I know how the ACA is creating jobs, goodbye full-time positions

[madville]

It will be cheaper for employers to have two 28 hour per week employees than one 56 hour full-time employee, the part-timers will get no health insurance whereas the full-timer would. They also save money without the time-and-half overtime as well, win-win for the business owners.

[Skittles]

1. well gee they never could foresee THAT happening, could they?

or DID they?

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. That is exactly what just happened where my son works.

Eatin' good in the neighborhood.


Only allowed to have four full time employees is what management told the staff.

[JaneyVee]

2. So the employee is going to have to work 2 part time jobs?

[madville]

3. Exactly

Two 28 hour part-time employees cost less than one 56 hour full-time employee, same amount of labor.

[JaneyVee]

6. Are there really people who are going from 56 hour weeks to 28 hour weeks?

[Skittles]

4. part time and contract is where it is ALL headed

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/the-rise-of-part-time-work/

eventually you will have to essentially re-apply for your job every year

[JaneyVee]

7. Doesn't the ACA only apply to businesses with over 50 employees?

[Skittles]

10. why don't you Google and find out?

[JaneyVee]

12. Ugh, ...really? I guess.

[awoke_in_2003]

19. We will, one day...

be nothing but a glorified China.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. And pay for health coverage on top of not making a living wage

[JaneyVee]

9. Didn't the ACA expand medicaid to people under the poverty line?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

11. The poverty line is artificially low and well below a living wage

[awoke_in_2003]

20. If the only thing you can afford to eat...

is Ramen noodles, then you might be eligible for Medicaid.

[dsc]

5. this was a big, avoidable, mistake

companies should have been required to provide proportional benefits. 30 or more full, 25 or more 3/4, 20 or more 1/2, 15 or more 1/3, etc.

[KG]

13. ACA was always the wrong answer.

[msongs]

14. was that in the original republican plan it is based on like romneycare nt

[FarCenter]

15. Average weekly hours worked is currently 34.6 hours

Table B-2. Average weekly hours and overtime of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls by industry sector, seasonally adjusted

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t18.htm

Leisure and hospitality industry workers averaged 26.2.

[Fumesucker]

18. I would expect that to drop below 30 fairly shortly, probably well below n/t

[madville]

21. Government and healthcare seem to be

About the only full time careers left around here, and even some healthcare workers I know are having trouble finding full time work as well. I know a RN and a Radiology Tech that only have part time/contract positions, full time with benefits is getting scarce everywhere.

[HiPointDem]

23. health care is a *major* employer, ripe for a cull.

[FarCenter]

25. In a lot of companies, the size of payroll is fixed and set top down

Mid-level managers then have to decide whether they want fewer employees or more part timers in order to get the work done without going over their total employee compensation budget.

If you raise the price of labor, employers will buy less of it.

[gleannfia]

16. Yet another excellent

argument for Single Payer, which is the only answer anyway.

[Fumesucker]

17. I know a Pizza Hut "manager" that just had her hours cut to under 30

They generously gave her a twenty five cent raise.

[green for victory]

22. even Max Baucus is getting worried:"I just see a huge train wreck coming..."

because he's up for re-election

[FarCenter]

26. He may lose to Brian Schweitzer in the primary