Posted on 04/15/2013 3:23:02 PM PDT by lowbridge
The nation's largest movie theater chain has cut the hours of thousands of employees, saying in a company memo that ObamaCare requirements are to blame.
Regal Entertainment Group, which operates more than 500 theaters in 38 states, last month rolled back shifts for non-salaried workers to 30 hours per week,putting them under the threshold at which employers are required to provide health insurance. The Nashville-based company said in a letter to managers that the move was a direct result of ObamaCare.
“In addition, some managers have requested guidance on what they should tell those employees negatively impacted and, at your discretion, we suggest the following,” read the memo obtained by FoxNews.com. “To comply with the Affordable Care Act, Regal had to increase our health care budget to cover those newly deemed eligible based on the law's definition of a full-time employee.”
“To manage this budget, all other employees will be scheduled in accord with business needs and in a manner that will not negatively impact our health care budget,” the message continues.
Regal, which had revenue of $2.8 billion in 2011, is the latest company to respond this way to the Affordable Health Care Act's requirement that employees at companies of a certain size who work more than 30 hours per week be provided health coverage. Applebee's and Olive Garden also scaled back the hours of workers. A handful of colleges have cut hours because of the law, including Palm Beach State College in Florida and New Jersey’s Kean University. Critics say the law is boomeranging on working folks.
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That has been on-going due to the trash that Hollywierd puts out.
When will these jackasses in government learn you can’t control people? If you outlaw guns with pistol grips they will make guns without pistol grips. If you call 30 hour employees “full-time” they will be given 29 hours or less. If you outlaw 32 ounce sodas they will buy two 16 oz sodas. Hang it up, morons, nobody is buying your attempt to control every facet of American society. GTFO of our lives.
They’re doing it to get more people on the government rolls. This is all by design. Don’t give them any of your doubt. This is Cloward-Piven and Alinksy by the book.
These kids will become “disenfranchised,” tax rolls will plummet, more people will rely on the government for EVERYTHING from paying their mortgage, their student loan debts, their food, to putting fuel in their vehicles or justifying more mass transit (a liberal utopian vehicle).
The company I work for told us about a month ago... good ole
AMERICAN GREETINGS....
How would hollyweird pay liberal actors, directors, and blige writers if nobody went to their garbage?
Even if conservatives (over 40% of population) stopped going to the movies and I suspect many have, we could really starve the monkeys pretty hard, I think. They’d at least have to cut back on the volume of crap they spew out each year.
I hope these employees remember that not a single Republican voted for monstrosity!
Just the beginning. Come fall, the S will HTF.
Some people at my office got their hours cut in half because of this.
They were all big O-bots, so I’m all smiles.
Tax-payer funded bailouts. Too big to fail, and all that...
IIRC, Regal is owned and/or run by a man who is a Christian. Not a phony, but a real Christian...
Some people at my office got their hours cut in half because of this.
They were all big O-bots, so I’m all smiles.
What are they saying about it?
If they voted for the MARXIST they don’t deserve a job. Except maybe cleaning sewers.
I thought I read an article recently about a guy who had taken over Regal and made a ton of money then became a Congressperson. When Obamacare appeared to be dying he wrote a letter basically demanding that O’care be brought back to life and this jumpstarted the monster again.
Wish I could remember the guys name but after reading the article I just wished he had kept his big mouth shut.
The plan won't work, because citizens can and will play the fake ID game. They will buy them from those who supply the illegals!
And as everything in society gets even more corrupted, in direct response to the directives of our “leaders”,businesses will close,violence will escalate and we will cease to exist as a country.
Oh, don't look at me, I'm too old and too long a member of the working poor to change.
But....musn’t snitch, right? LOL!
“Critics say the law is boomeranging on working folks.”
Unfortunately its not boomeranging on just the folk that voted for and supported it.
Blame a liberal if you can’t get enough work to get by or are stuck in a dead-end under-preforming job.
Our politicians should be practicing how to explain the truth on this subject, in hopes of holding the House majority in 2014.
Food & fuel prices up?
Health insurance premiums up,
or no longer eligible?
Taxes up?
Hours down?
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