I said this way back when Obamacare was first passed:
First THIS would happen. Reduction of hours to stay under the number required to provide full benefits. What else can a company do? It’s really not their fault. If the business model can’t support paying out that much money to employees then the answer is don’t do it. It’s either that or go out of business... and then there’s no part time jobs either.
Now... the NEXT thing that will happen:
Part time jobs will begin to have standard segmentation in a week. Either Mon-Wed Thu-Sun or possibly morning and afternoon shifts that revolve entirely around having employees be able to hop between jobs. Not because they wouldn’t rather work one job 40 hrs... NO! Because most jobs won’t ALLOW anyone to work more than 20. So a whole new “normal” work hours schedule will pop up so when you apply for multiple part time jobs everyone will use roughly the same schedules.
Just give it time. It’ll happen soon. And it’s pure lunacy.
God help the people that work two full jobs a week now. It’ll become more like 3 or 4 part time jobs on this crazy travel schedule all week long.
“It’ll become more like 3 or 4 part time jobs...”
But look on the bright side - Obama can claim that he has created more jobs! (Yes he already has, and this is why he can say that.)
And this will lead to more traffic deaths. People will become exhausted from working multiple jobs and driving extra miles from job to job.
Many people will drive 20 or more miles between jobs. They may have to wait around several hours to clock in. The employer won’t want them sitting around on the work floor so they may have to sit in their car in sub-freezing weather so a few might freeze to death.
ObamaCare will cost lives but mean employers will be blamed.
I think you’re an optimist on that.
The way I see it playing out is that companies are going to want to minimize the number of employees/paperwork while still staying within the 29 hour threshold. In decent-sized workforces It’s cheaper to have an employee and 1/3 of an employees time adding up to 40 hours than having two employees adding up to 40 hours.
The result is going to be take-it/leave-it offerings of a flat 29 hour position. That forces workers into a 2-job 58-hour work week. They’ll make more money than working 40 hours, but it’ll be by force of necessity and they won’t be eligible for overtime.
Just another example of how Obamacare is really a Corporatist policy.