Posted on 10/22/2013 1:04:50 PM PDT by grundle
According to the BLS household survey, part-time jobs fell 594,000 in September while full-time workers were up 691,000.
This was one hopeful nugget in an otherwise lackluster jobs report.
Workers are considered to be "part time" if they work under 35 hours a week.
Earlier this summer, when part-time numbers looked like they might be on the rise, some speculated that the shift was due to the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
106) Encouraged employers to switch their employees from full time to part time
The New York Times reported that Obamacare
“sharply penalizes full-time employment in favor of part-time employment.”
In response to the employer mandate of Obamacare, some restaurants have announced plans to switch some of their employees from full time to part time, including some franchises of Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, White Castle, and Fatburger.
Community College of Allegheny County switched 200 professors and 200 other employees from full time to part time in response to Obamacare. Clint Benjamin, an English professor at Community College of Allegheny County, said that this would reduce his own monthly pay by $600.
Also in response to the employer mandate of Obamacare, other colleges have announced plans to switch some of their employees from full time to part time, including Florida’s Palm Beach State College, Ohio’s Youngstown State University, and New Jersey’s Kean University.
In Virginia, thousands of government employees had their hours reduced because of Obamacare.
The Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh reduced the hours of 48 of its employees in response to Obamacare.
Regal Entertainment Group, the largest chain of movie theaters in the country, announced that it would be switching thousands of its employees from full time to part time in response to the Obamacare mandate.
Utah’s Granite School District reduced the hours of 1,200 of its employees in response to Obamacare.
In response to Obamacare, many Wal-Mart stores have stopped hiring full time workers.
In July 2013, leaders of the Teamsters, UFCW, and UNITE-HERE sent a letter to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi which said that Obamacare will
“destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class… the law creates an incentive for employers to keep employees’ work hours below 30 hours a week. Numerous employers have begun to cut workers’ hours to avoid this obligation.”
In response to Obamacare, Forever 21 reduced its employees’ hours.
As of September 2013, more than 200 public-sector employers had reduced their employees’ hours in response to Obamacare.
Sea World reduced the weekly hours of its part time employees from 32 to 28 in response to Obamacare.
Lands’ End limited its part time employees to 29 hours per week in response to Obamacare.
As of September 2013, at least 34 universities and colleges had reduced some of their employees’ hours in response to Obamacare.
not too funny when you consider most of the jobs are paid by federal government. where does that money come from?
Obama delayed that mandate, enforcement
What’s a Yahoo?
Big-0 delayed the employer mandate. What would they expect to happen? Check back next year.
To all normal people! But ZeroCare says you work full-time if you work 30 hours or more. Could this reports' data be skewed?........
it’s criminal...they will pay.
It is time for our $5M man to get a brain transplant.
Oct 18, 2012 · CNSNews.com) – A little-known section in the Obamacare health reform law defines “full-time” work as averaging only 30 hours
“Big-0 delayed the employer mandate. What would they expect to happen? Check back next year”
I’d like some additional verification on this number. IF TRUE I suspect unemployment should be creeping up as not as many part timers are needed as hours are increased back to full time status. If everyone is working two jobs then unemployment may not take a hit.
Name: Steven Perlberg
Year: 2013
Major: Political Science, Anthropology
Campus Involvement: Cast and Crew, WashU Political Review, Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
Where did Yahoo find these outrageous numbers? They are nothing like the numbers released this morning.
Leftist fanatics treat myth like they treat truth. It is to them what they imagine it to be. The reality of people losing full time jobs is inconsequential compared to the victory over the US medical system. Everyone is going to pay for this mess, with income and insufficient healthcare.
It's a free email for when you need to provide an email but afraid of getting spam so you go to yahoo and get a free account to use only for websites you may not trust (such as ObamaCare).
Also, during election years it's a great place to sign up for democrat usernames to go into chats.
My Hillary2016 account will be about the successes in Libya and how "we came, we saw, he's dead", and Benghazi. Under this name I suggested that we could make peace with Islamic radicals by praying to Allah 5 times a day, I mean, how do they REALLY know we are really praying just because we're acting it out. If it can stop terrorism, why not wear the sheets with two holes for eyes?"
The eyes are usually found in the head area... so if you find where their head is, you will find the same place the numbers came from.
ABC News just blamed the poor jobs numbers on the shutdown.
I hate those people.
Let every RAT embrace their own doom. DeathCare will stick to these vermin with super glue come 2014.
Look at the graph in the source article. Hello! Selective sampling. What a load of poop.
I think the Left wing cheerleading for Democrats is beyond the pale. I think if we could get 10 million conservatives and a few hundred conservative millionaires to ante up we could buy NBC, CBS and ABC and put our message out for the low info voters to absorb.
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