Whole Foods to cut medical coverage for nearly 2,000 part-time employees


Whole Foods will eliminate medical benefits for part-time workers company-wide starting January 1.

As Business Insider reported last week, the grocery chain stated the health care cut was made “to better meet the needs of our business and create a more equitable and efficient scheduling model."

Whole Foods, which was acquired by Amazon in 2017, has more than 500 stores throughout the country, Canada and the UK, including four in Hawaii. The company has about 95,000 employees across all of its…

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