DCG posted: " Campus Reform: Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) is
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Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare. In an email last
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Campus Reform <http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5854>: Middle Tennessee
State University (MTSU) *is restricting student work because of compliance
issues associated with the Affordable Care Act* (ACA), commonly known as
Obamacare.
In an email last week, MTSU President Sidney McPhee explained that “due to
our interpretation of the reporting requirements of ACA,” graduate
assistants, adjunct faculty members, and resident assistants *are barred
from working on-campus jobs that exceed 29 hours of work per week*.
*Now, they cannot take on multiple campus jobs.*
“[E]ffective beginning with the fall semester,* we will no longer allow
part-time employees, or those receiving monthly stipends from the
university, to accept multiple work assignments on campus*," the email
stated. McPhee noted that violations of the law “could add up as high as $6
million” in penalties.
The *Daily News Journal* reports
<http://www.dnj.com/story/news/2014/08/17/mtsu-limit-hours-part-time-workers/14213451/>
that *graduate assistants are now restricted from picking up research work
funded through grants to the university*.
Michael Fletcher, a Ph. D. History student, told the Daily News Journal
that his job as a graduate assistant, a position that pays only $14,000
annually, requires a 20-hour work week, but *he is unable to attain
on-campus grant-funded research positions like many assistants do*.
“Last spring because of the ACA, the HR department issued a policy that the
most we could work is 29 hours, which would be 9 hours above our
assistantships. Now they're saying we can't do that anymore," Fletcher told
the *Daily News Journal*.
As *Campus Reform* previously reported <http://campusreform.org/?ID=5813>,
the *University of Kansas has reduced the number of hours student employees
can work from 30 hours per week to 20, a move to ensure compliance with the
ACA*.
“The revised [KU] policy seeks to balance the necessity for students to
make academic progress while managing potential fiscal liabilities with
ACA,” Diane Goddard, KU vice provost for administration and finance wrote
in an email early this month.
*Capping hours associated with on-campus employment is quickly becoming the
norm.* Since 2012, *at least 111 colleges and universities have limited
adjunct professor course loads, capped student employment hours, or reduced
hours for part-time faculty* according to a list compiled by *Investor’s
Business Daily*
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