We’ve gone over this before, but it’s worth repeating. Obamacare is forcing employers all across the United States to cut the number of hours employees can work in order to stay in business and remain profitable.
When my better half told me that her boss was thinking about cutting all full-time employees to part time in order to avoid the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act insurance requirements (for full-time employees), my initial response was, “Surely the federal government wouldn’t have allowed such a blatantly obvious way of getting out of the requirement.” But that turned out to be false.
In fact, major names in the service/hospitality industry (e.g., Denny’s, Olive Garden, Red Lobster and Longhorn Steakhouse) are already in the process of going to a part-time employee schedule for all employees. Thus, as a very possible consequence of the short-sightedness of the Affordable Care Act legislators, more people will be working two jobs to make ends meet.
Yet acquiring a second part-time job may be an impossibility for a large number of service/hospitality employees. (Read More)
It isn’t just the hospitality industry, either. Community colleges and small to medium sized businesses are all going to have to rethink their business models. The reelection of Obama pretty much sealed the deal. If you think the economy is bad now, just wait. But it’s not like nobody saw this coming, as Smitty said, “Sow crap policy, reap policy crap.”
In sort-of related news, did you see the Black Friday headlines from earlier today? Via Drudge, it wasn’t pretty out there.
Man Punched in Face Pulls Gun On Line-Cutting Shopper...
Shots fired outside WALMART...
Shoppers smash through door at URBAN OUTFITTERS...
Customers run over in parking lot...
Woman busted after throwing merchandise...
Thousands storm VICTORIA'S SECRET...
VIDEO: Insane battle over phones...
Mayhem at Nebraska mall where 9 murdered in 2007...
Shoplifter tries to mace security guards...
Men Steal Boy's Shopping Bag Outside BED, BATH & BEYOND...
Heckler calls them zombies...
Just wait until next year and see what it’s going to be like after they raise all of our taxes and more workers are pushed into part time jobs.
But you posit that the goal is to destroy the middle class, it makes sense and they won’t mind a’tall. Just wait: they’ll pass a law that says you can’t have part time workers, and another law that says you can’t go out of business…..Atlas Shrugged, anyone?
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I worry about this as well. I work for a company that has about 120 workers and I wonder if there will be any cuts. I see the insurance rates are going up and with the higher tax rates it will really bite into my income.
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You voted for Obama , you get what you deserve. Come try and take what I earned. Not gonna happen.
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Banzai Bob:
My son owns a company in Dallas. He said once that he couldn’t have more than 50 full time employees because of regulations, taxes, you name it, so he doesn’t.
His employees – mostly being either programmers, graphic artists or level designers – enjoy the total package: full-time work, world-class medical coverage, retirement plans, profit sharing, everv holiday on the books, paid vacations, you name it. They are indeed a spoiled lot.
That is now becoming ancient history as the Obama world of massive bureacracy, regulation and new taxes comes a-knocking at their front door.
You, being in a company of more than 50, are far more exposed than my son and his employees.
My son no longer talks to me about how business is. His response nowadays is, “You don’t want to know”.
A while back, he needed a divider wall installed in a portion of the work space, a wall three feet high and fifteen feet long. It would consist of a steel-stud 2×4 frame covered with sheetrock, textured and painted. By the time the city planning commission, the fire department, the inspectors, the Unions and the building owner were done, that wall cost over $40,000. He had to satisy electrical requirements(there was no electricy in the wall), plumbing requirments(there was no plumbing in this wall), fire safety requirements( a few metal 2×4′s covered by sheetrock), mechanical requirements(stress loads and the like for non-bearing walls), EPA and OSHA minimums on monitoring for any airborne contaminents during the construction phase.), just to name a few. He had to have a licensed architect draw up the construction plans for this simple halfwall. City planners had to approve these plans. City inspectors were always coming by to make certain all the conditions listed in the building permit were being observed and followed.
The actual finished wall cost about $400 in materials and about $1,200 in labor. the rest of the cost was generated by that army of frigging bureaucrats and their reams of regulations. That was for just a damned room divider.
This army of bureaucrats will grow beyond comprehension under Obama and the Marxists.
Who can operate in that sort of enviornment? Who wants to?
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The only true way to save the healthcare industry in Ameria is get the government, and employers, out of the insurance industry. Comprehensive insurance is the driving force behind the high costs. Get rid of it. Let people shop for their individual policies, tailored to their specific needs. I am amazed that no in government even suggests such a concept as individual responsibility.
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Seems to me that he could have saved a lot of money by buying temporary doom dividers!
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