Posted on 09/10/2014 3:08:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
A chart of hours worked shows the average work week has returned to pre-recession levels.
Average Work Week
Moreover, note that the number of part-time jobs has been relative steady in the recovery.
Employed Usually Working Part Time
What About the Obamacare Effect?
The Obama administration uses the above charts to make the claim Obamacare did not lead to a reduction in hours worked.
Obama is wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.townhall.com ...
If Obama says it, it must be true. Would Obama lie to you?
ooopsiee.
“At first glance it may appear the above chart is in conflict with the chart of people usually working part time. However, there is no discrepancy.
The BLS defines part time as less than 35 hours. Low wage industries had a lot of part-timers working 32 hours.
Under Obamacare, the threshold of part-time jobs is 30 hours. Obama made that change on purpose to force more businesses to offer healthcare.
Instead, busiunesses cut hours. It was the hours of the already part-timers that got cut, and that explains why there was no spike in part time employment.
The Obamacare effect is very real as the above chart shows.”
“The Obamacare effect is very real...”
It sure is. I’ve spent the last year ‘tinkering’ to plan for full-blown CommieCare going into effect.
No one works more than 29 hours; most work less. No one has worked more than 1,000 hours this cycle to avoid profit sharing. Flex accounts for part-time (long term!) people have been cut. Full time staff Flex Benefits have been cut from a generous $1,300.00 down to $500.00. No more glasses or dental fillings for YOU!
No one will be working more than 1500 hours in any given year, other than the current full-time staff. In the past 5 years we’ve gone from 5 full time to 3 full time staff.
I, OTOH, gets to pick up ALL of that slack, and then some! ‘Keeping your job,’ is the new ‘raise.’
And sincerely, I am GRATEFUL to have a good job (that I actually LOVE) at my age WITH moderately decent benefits. I don’t know how some of you out there are doing it. I really don’t.
But I’m realistic enough to know I could be joining you at any given minute...
average workweek is up because salaried employees like myself are expected to be 120% billable. I effing had been working 112 hour workweeks getting shot at in the oilfields... that tends to goose the data.
The details under the details show Obama hurts most, in terms of wages and income, those he claims to help most.
What a pantload, I’m so sick of these stories. Numbers are cooked prior to the election.
Like a rug
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