Interesting reflection on this topic in Washington Post blog. Survey suggests that perhaps 4% of employers with more than 50 FTE are decreasing workers’ hours to avoid fines if they don’t provide health insurance. The rest appear to value a higher skilled workforce and need to be attentive to customer satisfaction so that sending workers home mid shift while clients still need services may serve as sufficient deterrent. It’s curious that some of the largest employers to already impose these cutbacks in workers’ hours are school districts and other county services across the country.