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Public sector slashes part-timers’ hours ahead of Obamacare mandates (Pelosi knew)
Washington Times ^ | 2/21/14 | Tom Howell Jr.

Posted on 02/23/2014 3:56:16 PM PST by Libloather

Local governments, community colleges and other public employers are cutting work hours among part-time employees to prepare for coming mandates under Obamacare, according to the New York Times.

President Obama twice has delayed the law’s “employer mandate,” which will require large employers to provide health insurance or pay fines. It starts in 2016 for midsize employers and will phase in starting in 2015 for employers of 100 workers or more.

But public sector employers are trimming back work hours now, because their obligations will be based on data from this year, the Times reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; hours; jobs; mandate; obamacare; zerocare
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1 posted on 02/23/2014 3:56:16 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Good.


2 posted on 02/23/2014 4:00:16 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Libloather

Anyone who thinks this comes as a “unexpected” result
of Obamacare is not paying attention.
These are the rusults this administration WANTS.


3 posted on 02/23/2014 4:03:19 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Libloather

Helluva way to cut government. Destroy the economy and the constitution and liberty all at the same time. The USA becomes the USSA overnight.


4 posted on 02/23/2014 4:05:19 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Libloather

All planned from the begining, this is how they kill the middleclass and bring us down to the poverty level and dependecy.The middleclass pays the bills what will they do when they run out of our money


5 posted on 02/23/2014 4:05:54 PM PST by ronnie raygun (zippy the a##clown sez..............................)
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To: Libloather

Like she said, “We have to pass it — before the American people find out what’s in it.”


6 posted on 02/23/2014 4:20:47 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Libloather

I hope that sometime in the future, that the history of the beginnings of the Second American Republic were found in the unconstitutional power grab incorporated in the Affordable Care Act and the nation wide backlash of the American People against the Federal Government and it’s multitudinous agencies.


7 posted on 02/23/2014 4:29:24 PM PST by The Working Man
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To: Libloather

40 hrs * $7.25 == $290
29 hrs * $10.10 == $292.90

it’s like magic! same weekly pay, less work.

almost like a no-show job.... the Chicago way


8 posted on 02/23/2014 4:56:45 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Libloather

More time to spend with family and watch reality tv.
I assume the employees are thrilled and sending their thanks to Caliph Baraq.


9 posted on 02/23/2014 4:59:59 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: Libloather

Since we moved in October, finding full time work has been a struggle for me, but I did manage to land a part time job. From the the interview, to every “meeting” with my supervisor I make sure to mention that I want a full time position if one comes available or even another part time position to go with the one I have. I get the same response from her EVERY time... “We cannot give you more hours or allow you to work a second part time job here because if you hit 30 hours we would then, by law, have to offer you health insurance and there is no money in the budget for that.” On another occasion when the subject came up about 30 hours being the new “full time”... she said to me “Overhead at 40 hours isn’t that big a difference from 30 hours so if we have to pay benefits anyway, there will be no 30 hour weeks, only 25 hours part time or 40 full time. So, I for one can attest, this stuff is going on no matter how the Dems try to spin and deny it.


10 posted on 02/23/2014 5:05:11 PM PST by Grumpybutt (Pray for our troops!!)
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To: Libloather

Good!


11 posted on 02/23/2014 5:45:07 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Libloather
Don't they have to swear to the IRS under penalty of perjury that they are not making the cuts to avoid the Obamacare mandates?

Oh, I forgot. Government is never subject to its own laws.

12 posted on 02/23/2014 5:48:10 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If Barack Hussein Obama entertains a thought that he does not verbalize, is it still a lie?)
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To: Libloather

some day soon it will finally dawn on people that Obamacare is about the French 30 hour work week

Lazy lefties have salivated over a shorter work week for years.


13 posted on 02/23/2014 5:49:12 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: sten

“40 hrs * $7.25 == $290
29 hrs * $10.10 == $292.90

it’s like magic! same weekly pay, less work.

almost like a no-show job.... the Chicago way”

Precisely why the Marxists are arguing for a minimum wage increase.


14 posted on 02/23/2014 6:15:01 PM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Libloather

So,,,,all that stimulus money they spent to keep “Vital” government workers employed is now simply pi$$ed away


15 posted on 02/23/2014 7:11:50 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Jim Robinson

This going to come back and bite The One where it hurts. It just may take awhile. Its not a matter of if but when.


16 posted on 02/23/2014 7:38:35 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: sten

Thats an astute observation. The minimum wage increase being proposed now takes on more meaning. Now he can tell his voting segment that he got them the same amount of pay for less hours worked.


17 posted on 02/23/2014 7:42:10 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: sten

What that doesn’t take into account is how much it will make the price of sevices and goods go up across the board and take away the increase in pay they received.


18 posted on 02/23/2014 7:44:52 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Libloather

But this is better for people, right? Now they have more time to pursue their true interests.


19 posted on 02/23/2014 7:51:30 PM PST by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell)
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To: bert

“some day soon it will finally dawn on people that Obamacare is about the French 30 hour work week. Lazy lefties have salivated over a shorter work week for years.”

One FReeper astutely pointed out that this is not to reduce the workweek to 29 hours; instead, it will force people to work two 29-hour jobs to make ends meet. Instead of 29, they’ll get 58 hours of work. Many have been reduced to Asian peasants.


20 posted on 02/24/2014 3:51:12 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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