Amazon’s Whole Foods is cutting health care benefits for part-timers - Chicago Tribune

By Joseph Pisani

Associated Press |

Sep 13, 2019 | 1:41 PM

| New York

The Whole Foods Market at West 63rd and South Halsted streets in Chicago is seen in 2016. Whole Foods is cutting health care benefits for its part-time workers. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)

Whole Foods, the grocery chain owned by Amazon, is cutting health care benefits for its part-time workers, a move that could leave about 1,900 of its employees without medical coverage.

Starting next year, Whole Foods employees have to work at least 30 hours a week to qualify for its health care benefits, up from the 20 hours a week it currently requires.

The grocer, which has about 95,000 workers, says it's making the change "to better meet the needs of our business and create a more equitable and efficient scheduling model."

News of the benefits change was first reported by Business Insider.

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