Apple has side-stepped existing debate concerning whether all Americans should be given a chance at affordable health insurance - by extending full-benefit medical insurance to part-time employees starting from January 2010.
This may not seem a huge deal to UK readers, but in the US health insurance is essential, while the kind of salary part-time and unemployed citizens attracts means access to the insurance and non-welfare health care is denied to these groups.
IFOAppleStore (experts on matters in Apple retail), reports: “According to sources, the benefits now offered only to full-time employees, including those who work at the retail stores, will be offered to those working as fe
