The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, requires companies with more than 50 full-time employees (defined as working more than 30 hours a week) to provide health insurance that meets standards set by the Department of Health and Human Services.
This caused a noticeable (and duly noticed) one-off jump in the fraction of jobs defined as part-time (see chart).
Once women began to work, typically part-time, and once employees began to switch jobs, defined-benefit schemes became inequitable.
Well, for one, the products are still expensive, time-consuming and labor-intensive to create and without a defined market to sell into may not be worth the risk.
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Work, traditionally, has been a place you went to and spent a pre-defined amount of time at, in order to earn a livelihood.
For the first time, being Chinese-American no longer defined who I was.
That would put the UK back into a recession - technically defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction - for the third time in about four years.
They grieved for a time when leadership was defined by a single-minded, straightforward sense of purpose and direction.
According to Santiago, IAL CEO, we are living in a time when traditional home entertainment experiences are being significantly re-defined and enhanced.
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Perhaps only big-time fans will remember those whose hoop glory was defined by March Madness, and who have since gone on to varying degrees of success during life after basketball.
Surveying 543 business decision-makers, we found that boundaries of time and space that once defined the workplace no longer exist.
This is, of course, hardly the first time that French policy towards the United States has been defined by balance-of-power considerations.
The primary endpoint was the time to first major vascular event, defined as the composite of non-fatal MI or coronary death, any stroke or any arterial revascularization.
You begin to accept that, for better or worse, the old rules and rewards system is falling apart and the simple equation of exchanging your time and skills for a fixed salary and defined benefits over a 30-year period no longer adds up.
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It'll likely be ready in time for BT's own sports channel, although YouView mentioned a loosely-defined summer launch.
Several people asked me about gluten sensitivity after I mentioned it in my response on celiac disease several weeks ago, so I thought this would be a good time to expand further on this less well-known and much less well-defined condition.
If you take a step back and look at the SPY chart on a daily and even weekly time frame, the obvious pattern that jumps out at you is a wide, but well-defined, bear flag.
Along with seeming volatility and controversy, the long-term outcome likely will be an Israel defined by prosperity thought unimaginable only a short time ago.
At the time of the great Wall Street crash of 1929, 10, 000 companies in America had defined-contribution plans in place (although not in their present form).
In the Kubler-Ross model, the denial stage is defined as a starting point in the process, a time to process the loss.
The potential deal would give insurance companies a defined time period to make such changes in order to help cover more people and drive down long-term costs.
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