California bill penalizes companies for reducing employee hours under ObamaCare

http://leginfo.ca.gov/ ^ | May 9, 2013 | Jimmy Gomez

[Vince Ferrer]

230.9. (a) It shall be unlawful for a large employer, as defined in Section 14199.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to designate an employee as an independent contractor or temporary employee, reduce an employee's hours of work, or terminate an employee if the purpose of the action is to avoid the employer's obligations under Article 7 (commencing with Section 14199) of Chapter 7 of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

[Vince Ferrer]

The bill is called AB 880, amended by Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez (Tyrrany - Los Angeles). If this passes, there are only three options for business, survive if they can, leave California, or go out of business. And this makes it harder for the survival option.

[Bullish]

Just do what all the other businesses are doing... Pack it up and leave.

California’s politicians are too stupid to even deserve any economy.

[Olog-hai]

Texas is about to get a whole lot busier.

[CaspersGh0sts]

if the purpose of the action is to avoid the employer's obligations

Good luck proving that. No employer would be dumb enough to admit as much.

[South40]

This is a job-killer for sure. libs should be proud.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Low tier public servants trying to run other people’s businesses now. Not very bright. I imagine Jimmy Gomez is one of those low information/not very bright people who can’t find a REAL job.

[G Larry]

Now employers know, they have to cut back before this IDIOTIC BILL goes into effect.

Of course California isn’t constrained by ex post facto, and will try to make the law retroactive.....

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Excellent. It should be called the Zero-Employment bill.

[Arthurio]

This will enable private suits on the issue. Another gold mine for lawyers who do employment litigation. Such a shame.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I wouldn’t be surprised to see the CA legislature one day pass a bill that will not allow businesses to leave.

[Jet Jaguar]

For the list.

[Empireoftheatom48]

Time to go Galt!

[coloradan]

It shall be a crime to attempt to comply with the law, by taking an action that creates a legal exemption from the law.

[Nifster]

so glad I am leaving in 19 days

[Wanderer99]

There is actually a silver lining to this story:

Once idiot leftists finish ruining their communities, the last remaining sane states will DOMINATE the economy...assuming that they have the guts to rebel against them.

[Bernard Marx]

It’s already being discussed in the form of a “departure tax,” last I heard. Can’t recall the source but I know I read about it somewhere.

[faithhopecharity]

This is an example of the political poison that’s given Californicate the highest unemployment rate (except only nevada). Plus 3 times its “share” of people on the dole. No sane business or investor puts money into Calif anymore (excepting computer programming and much of the growth in that is now overseas).

[The Antiyuppie]

Well...who could have seen this coming. The next step is that employers will be forced to hire a certain number of workers.

I worked for a company that bought an Italian company in the 80’s. At the time (I don’t know what things are like now), the labor laws in Italy were so onerous that you essentially had to have several witness see an employee murder a co-worker in order to fire them immediately. So, this particular company had no “employees” other than the officers - everyone else worked as subcontractors as defined by their legal system! I wonder if such legal machinations are the next unintended consequences of Obamacare.

[PeevedPatriot]

... if the purpose of the action is to avoid the employer's obligations under Article 7

Then fire 'em because they voted for Obama ;)

[SpaceBar]

They’re going to destroy that state if it’s the last thing they do.