Posted on 11/10/2012 2:58:24 PM PST by grundle
Some low-wage employers are moving toward hiring part-time workers instead of full-time ones to mitigate the health-care overhaul's requirement that large companies provide health insurance for full-time workers or pay a fee.
Several restaurants, hotels and retailers have started or are preparing to limit schedules of hourly workers to below 30 hours a week. That is the threshold at which large employers in 2014 would have to offer workers a minimum level of insurance or pay a penalty starting at $2,000 for each worker.
Pillar Hotels & Resorts this summer began to focus more on hiring part-time workers among its 5,500 employees, said Chief Executive Chris Russell. The company has 210 franchise hotels, under the Sheraton, Fairfield Inns, Hampton Inns and Holiday Inns brands.
"The tendency is to say, 'Let me fill this position with a 40-hour-a-week employee.' "Mr. Russell said. "I think we have to think differently."
Pillar offers health insurance to employees who work 32 hours a week or more, but only half take it, and Mr. Russell wants to limit his exposure to rising health-care costs. He said he planned to pursue new segments of the population, such as senior citizens, to find workers willing to accept part-time employment.
CKE Restaurants Inc., parent of the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's burger chains, began two months ago to hire part-time workers to replace full-time employees who left, said Andy Puzder, CEO of the Carpinteria, Calif., company. CKE, which is owned by private-equity firm Apollo Management LP, offers limited-benefit plans to all restaurant employees, but the federal government won't allow those policies to be sold starting in 2014 because of low caps on payouts.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services said the administration didn't believe the law would substantially affect employment
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Dang fat fingers
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I don’t know all the details about 1099 status. I was simply reporting what I overheard. I think lots of businesses will also start paying under the table. We all lose.
The lessons of Hoover’s Recession and FDR’s Great Depression are intentionally mistaught. Who will tell the people?
A black Walmart employee told me the other day - let the rich pay, they can afford it. I sure cant.
Will he relate his lowered work hours or unemployment to actions taken on his “behalf” by caring Democrats. Nope.
Yep. The Obamanation wants all of us dependent on the government rather than dependent on God. He said so way back in the ‘08 campaign.
The farther from November 6th we've gone, the more I'm starting to see the cracks in the Democrat's firewall. I'm really beginning to believe there was a massive, organized effort to defraud the election process, and your comment made me realize something...
When Obamacare passed, over 70% of Floridians were against it and called for Tallahassee to pass a law stating we won't comply. It was put in as a Constitutional ballot initiative (Amendment 1) but went down in flames on Election day.
In addition, despite Obama winning the popular vote by a hair in Florida, an overwhelming majority of precincts voted to keep existing or bring in new Republican state senators and congressmen. It's almost as if they focused solely on defrauding the Presidential ballot and the amendment for Obamacare but left the rest of the ballot alone.
You may be able to boil the pot slowly to cook the frog, but at some point the frog's going to realize that something's up and is going to get mad as Hell. I think we're going to see widespread violence in America before New Years.
Boy. That is kind of the nut of the problem, eh?
Look up Liz Fowler. She was health care counsel or some stupid adviser to Senator Bachus. She was a policy wonk at Wellpoint.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the law always that if a person worked 30 hours or more the company had to pay benefits. So what do the brainiacs in congress and the white house do? The put the magic number at 30. Like companies couldn’t figure that out.
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