Posted on 08/03/2013 9:36:23 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Obamacare has "perverse incentives" that allow employers to cut their employees' work hours, says Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who has introduced a bill to change the healthcare law's definition of full time work from 30 hours a week to 40.
Collins, in Saturday's GOP address, noted that under Obamacare, anyone working an average of 30 hours a week is considered full-time, meaning many employers may cut their hours so they won't have to provide them with insurance.
A 40-hour work week is full-time, we all know that," said Collins.
She noted in her address that her family founded a small business in Maine more than 160 years ago that continues to be run by two of her brothers.
"Our economy is built on millions of enterprises just like ours," she said. "It’s not easy to survive in today’s economy. But these employers remain our nation’s job creators. We should be doing all we can to promote policies to help them survive and thrive."
She also agreed that healthcare reform should provide people with access to quality and affordable care "while encouraging economic growth. That’s not what is happening under Obamacare."
Instead, Collins said, Obamacare discourages small businesses from creating jobs and hiring new workers, and "has perverse incentives for employers to reduce the number of hours that their employees can work."
Most small businesses want to provide health insurance, said Collins, but can't afford to do so under Obamacare.
In addition, she said, that while businesses with 50 or more full-time employees are required to provide health insurance or face huge fines, they won't face fines if they only have 49 employees.
"These enormous penalties are a real threat to employers who want to add jobs," she said. "They are a powerful incentive for employers to refrain from hiring...
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Sounds like she is trying to put people completely out of business by changing this to a 40 hour rule. At least with 30 hours they can keep operating with part-timers.
GOP had better nip this one in the bud, it will only help dems keep obamacare in effect and destroy businesses.
This 30 hour work week is a socialist idea. To their way of socialist thinking all the central government has to do is edict a 30 hour work week and poof ! Just like magic all manufacurers will have to hire more employees to make the widgets to fill the orders that don’t come because of the increase in per unit costs dumped on them created by the central planners.
It’s just like believing artifically increasing the costs of fuel by restricting new refineries , drilling on Fed lands, and only 50 employees for a new pipeline. So having it be transported by railroad to processing centers who’s owner is a key contributer (Buffett) may increase the costs.
But its benefits will be; We’ll double the minimum wage,be saving the world from climate change, while letting other countrys eliminate US manufacturing jobs that will make US dependent on the central government for support.
I have a better idea defund Obamacare and dump Collins while we’re at it.
New word to describe all of the RAT-RINO-LIBS:
***************LIBIOT*****************
So now we’d have 39 hour people with no insurance instead of 29 hour people? I’m not sure this idea has been thought fully through...
To me the problem isn’t the number of hours at which a punishing regulation kicks in, the problem is that there is punishing regulation.
You figured it out, Steve. Obamacare Full Frontal: Of 953,000 Jobs Created In 2013, 77%, Or 731,000 Are Part-Time, ZeroHedge, August 2, 2013.
Yes,Yes,Yes. The scum in the sewers is better than CONgress.
It would not surprise me at all to see the day arrive when employers are fined or otherwise sanctioned for laying people off.
It wouldn't surprise me, either. The Democratic [sic] party, aided and abetted by the Vichy Republican party, never passes up an opportunity to institute new taxes.
The real vote is the vote to end debate (cloture) how did Collins vote on cloture?
Not allow but force. Businesses were already free to cut hours if they wanted to. Now they have to cut hours to avoid a penalty.
Then the poor smucks will have to pay full price to the exchange then any subsidy will come as a tax credit NEXT YEAR!
We have to pass the bill to see what’s in it.
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