What, if anything, will Joe Biden do about Obamacare's 30 hour work week?

[Drop Dead Fred]

Obamacare requires employers to pay for insurance for all workers who work at least 30 hours per week. As a result, many employers have reduced their workers hours to less than 30 hours per week.

Here is an article about this.

What, if anything, will Biden do to fix this problem?


Local Institutions' Employees Feeling Effects Of Obamacare

Local Institutions’ Employees Feeling Effects Of Obamacare

July 2, 2013

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Obamacare is the law of the land, but it may be the law of unintended consequences.

Some employers say they find the Affordable Care Act – unaffordable. Instead of extending coverage to some employees, they’re cutting their hours.

Clint Benjamin cobbles together a living teaching writing at both CCAC and Duquesne University, but this school year CCAC cut his hours.

“I’ve got a kid to raise, bills to pay, etcetera, etcetera. Everyone has those issues, but it certainly makes the limited dollars leaner and scarcer,” Benjamin said.

The reason was not his performance in the classroom, but rather an act of Congress. The Affordable Healthcare Act — known as Obamacare.

It requires healthcare coverage for all employees working more than 30 hours a week and CCAC cut back the hours of 200 adjunct professors and 200 other employees so they wouldn’t have to foot that bill.

“Unfortunately, extending coverage to those employees would be completely unaffordable for CCAC. It would be about $6 million a year,” David Hoovler with CCAC said.

CCAC is not alone is saying that extending additional healthcare benefits could be a budget-buster. The Carnegie Museum recently cut back the hours of 48 of its 600 part-time employees for the same reason even though both institutions say they did so reluctantly.

“Our preference would be to extend the coverage to those employees. It’s simply unaffordable for the college and online medical assistant programs at this time,” Hoovler said.

However, union organizers say it’s not limited to public institutions.

“At Red Lobster and Walmart, they’re doing the same thing. The people working part-time who are already working jobs where they’re not making enough to live are having their hours cut,” Robin Sowards said.

They also say that companies and institutions should find a way to provide healthcare.

Obamacare is still a work in progress and the federal government may start improving penalties on institutions and companies who don’t comply, but that remains to be seen.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

OBAMA CARE.....BAD FOR EVERYBODY

 

[Penelope]

It they had 40 hours they would cut hours to 39. They should not make any hours requirement, this way everyone would be on the ACA. Those who want to offer health ins. should no matter how many hours they work.

 

[edthecynic]

As a result, many employers have reduced their workers hours to less than 30 hours per week.

How many times are you STUPID assholes going to mindlessly parrot this LIE???????

 

[Shelzin]

This is how he got lower unemployment... See... See? We get to hire two people at 29 hours, get another 18 work hours per week {( 29x2 ) -40}, and still don't' have to pay health insurance or overtime for either one. Gee, ain't he good at the economy? But more people have jobs!

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Hire them as contract work. There are several ways around obamacare.

 

[dudmuck]

OBAMA CARE.....BAD FOR EVERYBODY

 

[TheGreatSatan]

Democrats lower the hours to 30 to force employers to hire more workers and lower unemployment. It forces people to get 2 jobs.

 

[Drop Dead Fred]

As a result, many employers have reduced their workers hours to less than 30 hours per week.

How many times are you STUPID assholes going to mindlessly parrot this LIE???????

It's not a lie. It's in the article that I posted in the OP.

Here are some more examples:

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.

On October 23, 2013, Investor’s Business Daily wrote:

IBD has a running list that now includes 351 employers that have opted to cut work hours below 30 per week or take related steps to limit liability under ObamaCare’s employer mandate. Each entry is documented with links to news sources and public records.

About 275 entries on IBD’s list come from the public sector, including more than 100 school districts.

 

[Claudette]

Obamacare was a POS when it went into effect and is still a POS.

The ONLY people who like it are those the rest of us are paying for. Hell anyone with benefits got screwed.