Posted on 01/09/2015 8:35:13 AM PST by george76
One of the first agenda items on the to-do list for the new Congress is redefining the definition of full-time work under Obamacare's employer mandate, which goes into effect this year. Under the healthcare law, companies have cut hours in order to avoid reaching the Obamacare threshold requiring businesses to provide health insurance if they employ more than 50 full-time workers at 30-hours per week. As a result, the economy is seeing an substantial shift from full-time to part-time workers with fewer benefits as a result of the law.
Republicans have long expressed the need to re-establish the definition of full-time in Obamacare and they've found an unlikely ally on the topic in labor unions. Leading unions bosses, including those who have supported President Obama and Obamacare in the past, have been furious for years about the health legislation's devastating effect on working Americans. In 2013 Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, UFCW President Joseph Hansen and UNITE-HERE President D. Taylor sent a scathing letter directly to President Obama and Democrats demanding a fix.
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resident Obama issued a veto threat earlier this week, saying through his press secretary Josh Earnest that if Congress were to pass legislation re-defining "full-time" under Obamacare he would reject it, further putting him at odds with Republicans, Democrats, his rhetoric about supporting the middle class, the vast majority of the American people and the labor unions who have given him and his party unwavering political support.
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Professor Cloward, have you met Professor Piven ?
The Part Time President hates the Middle Class.
The wrong thing can never be done the right way.
Obamacare is WRONG. It is unconstitutional and unjust. Don’t try to fix Obamacare because by definition you can’t. NUKE IT!!
... and their first born son, Barry.
Does this not broaden and strengthen the scope of Obamacare coverage instead of weakening it?
and that is how it must be presented: restore the 40 hour work week as the standard, not as an attempt to undermine O care. Make his majesty look like the bad guy, which is not hard frankly.
Yeah : )
If Obama is going to veto this then the GOP should go ahead and pass it. Otherwise, the Republicans shouldn’t pass this sort of bill. While the 40 hour work week is essential, the GOP shouldn’t do anything to prop up Obamacare or make Obamacare more palatable. Increasing the work week from 30 to 40 hours for the employer mandate makes Obamacare more workable. Now, since Obama is happy to be unreasonable let him veto this bill.
Cue the list.
Leading unions bosses, including those who have supported President Obama and Obamacare in the past, have been furious for years about the health legislation’s devastating effect on working Americans
So let me guess, they became furious immediately after Supporting and Rallying for Obamacare across the country??
Cry me a river, take your lumps Unions, you begged for thrm
This is fine. Nice, clean, short bills. Stack them on his desk and let them die.
Then unpack them for the 2016 election and win, while at the same time eviscerating any D Senator that voted against them.
The only weeks I go down to 40 hours is when I am on vacation.
Oh, but this is the right strategy to get it exposed as “the wrong thing”.
Pass little “fixes” to the most egregious things about it and force Obama to veto them.
Of course without these really nasty little items, the whole thing collapses.
When I had my own businesses, 80 hours seemed like a short week.
He’ll veto it if it reaches him. I expect it’ll be filibustered in the Senate first.
Side issue, thanks Boehner and McConnell.
REPEAL and/or DEFUND. Vote on it. If there’s a veto, vote on it again.
To play the devil’s advocate, wouldn’t this just allow companies to work people 39 hrs a week and still call them part time? Sure they would be getting more money but still no full time benefits.
It's a question of side-effects. Whatever number is "full time" will result in gaming of the law by cutting hours to just under that number. Obamacare sought to sidestep that by going down to 30, but it wasn't low enough. On the other hand, if they dropped it to say... 10... that would be crazy, too. No one would ever get a true part-time job.
Probably in this context insisting on the 40 hour week is good. Unfortunately as productivity increases and more and more jobs are abolished by automation (or the number of people needed to do them drastically reduced) we will eventually have to go to a shorter work week if we are to keep anything like full employment. The alternative is the one beloved of the left, having more and more people as permanent beneficiaries of the state who will always vote to increase the power of the state.
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