Then insurance rates go up for everyone. A Put a health care tax on workers who are not provided with health care benefits. With a tax, companies would not have a monitary incentive to replace full time workers with part time workers. Charge the tax per hour worked. The business should pay the tax.
Workers still make minimum wage or more.
18 per hour. To prevent many labor intensive business from having a dramatic jump in costs, phase in the tax. Then raise it pennies a year with inflation. The money could be collected by the state income tax division. Businesses file a monthly or quarterly state income tax form.