Posted on 08/05/2013 2:16:45 PM PDT by ColdOne
Keeping in mind that, under ObamaCare, a “full-time” work week is only 30 hours, the SBA website provides an example:
Company X has 40 full-time employees working 40 hours per week, along with 20 part-time employees working 15 hours per week. The 20 part-time employees are counted as 10 full-time equivalent employees. Company X has 50 full-time employees and is subject to the employer shared responsibility provisions.
The rules are a “problem for employers at the margin” of 50 full-time workers, said Edmund F. Haisimaier of the Heritage Foundation. In addition, the mandates include seasonal employees, so even if a business with seasonal workers has the equivalent of 50 full-time workers for only 121 days, ObamaCare requirements are activated for that business.
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Declare yourself a member of congress. You will be calling yourself scum and even cockroaches are more popular, but you will be exempt from 0bamacare.
“Company X has 40 full-time employees working 40 hours per week, along with 20 part-time employees working 15 hours per week. The 20 part-time employees are counted as 10 full-time equivalent employees. Company X has 50 full-time employees and is subject to the employer shared responsibility provisions.”
40 at 40 is 1600 man hours. 20 part-timers is 20x 15 or 300 man hours for 1900 man hours.
Solution - fire 20 fulltimers (at 800 man hours). Work the remaining 20 at 60 hours per week. 20 at 60 is 1200 man hours. Your 700 man hours short. At 15/ hire thats 50 part-timers counting as half a worker apiece.
(20 full timers/ 50 part-timers/2) = 45 employees. Plus you halve the benefit costs.
um... so basically according to this you could have only 38 (not the 50 specified) full time employees working 40 hours a week and have to provide coverage since the law defines full time as 30 hours.
There is a revolution coming that will fundamentally change America...........
We’ll become a nation of part timers and sub-contractors.
Another ‘solution’ is to hire only ‘contract workers’......
The best way for small businesses to avoid ObamaCare is by labeling their job positions as U.S. Congressman, U.S. Congressional Aide, U.S. Congressional intern, etc.
Since Congress can deem themselves exempt, when the ACA plainly and specifically says they are NOT, then these companies should be declaring themselves exempt too
It doesn’t work that way.
They define 30/week as a ‘full time position’, and are using that number for part-timers to increase the cost of hiring part-timers.
It still can be worked around by converting full timers to ‘exempt staff’, and working them a shift and a half.
When RomneyCare was implemented here in MA a Contractor called the Howie Carr Show and said he fired everybody and hired them back as Sub Contractors.
What I do. I’m very happy being a company of one. :)
There may be more than 50 FTE’s and it would trigger the Obamacare requirements but they do not need to offer policies to the part timers - so the author missed the whole rationale.
It looks like there will be more opportunities for business service contractors — especially if those contractors also have fewer than 50 Full Time Equivalent employees.
For instance, a business with (say) 60 employees could contract out all accounting, billing, advertising, order-taking, dispatch etc. services, until they got below the magic number of 50.
Or, would these Unaffordable Care Act rules also capture such arrangements?
If you are self-employed, don’t you have to set health insurance via the exchanges under obozo care?......
The GOPe gave us the ONLY candidate who could not attack the worst piece of legislation in modern history.
0bamaCare = RomneyCare.
The same Romney aides were in the room helping design 0bamaCare.
Romney even had a USA Today op-ed encouraging Obama to make a national version of RomneyCare and we got it. The worst possible candidate on this issue was forced on us.
There may be a point to what the guy is saying. Yes, the employer may be covered by the employer mandate, but he only has to provide insurance for the full time employees. So he has to cover the 40 full time workers but not the part-time.
Yes there is a real impact of Obamacare on small business. But the overall impact on the economy is much larger because no matter how big you are, you don’t have to cover those employees who work less that 30 hours. That is why all the big restaurant chains and retailers are increasing their use of part time workers and decreasing the use of full time workers. Employees who are marginal and deemed to be more easily replaced will have their hours cut and only valuable employees will be worth the cost of providing health insurance.
Coupled with the fact that our economy has a large number of unemployed and underemployed, large employees can cut hours without serious damage to their labor pool.
Typical results from liberal attempts to tinker with economic realities their neither understand nor like.
You can avoid the nobamacare worries for your employees by closing your business, firing your employees and retiring.
Then, when they say you can't lawfully do that, reply that Congress cannot lawfully exempt themselves like they did.
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