In order to ensure Americans understand how to access the benefits available to them when many provisions of the Affordable Care Act go online October 1, the Obama administration announced last month that it is setting up a call center that will be accessible to Americans 24 hours a day.
One branch of that call center will be located in California’s
Contra Costa County, where, reportedly, 7,000 people applied for the 204 jobs.
According to the Contra Costa Times, however, “about half the jobs are
part-time, with no health benefits — a stinging disappointment to workers and
local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time.” The county
supervisor, Karen Mitchoff, called the hiring process “a comedy of errors” and
said she “never dreamed [the jobs] would be part-time.”
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