This means that existing employees may continue to accrue benefits on a schedule that the state has decided is unaffordable and unnecessary to recruit and retain a workforce, in many cases for decades to come.
For many people, the health-plan tax break is more valuable than the highly popular mortgage-interest deduction on Schedule A, says Kelly Davis, an employee-benefits specialist at accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen.
He has regained all his weight but continues injecting growth hormone because of its apparent benefits, allowing him to maintain his usual 60-hour-a-week schedule.
Are there ways that businesses can help part-time workers to pursue higher education, perhaps by providing access to health benefits or by offering more predictable working hours so that would-be students can more easily schedule their classes?