Staples threatens to fire employees who work more than 25 hours a week

Business Insider ^ | 2/9/15 | Ashley Lutz

[bolobaby]

It’s obviously big evil corporate staples fault.

[Balding_Eagle]

Companies who try to hide their motivations do everyone a disservice

The dilemma is that those who don't become the target of Big Government.

[bert]

The universal thirty hour week was the goal all along. Obamacare does the French one better by making our work week 30 hours rather than the French 35 hour week.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I’m only allowed to schedule people for 29 hours a week - tops. Above minimum pay, but no benefits.

This past year they dropped the Flex Plan for ‘part-time’ employees and reduced my once $1,300.00 Flex plan down to $500.00.

All due to ‘complying’ with Obamacare. It has been a nightmare in so many ways...but we’re still getting the job done - which amazes me every day. (I have an awesome staff who, ‘get it.’)

[Nepeta]

Not my experience when I was there. I worked 12 hours a day sometimes for 9 or 10 days straight without a day off and it was mandatory. If you didn’t like it, too bad. I finally retired at 58 last year. They were also very strict about being there off the clock for any reason. It was never allowed.

The company culture varied from site to site. This went on in what was then Health Care at Sharon Woods Technical Center in the 1980s. The entire hourly analytical group sometimes showed up on Saturdays, unpaid. It was the only way to get a good rating.

[Nepeta]

Anyone who has supervised full-time hourly employees understands that they are protected from the egregious abuse of “unpaid overtime” often heaped on salaried employees; we had to make sure they took their scheduled lunches and left on time to avoid having to pay overtime. Companies that failed to take these steps lost a lot of money in court after laying such employees off; when the employees could prove they had worked extra hours (often over the span of years), they were awarded overtime pay for it - and they deserved it.

Some companies really are above the law, & P&G is one of them. When Alecia Swasy's book Soap Opera was released in the 1980s, the company wanted to know who had talked to her, so they asked Cincinnati Bell for employees' phone records--and got them, with no legal consequences.

[riverdawg]

“I’m only allowed to schedule people for 29 hours a week - tops. Above minimum pay, but no benefits.

All due to ‘complying’ with Obamacare.”

The local state university used to pay full benefits, including subsidized health insurance, to all employees working 20 hours or more per week. Because of the cost of the Obamacare-mandated benefits, the university “complied” with the law by eliminating benefits for most of the people working 20-29 hours per week. Some people previously working between 20 and 29 hours per week were fired, and a few were given enough hours to get them to 30 hours and keep their benefits. Overall, it’s been a fiasco for the vast majority of the part-timers.

[GailA]

Papa John’s has no health ins plan even for their managers who put in 10 hrs 5 days a week, much less the PT workers.

[__rvx86]

I read a few months ago that a woman with (3?) part-time jobs was so exhausted, she accidentally left a gas can inside her car.

It vented, and when she took a nap inside the car, waiting to start one of her jobs, she suffocated as the alcohol and volatile hydrocarbon fractions displaced the oxygen inside the cabin.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Same thing at my wife's supermarket. No official policy, but everyone's hours have been cut.

That's fundamental transformation for ya.

[uncitizen]

This prevents joblock baby. Yeahhhhhh, you get to use those extra 15 hours a week sculpting and painting and whatnot. What happened to “joblock”? How come nobody talks about it anymore?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

It’s hard. In one sense, I’ve been able to cut the fat which helps my bottom line, and also shed some workers I was ‘stuck’ with form a previous manager.

BUT - that’s nothing I wouldn’t have done, anyway - it just forced my hand.

We’re ALL Free Agents - more so now than ever.

[GeronL]

The headline also describes the far-left, IMO

[GeronL]

wrong thread, lol

[GeronL]

It is illegal to “donate” work, off the clock

[ErnBatavia]

I’ll have to check that out.

I'm pretty sure you'll find out it isn't true...

[MrB]

I don’t know if this applies to staples or not, but a lot of businesses have been threatened to not disclose policies that change based on the aca.

[GSWarrior]

Most companies will fire employees who continually work more hours then they are scheduled. That’s why we have time clocks, etc.

[minnesota_bound]

Drudge Headline:
Large$t Healthcare Firm: Obamacare Working...

[Nachum]

Drudge Headline: Large$t Healthcare Firm: Obamacare Working...

Me, Obamacare insurance agent- Um.. not really.