Employer changes to adjunct faculty workloads and the Affordable Care Act

The table below chronicles the institutions found to have restricted the work assignments of adjunct or part-time faculty in order to avoid Affordable Care Act (ACA) requirements to provide health insurance to employees working more than 30 hours a week. For more on what ACA means for faculty return to the overview page.

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Laura Ecklin,
Dean of Human Resources

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"College limits part-time staff’s hours to avoid Obamacare costs" - Aspen Daily News, 3/17/14

--“KVCC part-time instructors union files unfair labor charge against the community college” - Michigan Live - 04/29/2013
--“KVCC part-time faculty union fends off potential job cuts, negotiates new maximum work load to comply with Affordable Care Act” – union press release 6/12/2013
--“KVCC part-time instructors' union to drop unfair labor practice charge against community college” – Michigan Live -6/12/2013