Posted on 10/22/2012 6:57:24 AM PDT by SumProVita
Obamacare is a monumental house of horrors. Open a door and find another monster. Robert Samuelson opens the door on the laws distinction between full-time and part-time workers. You think Obamacare might have something to do with suppressing the growth of full-time employment? Consider Samuelsons observations.
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Did you think it couldn't get any worse?
Basic summary:
- IRS defines full-time as working more than 30+ hours
- employers will balance hiring/training costs of more part-time workers VS. the savings of not having to pay for health insurance of full time workers.
- part timers will have reduced income unless they pick up a second job and will have reduced incentive to work at all
- Many restaurants are already looking at how to shift to part-time workers
- IRS defines full-time as working more than 30+ hours
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Could that also be a change? I seem to recall that part-time was thought to be less than 35 hours...?!
In today's labor market, employers where workers have a regular 29.5 hours per week aren't really fond of being flexible enough on their hours to accommodate another part-time job.
Single women are much more expensive to insure than young single men. I imagine this will also play into hiring practices. Another case of obama hurts women.
Exactly. Being stuck in a single part-time job will condemn a lot of people to poverty and government dependency. There are a lot of hourly workers who can make enough money to live on if they can consistently get full-time hours, but not if they work under 30 hours a week. When they can't support themselves fully, they'll be looking to keep their income under whatever threshold allows them to qualify for government help to fill the gap: food stamps, housing assistance, etc. Or they will drop out of the workforce altogether.
Either way, the shrinking pool of people with full-time jobs will be stuck paying the bills for more unemployed and underemployed people.
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