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Townhall
The Obama
Recession
by John C. Goodman
Nov 17, 2012
Full time work is about to get scarcer. The reason? By hiring part-time
workers who put in less than 30 hours per week, employers can avoid a
mandate dictated by the new health reform law: either provide expensive
health insurance or pay a fine equal to $2,000 per worker. Avoiding the
mandate becomes even more attractive for low-wage employees, since they
can get highly subsidized insurance in the newly created health
insurance exchanges. According to the Wall Street Journal:
• Darden Restaurants [parent of Red Lobster and Olive
Garden] was among the first companies to say it was changing hiring in
response to the health-care law.
• Pillar Hotels & Resorts this summer began to
focus more on hiring part-time workers among its 5,500 employees, after
the Supreme Court upheld the health-care overhaul.
• CKE Restaurants Inc., parent of the Carl’s Jr. and
Hardee’s burger chains, began two months ago to hire part-time workers
to replace full-time employees who left.
• Home retailer Anna’s Linens Inc. is considering
cutting hours for some full-time employees to avoid the insurance
mandate if the healthcare law isn’t repealed.
• In a July survey, 32% of retail and hospitality
company respondents told [Mercer] that they were likely to reduce the
number of employees working 30 hours a week or more.
Read the rest of the article at Townhall
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