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Another Obamacare surprise
PJ Media ^ | October 22, 2012 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 10/22/2012 6:57:24 AM PDT by SumProVita

Obamacare is a monumental house of horrors. Open a door and find another monster. Robert Samuelson opens the door on the law’s distinction between full-time and part-time workers. You think Obamacare might have something to do with suppressing the growth of full-time employment? Consider Samuelson’s observations.

(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: economy; employment; fulltime; jobs; obamacare; obamanomics; parttime; parttimejob; thedestroyers
Here's the link to Samuelson's article: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/22/obamacare_rhetoric_vs_reality_115851.html

Did you think it couldn't get any worse?

1 posted on 10/22/2012 6:57:29 AM PDT by SumProVita
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To: SumProVita

Basic summary:

- IRS defines full-time as working more than 30+ hours
- employers will balance hiring/training costs of more part-time workers VS. the savings of not having to pay for health insurance of full time workers.
- part timers will have reduced income unless they pick up a second job and will have reduced incentive to work at all
- Many restaurants are already looking at how to shift to part-time workers


2 posted on 10/22/2012 7:12:07 AM PDT by ChiefJayStrongbow
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To: ChiefJayStrongbow

- IRS defines full-time as working more than 30+ hours

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Could that also be a change? I seem to recall that part-time was thought to be less than 35 hours...?!


3 posted on 10/22/2012 7:20:07 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: SumProVita
My daughter has a 29.5 hour per week job. She'd like 40 or even 50 if she could find it. So she's looking for another part-time job. Most of her co-workers are in exactly the same situation, though their hours per week may be 20 or 25.

In today's labor market, employers where workers have a regular 29.5 hours per week aren't really fond of being flexible enough on their hours to accommodate another part-time job.

4 posted on 10/22/2012 7:51:48 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman

Single women are much more expensive to insure than young single men. I imagine this will also play into hiring practices. Another case of obama hurts women.


5 posted on 10/22/2012 7:57:06 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Vigilanteman
In today's labor market, employers where workers have a regular 29.5 hours per week aren't really fond of being flexible enough on their hours to accommodate another part-time job.

Exactly. Being stuck in a single part-time job will condemn a lot of people to poverty and government dependency. There are a lot of hourly workers who can make enough money to live on if they can consistently get full-time hours, but not if they work under 30 hours a week. When they can't support themselves fully, they'll be looking to keep their income under whatever threshold allows them to qualify for government help to fill the gap: food stamps, housing assistance, etc. Or they will drop out of the workforce altogether.

Either way, the shrinking pool of people with full-time jobs will be stuck paying the bills for more unemployed and underemployed people.

6 posted on 10/22/2012 8:20:33 AM PDT by FiscalSanity
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