How are full-time employees defined and do part-time or seasonal employees count toward the free-rider provision?
• Full-time employees are defined as those working at least 30 hours a week. Additional federal guidance is expected on how to calculate full time equivalents for employees who are not paid on an hourly basis. Businesses can employ over 50 employees (including part-time, seasonal and full-time) and not be counted as such as long as they don’t work longer than 120 days out of the calendar year. Seasonal workers are counted as full-time employees (for the purposes of determining whether a business employs 50 or more employees) if they work more than 120 calendars days in the year. Part-time employees are counted as “full-time equivalent” employees by dividing the total number of hours of service of employees who are not full-time employees for the month by 120.
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