Restaurants fight 30-hour rule in health care law

San Francisco Chronicle: Restaurant owners have serious issues with the Affordable Care Act.

The sticking point for many is the legal definition of a full-time worker as anyone averaging at least 30 hours a week on the job. By 2015, any company with more than 50 such employees (including "full-time equivalent employees," according to the law) will have to offer health benefits. Last week, restaurant execs met with Congress in a lobbying effort to eliminate the 30-hour rule.

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