Posted on 08/22/2013 8:51:46 PM PDT by Nachum
Many cash-strapped cities and counties facing the prospect of shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars in new health-care costs under the Affordable Care Act are opting instead to reduce the number of hours their part-time employees work. The decisions to cut employee hours come 16 months before employers — including state and local governments — will be required to offer health care coverage to employees who work at least 30 hours a week. Some local officials said the cuts are happening now either because of labor contracts that must be negotiated in advance, or because the local governments worry
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If I were in charge of a municipality I would be doing these three things
1. Outsource as much work as possible.
2. Cutting as many staff as possible, then cutting the remaining non essential staff to part time.
3. Cutting wages of those remaining to as low as possible.
Oh, and in places like Massachusetts, New York, and California, the municipalities will have to just let people go as they will receive fines for cutting hours like that. Those states have regulations calling for health insurance for everybody if the company has more than 50 FTE employees, regardless if they all work under 20 hours.
You are going to see a lot of people working 60+ workweeks with lower wages to compensate for the shortfall.
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