Landmark Obamacare suit filed: Does cutting workers’ hours violate ERISA?

by Jared Bilski

If they’re going to force us to offer health care to all full-time employees, then we’ll just cut workers’ hours. That’s an Obamacare strategy many firms have threatened to carry out, and one that has resulted in a class-action lawsuit for a restaurant chain that actually did.

Dave & Buster’s (D&B) is now facing a class-action lawsuit claiming the company reduced its full-time employees’ hours as a direct result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Here’s some background on the lawsuit: D&B employee Maria De Lourdes Parra Marrin — on behalf of herself and all other affected employees — claims that the restaurant involuntarily cut workers hours starting in 2013 up until the present.

As a result of the reduction, employees either lost their coverage under the company’s health plan — or were moved into inferior coverage.

Marin claims her weekly hours were cut from 30 to 45 to just 10 to 25.

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