[circlecity]

"With ObamaCare in the wings, the traditional forty- or fifty-hour work week will soon be replaced with a less than thirty-hour week for many American workers."

Or it will mean a 60 hour work week for two different employers.

[KarlInOhio]

The flip side of this is that there will be other workers who will have to jump from 40 to 60 because it will be cheaper to pay one worker 20 hours at time-and-a-half than to pay a for two workers' insurance.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

This is not new. Fifty one years ago, my high school civics teacher told us that in the future the average work week would be about 35 hours as there would be too many workers for each 40 hour job.

[Sooth2222]

Basic business accounting dictates that thirty will be the "new forty" for hourly employees. (But Obamacare should be a good thing for those 65+ in good health who still want to work part time because they have their health care covered by Medicare. Not so good for kids looking for their first jobs, though.)

BTW, didn't 24/7 become the other "new forty" when salaried employees became independent contractors -- and that was several economic cycles ago?

[KeyLargo]

One of my friends is a regional manager for a Midwest chain of restaurants and he attended a meeting this week where the new HR policy will be to hire more, but only part-time people to cover all of the shifts.

We will soon see MSM report that Obama claims that hiring is up!

[FrankR]

[Vaduz]

If taxed at 100%, there simply aren’t enough rich people to pay for all of his big-government plans.

Didn’t France tax the rich at 75%.Abd they are still in the hole.

[I am Richard Brandon]

A question and a question.

How long before 'They' sum the hours that you work at any endeavor in order to arrive at the 30 hours per week?

I keep hearing about "all the taxes" in ObamaCare. Has anyone made a quantified list?

[Vince Ferrer]

58 hours a week with two companies is only the beggining. Companies will automate as much as they can, or have self service to let their customers do the work. McDonald’s has already tried outsourcing their drive in window operators to India,expect that to come back in a big way. Jobs will dissapear over the next several years.

[Marcella]

In the early history of Ireland, a person paid his/her doctor a sum on a regular basis. If the person paying the sum, got sick and went to that doctor, he/she paid nothing more to the doctor until he/she was well again.

That’s a good incentive for good care - the doctor needed to make the patient well in order to start collecting that sum again.

[hattend]

Welcome to France West.

Heck, even France has a 32 hour work week