Obamacare Strikes Again!!!

[Ibanez]

The predictions and fears of the Affordable Care Act’s adversaries have begun to materialize, specifically fears that the law will encourage employers to demote their employees to part-time positions in order to evade federal health care requirements. Popular clothing company Forever 21 is the first of what might be many companies to limit its non-management workers’ hours to 29.5 a week, just below the 30-hour minimum that the ACA deems full-time work.

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What a goat rope.

[YoUDeeMan]

The predictions and fears of the Affordable Care Act’s adversaries have begun to materialize, specifically fears that the law will encourage employers to demote their employees to part-time positions in order to evade federal health care requirements. Popular clothing company Forever 21 is the first of what might be many companies to limit its non-management workers’ hours to 29.5 a week, just below the 30-hour minimum that the ACA deems full-time work.

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What a goat rope.

Another funny thing...colleges are cutting. And the dopey liberal college Dumbocrat employees that supported Obama are now crying and saying they never thought they'd be negatively impacted.

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"At St. Petersburg College, a public university in Florida where most of the faculty is part-time, 250 have had their hours reduced for the fall term because the college said it can’t afford to offer them health insurance.

St Petersburg’s president, Dr. Bill Law, said providing health care for the 250 adjunct professors would cost more than $777,000 dollars a year. "The cost associated with making a part-timer benefits-eligible really is not available to us as a public college,” said Law.

"I don't think anyone [passed the law] so they could make our life worse,” said Law. “They did it because people need access to health care."

Part-time math professor Tracey Sullivan said she will lose half her income because of the cuts.

"I never thought it would impact me directly,” said Sullivan. “I was stunned when I got the email...I love teaching at St. Pete College but that is a significant cut."'

"The White House dismisses such examples as "anecdotal." Jason Furman, chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisors, said, “We are seeing no systematic evidence that the Affordable Care Act is having an adverse impact on job growth or the number of hours employees are working. … [S]ince the ACA became law, nearly 90 percent of the gain in employment has been in full-time positions.”

But the president of an influential union that supports Obamacare said the White House is wrong.

"It IS happening," insisted Joseph Hansen, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which has 1.2 million members. "Wait a year. You'll see tremendous impact as workers have their hours reduced and their incomes reduced. The facts are already starting to show up. Their statistics, I think, are a little behind the time."

In a letter to Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, Hansen joined other labor chieftains in warning that the ACA as presently written could “destroy the foundation of the 40-hour work week that is the backbone of the middle class.”

NBC News spoke with almost 20 small businesses and other entities from Maine to California, and almost all said that because of the new law they’d be cutting back hours for some employees – an unintended consequence of the new law."



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[Chizzang]

The predictions and fears of the Affordable Care Act’s adversaries have begun to materialize, specifically fears that the law will encourage employers to demote their employees to part-time positions in order to evade federal health care requirements. Popular clothing company Forever 21 is the first of what might be many companies to limit its non-management workers’ hours to 29.5 a week, just below the 30-hour minimum that the ACA deems full-time work.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/59981 ... yees-hours" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What a goat rope.

I've got a little secret for you...
Companies (for 30 years now) already reduce employees house to keep from paying their Health Care
This is just a different (see NEW) set of guideline 29.5 hrs from the same old problem



This is an ancient problem / See Wal-Mart
The master at managing profits by manipulating employee benefits

[Ibanez]

http://www.policymic.com/articles/59981 ... yees-hours" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What a goat rope.

I've got a little secret for you...
Companies (for 30 years now) already reduce employees house to keep from paying their Health Care
This is just a different (see NEW) set of guideline 29.5 hrs from the same old problem



This is an ancient problem / See Wal-Mart
The master at managing profits by manipulating employee benefits

Defense companies will routinely drop health benefits in order to deliver low proposals. My brother had dental insurance one day, a new contract was awarded and a week later he didn't have it any more.

[Chizzang]

I've got a little secret for you...
Companies (for 30 years now) already reduce employees house to keep from paying their Health Care
This is just a different (see NEW) set of guideline 29.5 hrs from the same old problem



This is an ancient problem / See Wal-Mart
The master at managing profits by manipulating employee benefits

Defense companies will routinely drop health benefits in order to deliver low proposals. My brother had dental insurance one day, a new contract was awarded and a week later he didn't have it any more.

Bingo..!!!

[ASUMountaineer]

http://www.policymic.com/articles/59981 ... yees-hours" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

What a goat rope.

I've got a little secret for you...
Companies (for 30 years now) already reduce employees house to keep from paying their Health Care
This is just a different (see NEW) set of guideline 29.5 hrs from the same old problem



This is an ancient problem / See Wal-Mart
The master at managing profits by manipulating employee benefits

The difference being that this was supposed to fix a problem, not exacerbate current problems.