In most states the employer determines what is full time. 30 hours is not an unusual standard.

Well, a whole bunch of people are going to be reduced to 29 hour work weeks. Way to go democrats.

#2 beat me to it.

I have been in the work force for 45 years and have never classified, known or hired a full time employee at a standard of 30 hours of work per week.

That's why the entire Obamination needs to be repealed on Jan 22, 2013 by the new conservative majorities in the house and senate and said repeal signed by President Romney if that is necessary. We don't want to save parts of it. We want government out of our healthcare - and out of our lives.

Well, it looks like 29 hours a week is the new normal...

Working 30 hours a week may be full time on our current president's weekly schedule but it surely isn't enough hours for most workers to meet their expenses. He should see that his UAW buddies get dropped to 30 hours per week and see how many votes that gets him.

The dictator-in-Chief has spoken and workers will obey. How could America be so foolish as to elect this fraud? This is absurd.

Considering the work ethic of this president, I'd expect more than 25 hours to be considered overtime.

IIRC, the FRENCH consider full-time employment as 35 hours per week. Does obama and obamacare suck or what?

It will be cheaper for an employer to drop all health care insurance and pay a $750.00 fine per employee, as current employer costs for health care insurance are a lot more then $750.00 per year per employee, so employers will save a lot of money by paying a fine and just dropping all their employee health insurance.

This Obama Care is just an incremental step towards a single payer government run health care system, but first Obama and the liberal Democrats have to knock out employer provided health insurance, and this is the way they are trying to do that. A lot of people are about to find out that Obama's promise that they could keep their health care insurance and their doctor is worth about as much as a cheap 5 cent cigar.

Oh, man.

If that's right, I shoulda gone home Wednesday after work a lot of weeks.

Great, the _____ democrats have turned us into France. As if we didn't already have it hard enough competing with the rest of the world.

The thirty hours was something already in place for insurance purposes in some states.

This will ensure no small business expands to 50 employees. It has already caused many workers to be terminated or receive less hours, but what is really happening is more will apply for welfare and Medicaid. The end result will be more foreclosures.

The burden will fall on states.

I guess then every employer should now allow every hired individual as an independent contractor. Income, taxes, health care, pensions, IRAs, etc. are that individuals' responsibility. Have fun IRS with 1099 filings.

Full time is 40 hrs a week. Overtime is paid for over 40 hours a week or anything over 8 hrs per day. Thats how it is in California.....or was when I had to make payroll.

There is a Mexican saying that translates:
Work slow so that there will be work for many.

At least slow Mexicans get the job done. More than I can say for the likes of Obama. Three workers 1 shovel is this administrations policy.

Great. Welcome to France.

There's been a huge movement towards job simplification for a long time now to cut down on screw ups and trainng new employees expenses.This job simplification allows businesses to hire temps to contribute right off the bat.

What this rule will do besides cut people's hours,is have less people insured,more under the table and temp workers.
The left is totally oblivious to human dynamics and reaction.

When they raise taxes on the rich and the rich move somewhere else,the left just says "Ah,they were going to move anyway".

It's my understanding that unions got a 10-15 year waiver from Obamacare in the bill.

We're still finding out what's in the Obamacare bill. Wonder what's next.

Most insurance companies already view 30 hours per week as full-time for the purposes of providing insurance. This has never been the same definition as for overtime pay. Nothing new here...except that the writer wasn't aware of this.

Oh Gee, we just changed our corporate makeup. We're now made up of hundreds of sub-corporations, each running one store and each has 49 employees working 29 hours for one corp and 11 for another. We can play this game too!

Obama hasn't worked, outside campaigning, for 30 hours a week in his entire life.

I wish I could work 30 hours a week. I wish I could work only 40 hours a week! But working on salary usually means at least 45 - 50 hours, if not more.