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To: Jim Robinson

Won’t they hire more people putting in less hours? Why don’t they make it a 20 hour work week and then there will be jobs aplenty.


3 posted on 07/31/2013 4:48:37 PM PDT by bigheadfred (INFIDEL)
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To: bigheadfred

Tell it to the workers getting reduced pay and benefits.


7 posted on 07/31/2013 4:50:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: bigheadfred

“Why don’t they make it a 20 hour work week and then there will be jobs aplenty.”

I suspect there at least two issues. As a boss you don’t know until your employee turns in his timecard that it’s the second week when he worked 30-plus hours. Now, you must pay for insurance. And, there will be plenty of people who do just that.

Secondly, at federal and state level there has been talk of punishing companies who cut part time hours to get around paying for insurance. Even just discussing such a plan would be enough to make risk-averse employers simply fire every part time employee. That eliminates the issue even before it becomes an issue. (What, employers think, if they make this law backdated to a date when we did this? Okay, we’ll simply fire everybody now and not worry about it.)


15 posted on 07/31/2013 4:59:08 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: bigheadfred

Won’t they hire more people putting in less hours? Why don’t they make it a 20 hour work week and then there will be jobs aplenty.

that’s how they’re reporting an increase in number of jobs now.
(in a sane society, they’d be prosecuted for fraud)


35 posted on 07/31/2013 6:35:58 PM PDT by willywill
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