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Some businesses use part-time to meet health law [Obamacare encourages 29-hour work week]
USA Today [link only] | December 30, 2014 | Paul Davidson

Posted on 12/30/2014 7:58:17 PM PST by grundle

link only:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/12/30/health-law-impact/21067751/


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: obamacare
Obamacare gives employers a huge incentive to switch their full time employees to a 29-hour work week. Democrats have never explained why they put this incentive into Obamacare.
1 posted on 12/30/2014 7:58:17 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Those naughty businesses. Why won’t they just knuckle under and lose money?


2 posted on 12/30/2014 8:00:35 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: grundle

The 29 hr workweek, with no insurance will destroy the Middle Class faster than any other thing they can do.

How does a family pay a mortgage, get health insurance, buy a car, put food on the table and live a middle class life on 29 hours a week....they don’t.


3 posted on 12/30/2014 8:01:15 PM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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To: Kackikat

Two of those jobs, 58 hours, you can survive.


4 posted on 12/30/2014 8:03:27 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: grundle

So a 29 hour worker qualifies for an Obamacare subsidy right???... What’s the loss here. /s


5 posted on 12/30/2014 8:04:08 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: grundle

Its funny the Democrats complain about the disappearing middle class and then they write a law to make that happen altogether.

I guess they never read what was in Obamacare before they voted for it.


6 posted on 12/30/2014 8:07:54 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: grundle

It’s what is going to happen. Employers will pull hours just to get under the 0bamacare window of employee hours ....


7 posted on 12/30/2014 8:16:06 PM PST by SkyDancer
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To: Kackikat

They get 2 part time jobs (or 4 part time jobs for a couple) and no employer paid health insurance.

This has been going on in Hawaii for a long time where employers have been mandated to contribute to health insurance for employees over 20 hours per week for decades now. All they had to do is look at Hawaii to see exactly what would happen.


8 posted on 12/30/2014 8:16:15 PM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: grundle

they didn’t build that, and they didn’t employ that. so, there’s no way they downsized that or cut those hours back.


9 posted on 12/30/2014 9:08:07 PM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: Kackikat

They get two or four jobs to make up the hours and the unemployment rate goes down

Yeah, that’s the ticket!


10 posted on 12/30/2014 11:18:34 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Kackikat

From what I see, young people today lease cars and forego home ownership (since they’re foregoing families); the food stamps will take care of the food issue. Health insurance will be provided by the nanny-state, but it will be unusable due to co-payments and high deductibles.


11 posted on 12/31/2014 3:25:04 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: grundle
USA Today finally figures this out? We knew about this years ago!

DOH!

12 posted on 12/31/2014 8:11:09 AM PST by sr4402
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To: 1010RD
Those naughty businesses. Why won’t they just knuckle under and Fold?
13 posted on 12/31/2014 8:12:40 AM PST by sr4402
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To: Kackikat

Ahh but with 29 hours they can get all kinds of benefits and bam! the Democrats have just created another welfare class.


14 posted on 12/31/2014 9:02:21 AM PST by sheana
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To: sheana

Oy Vey...and the ‘wheel turns’.


15 posted on 12/31/2014 9:32:19 AM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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To: SaxxonWoods

Maybe....but why should they, when we had a perfectly good country, that with some capitalism and new jobs the economy would have been restored. We can look back historically at every crash, and see that happening...not now.


16 posted on 12/31/2014 11:03:15 AM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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