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Staples threatens to fire employees who work more than 25 hours a week
Business Insider ^
| 2/9/15
| Ashley Lutz
Posted on 02/09/2015 10:25:04 PM PST by Nachum
Part-time Staples workers are furious that they could be fired for working more than 25 hours a week. The company implemented the policy to avoid paying benefits under the Affordable Care Act, reports Sapna Maheshwari at Buzzfeed. The healthcare law mandates that workers with more than 30 hours a week receive healthcare. If Staples doesn´t offer benefits, it could be fined $3,000 in penalties per person. Buzzfeed spoke with several Staples workers who revealed their hours have been drastically cut over the past year. Many reported working as few as 20 hours. The workers started a petition on Change.org asking
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KEYWORDS: aca; employees; fire; obamacare; staples; threatens
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To: Nachum
It’s obviously big evil corporate staples fault.
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posted on
02/10/2015 4:33:40 AM PST
by
bolobaby
To: dila813
Companies who try to hide their motivations do everyone a disserviceThe dilemma is that those who don't become the target of Big Government.
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posted on
02/10/2015 5:11:55 AM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
(The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
To: Fungi
The universal thirty hour week was the goal all along. Obamacare does the French one better by making our work week 30 hours rather than the French 35 hour week.
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posted on
02/10/2015 5:15:47 AM PST
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
To: Nachum; All
I’m only allowed to schedule people for 29 hours a week - tops. Above minimum pay, but no benefits.
This past year they dropped the Flex Plan for ‘part-time’ employees and reduced my once $1,300.00 Flex plan down to $500.00.
All due to ‘complying’ with Obamacare. It has been a nightmare in so many ways...but we’re still getting the job done - which amazes me every day. (I have an awesome staff who, ‘get it.’)
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posted on
02/10/2015 6:20:23 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Tennessee Conservative
Not my experience when I was there. I worked 12 hours a day sometimes for 9 or 10 days straight without a day off and it was mandatory. If you didnt like it, too bad. I finally retired at 58 last year. They were also very strict about being there off the clock for any reason. It was never allowed.
The company culture varied from site to site. This went on in what was then Health Care at Sharon Woods Technical Center in the 1980s. The entire hourly analytical group sometimes showed up on Saturdays, unpaid. It was the only way to get a good rating.
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posted on
02/10/2015 6:23:34 AM PST
by
Nepeta
To: kearnyirish2
Anyone who has supervised full-time hourly employees understands that they are protected from the egregious abuse of unpaid overtime often heaped on salaried employees; we had to make sure they took their scheduled lunches and left on time to avoid having to pay overtime. Companies that failed to take these steps lost a lot of money in court after laying such employees off; when the employees could prove they had worked extra hours (often over the span of years), they were awarded overtime pay for it - and they deserved it.
Some companies really are above the law, & P&G is one of them. When Alecia Swasy's book Soap Opera was released in the 1980s, the company wanted to know who had talked to her, so they asked Cincinnati Bell for employees' phone records--and got them, with no legal consequences.
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posted on
02/10/2015 6:30:30 AM PST
by
Nepeta
To: Diana in Wisconsin
“Im only allowed to schedule people for 29 hours a week - tops. Above minimum pay, but no benefits.
All due to complying with Obamacare.”
The local state university used to pay full benefits, including subsidized health insurance, to all employees working 20 hours or more per week. Because of the cost of the Obamacare-mandated benefits, the university “complied” with the law by eliminating benefits for most of the people working 20-29 hours per week. Some people previously working between 20 and 29 hours per week were fired, and a few were given enough hours to get them to 30 hours and keep their benefits. Overall, it’s been a fiasco for the vast majority of the part-timers.
To: Nachum
Papa John’s has no health ins plan even for their managers who put in 10 hrs 5 days a week, much less the PT workers.
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posted on
02/10/2015 8:22:29 AM PST
by
GailA
(IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
To: Pontiac
I read a few months ago that a woman with (3?) part-time jobs was so exhausted, she accidentally left a gas can inside her car.
It vented, and when she took a nap inside the car, waiting to start one of her jobs, she suffocated as the alcohol and volatile hydrocarbon fractions displaced the oxygen inside the cabin.
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posted on
02/10/2015 10:24:00 AM PST
by
__rvx86
(Rafael Cruz Jr: soon to be the first conservative, Latino President of the U.S. ¡Si se puede!)
To: Nachum
Same thing at my wife's supermarket. No official policy, but everyone's hours have been cut.
That's fundamental transformation for ya.
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posted on
02/10/2015 10:25:40 AM PST
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: Nachum
This prevents joblock baby. Yeahhhhhh, you get to use those extra 15 hours a week sculpting and painting and whatnot. What happened to “joblock”? How come nobody talks about it anymore?
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posted on
02/10/2015 10:28:43 AM PST
by
uncitizen
(They demand we judge them by the color of their skin)
To: riverdawg
It’s hard. In one sense, I’ve been able to cut the fat which helps my bottom line, and also shed some workers I was ‘stuck’ with form a previous manager.
BUT - that’s nothing I wouldn’t have done, anyway - it just forced my hand.
We’re ALL Free Agents - more so now than ever.
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posted on
02/10/2015 10:31:56 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Nachum
The headline also describes the far-left, IMO
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posted on
02/10/2015 10:34:09 AM PST
by
GeronL
To: Nachum
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posted on
02/10/2015 10:34:24 AM PST
by
GeronL
To: Nepeta
It is illegal to “donate” work, off the clock
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posted on
02/10/2015 10:35:47 AM PST
by
GeronL
To: Kickass Conservative
Ill have to check that out.
I'm pretty sure you'll find out it isn't true...
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posted on
02/10/2015 10:38:34 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
To: dila813
I don’t know if this applies to staples or not, but a lot of businesses have been threatened to not disclose policies that change based on the aca.
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posted on
02/10/2015 10:39:44 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Nachum
Most companies will fire employees who continually work more hours then they are scheduled. That’s why we have time clocks, etc.
To: Nachum
Drudge Headline:
Large$t Healthcare Firm: Obamacare Working...
To: minnesota_bound
Drudge Headline: Large$t Healthcare Firm: Obamacare Working... Me, Obamacare insurance agent- Um.. not really.
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posted on
02/10/2015 12:00:28 PM PST
by
Nachum
(Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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