Posted on 02/09/2013 11:14:45 PM PST by Nachum
The costs of Obamacare are not just hitting businesses this year--they are also hitting the government, and public employees as well. Virginia, for example, is about to limit part-time employees to 29 hours per week in order to avoid triggering Obamacare’s requirement that employers provide health insurance to those working 30 hours per week or more. The state cannot afford the $110 million annual cost of insurance.
Elsewhere, public institutions are taking similar steps to limit part-time work. In Ohio, Youngstown State University recently announced a 29-hour-per-week part-time limit, and placed employees on notice that they would be fired if they worked more than the maximum. Other public universities are doing the same across the nation, just as their private-sector counterparts are limiting part-time hours to avoid the Obamacare rule.
In addition to limiting part-time hours, many institutions--public and private--are moving employees from full-time to part-time status to avoid Obamacare requirements. Doing so means facing the ire of left-wing institutions such as John Podesta’s Think Progress, which recently castigated a Wendy’s franchise for cutting employees’ hours. Yet there is little most businesses can do--they are merely responding to incentives written into law.
As the economic reality of Obamacare begins to bite, Democrats are uneasy with the legislation they forced through Congress in 2010, and which survived at the Supreme Court only because Chief Justice John Roberts saw fit to rewrite it. At a recent retreat for House Democrats, former President Bill Clinton advised his party to lead the way in pushing for changes to Obamacare, so they could “[p]rove that we were right to do it.”
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Nachum...do you ever sleep?
(You’re the best.)
Welcome to the 28 hour work week.
Sleep? I love sleep. When I can get it. :)
too bad the IRS has a formula that says if you have “X” of full time employees out of a total of “Y”, you are in fact providing full time employment and all employees must be covered.
Why do I get the feeling that DC is the last place the ragheads would set of a sneak nuke?
I think they have figured out that they are allies in the war against judeo christian morality with the degenerate American political class.
Elsewhere, public institutions are taking similar steps to limit part-time work.
... so, "We're not gonna take it." Get it?
Workin’ for a livin’
I don't get it.
Sounds like what Walmart does to avoid having to pay its own rather substandard medical insurance.
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Well, states that opt out of Obamacare are exempt from the employer mandate so there is (or was) a recourse for these workers to lobby their own government.
Well, if nothing else, this will keep inflation down.
“....is about to limit part-time employees to 29 hours per week in order to avoid triggering Obamacare’s requirement that employers provide health insurance to those working 30 hours per week or more.”
Here come the suits claiming racial discrimination against the states, since a majority of government employees seem to be from minorities.
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The Universities in Idaho have hired “temporary” or “part-time” workers (under 20 hours per week or less than 6 months per year) for years to avoid paying benefits and to get around any sort of testing and ranking of applicants (although the State has pretty much tossed the objective merit hiring laws).
The fun comes when temporary/part-time employees are asked to work off the clock, adjust written time cards by shifting hours worked, etc. and the auditor has to go in and deal with the mess after a “disgruntled employee” reports it.
The Commonwealth of Virginia is doing the same.
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