Target To Cancel Health Insurance For Hundreds Of Md. Employees, Directs Them To Exchanges

Hundreds — if not thousands — of Maryland Target employees will lose their health insurance benefits April 1 and are being directed instead to health exchanges created through President Obama’s health care reform law. The national retail giant announced a new company-wide policy this week to discontinue health insurance coverage for all store part-time employees.

Target employs 7,700 people in 38 stores across Maryland, but Target would not disclose how many of those employees would be affected by the policy change.

“Since our part-time team members fluctuates often, we can’t disclose that information,” Target spokeswoman Jill Hornbacher wrote in an email. “What I can tell you though, is less than 10 percent of our total team member population participates in our part-time health care coverage.”
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