Recent Study Examines Health Coverage for Part-Time Workers

In "Trends in Health Coverage for Part-Time Workers, 1999–2012", the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) reports that:

"Overall, there were 20 million workers employed under 30 hours per week and 18.8 million employed 30–39 hours per week in 2012 (Figure 2). Among those employed fewer than 30 hours per week, 2.6 million (12.8 percent) had employment-based coverage from their own job. And among those employed between 30–39 hours per week, 6.3 million (33.6 percent) had employment-based coverage from their own job. In contrast, 60.5 percent of workers employed at least 40 hours per week had employment-based coverage from their own job.

In 2013, 25 percent of employers with three to 199 workers offered coverage to part-time workers, and 47 percent of employers with 200 or more workers offered it to part-time workers (Figure 4). Recently, the percentage of employers with 200 or more workers offering health benefits to part-time workers has been increasing. It increased from 39 percent in 2010 to 47 percent in 2013."

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