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Obamacare Redefines 'Full Time' Employment As 30 Hours A Week
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | 12 Sep 2012, 4:16 PDT

Posted on 09/12/2012 6:48:01 PM PDT by drewh

A year and a half after the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, bureaucrats at the IRS and Health and Human Services issued an 18-page report outlining new regulations that will dramatically increase health care costs for small and large businesses alike.

The regulations, written by an IRS attorney, arbitrarily redefine "full time employee" as someone who works 30 hours a week for a business. Traditionally, most private businesses have defined "full time employee" as someone who works 40 hours a week.

With this new regulation, the federal government is now removing the right of businesses to define "full time employee" as they deem appropriate for their unique conditions.

The IRS rule is key because companies with more than 50 full-time employees must provide health insurance under Obamacare, or be fined.

Business groups have been warning that small companies might try to replace full-time workers with part-time help to avoid being forced to offer health insurance in 2014, but the 30-hour full-time definition is likely to undermine those plans.

The new regulations confirm former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's famous statement made just before President Obama's hallmark health care legislation became law. "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it," she said.

18 months later, we've found out more of what's in it, and most businesses have decided they don't like it.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2012; absolutedespotism; aca; crushfedgov; fulltime; fulltimejob; govtabuse; irs; longtrainofabuses; obama; obamacare; obamatax; obamatruthfile; ppaca; socialistdemocrats; socialisthealthcare; usurpations
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1 posted on 09/12/2012 6:48:05 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

Obama and his Obamacare-ilk just keep white-washing this legislative horror story. His Marxist timebomb must be repealed.


2 posted on 09/12/2012 6:50:19 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: EagleUSA

This is probably only the tip of the iceberg.


3 posted on 09/12/2012 6:51:37 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

I thought f/t was 32 hrs? Just saying.


4 posted on 09/12/2012 6:52:40 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: drewh

Why that’s twice as many hours as Obama works each week.


5 posted on 09/12/2012 6:52:47 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: drewh

In Obama’s economy, 30 hours is a good full time job.


6 posted on 09/12/2012 6:52:54 PM PDT by Dan Zachary
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To: drewh

Before you know it, Obama will call 20 hours per week “full time” work.


7 posted on 09/12/2012 6:54:18 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: drewh

It’s actually 20 hrs/wk.


8 posted on 09/12/2012 6:54:52 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: drewh

I just sent out an “ I told you so” but it really has no good taste. We are all f-ed.


9 posted on 09/12/2012 6:55:51 PM PDT by mirkwood
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To: drewh
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

At what point will we reach the caboose of this "long train"??

10 posted on 09/12/2012 6:57:23 PM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: drewh
“..This is probably only the tip of the iceberg...”

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Yes. This atrocity is written so that it can be RE-WRITTEN at any time as Obama and his brown-shirts to suit his agenda. This is a FANATIC EFFORT to ram this disaster down the throats of the American public and business world to hurt as many Americans as possible.

11 posted on 09/12/2012 6:58:44 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: drewh

How will poor people survive working only twenty-nine hours per week at minimum wage?


12 posted on 09/12/2012 7:01:48 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: drewh
In other words, employers are exempt until they exceed 49 full time employees, and there is no limit on the number of part time employees working 29 hours a week?

"The law of unintended consequences"

13 posted on 09/12/2012 7:02:14 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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14 posted on 09/12/2012 7:03:35 PM PDT by South40
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To: drewh

Commie Obama”care” and the dumbing down of the expectation of the American Worker.


15 posted on 09/12/2012 7:03:44 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: berdie

later


16 posted on 09/12/2012 7:14:01 PM PDT by berdie
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To: drewh

Well when you (according to the White House official records) start your day at 10:30 with a 1 hour meeting, followed by lunch then you’re off until the next day...and attend more fund raisers than national security briefings...and don’t hold a cabinet meeting in 8 months....30 hours a week seems like OVERTIME.


17 posted on 09/12/2012 7:17:12 PM PDT by Cookies4ever
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So now I’m (predicting) that I am going to have my hours cut even further; thanks, Obama!

This one regulation will literally kill (or severly wound) millions of starter-to mid level jobs..

Way to kill the American economy-not help it recover!


18 posted on 09/12/2012 7:19:12 PM PDT by JSDude1
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How would he know? He never has worked a damn job... his days start at 10:30 to 11:30AM and end by 3PM. He is a slacker and a dope head and a fag... and a despot and a muslim and a coward and an evil liar... and much, much more.

LLS

19 posted on 09/12/2012 7:24:29 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("if it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
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To: reg45

“How will poor people survive working only twenty-nine hours per week at minimum wage?”

Everyone will just have to have2-24 hour/week jobs!!

So everyone can worjk 48/week and boost the unemployment rate!!!!


20 posted on 09/12/2012 7:25:55 PM PDT by dalereed
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