Under the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, “applicable large employers” must offer health insurance to their workers.
A company is an “applicable large employer” if it has at least 50 full-time or full-time equivalent employees. A full-time worker is one who works at least 30 hours per week. A full-time equivalent is two or more part-time employees whose hours add up to one full-time equivalent (two employees working 15 hours per week each would equal one full-time employee working 30 hours per week).
