Posted on 10/13/2014 4:15:23 AM PDT by george76
Universities dodge the mandate by cutting back student work hours. Liberals are rebuking businesses for cutting the hours of workers to skirt ObamaCare’s employer mandate. Lo, the people’s republic of Boulder, otherwise known as the University of Colorado, has announced that it too is capping the hours of undergraduate workers to avoid the mandate.
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Undergrads will now be limited to 25 hours of university-provided employment per week, though students can work additional hours at off-campus jobs. Under ObamaCare, large employers must provide health benefits—including free contraception—to all employees who work more than 30 hours a week on average. Otherwise, they get whacked with a $2,000 penalty, er, tax per employee.
So Boulder is trying to circumvent the ObamaCare mandate by limiting hours of student workers. Why does Boulder want to take away women’s birth control?
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Student workers are merely the latest casualties of ObamaCare. Dozens of colleges including Colorado Mountain College are barring adjunct professors from working more than 30 hours a week. Many quick-serve restaurants plan to do likewise. Yet in an interview last week Colorado Sen. Mark Udall, who provided the 60th vote for passage in 2010, hailed ObamaCare “all in all” as “a success.”
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I have absolutely no sympathy for them. I bet most of the a$$clowns voted for the current occupant of the white house and probably also voted for the legalization of pot. Let them reap the repercussions of their vote. Done caring about these .
re: I bet most of the a$$clowns voted for the current occupant
Most voted for nObama? MOST? Mike, this is Boulder, CO, I would suspect at least 110% of them voted for the current pResident.
This is Great and should be celebrated, by creating more part time jobs, more and more people will be employed, unemployment will drop even further. Granted they will still be in poverty and on food stamps because they cant work FULL TIME, but hey unemployment will come down./s
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