Obama care redefines the work week to 30 hours.

[texansrangerfan73]

Wow ever since I started working around 20 years ago, full-time employees was considered the employees who worked 25 plus hours in a 5 day work week, M-F. What changes now I mean really?

[MadMan1978]

I have never heard anything other then 40 hours was a full time work week

[gladdyontherise]

MOre teapublicans twisting words and numbers for there benefit...to scare business owners...Seems so timely they come out with this now

And before you say well the LIBERALS do it too...we do it with facts! and well we learned form the the best....the right wingers!

It's really sad people think/act like this.

And no, conservatives nor liberals do anything with just 'facts', to think otherwise would be ignoring reality and wearing blinders.

[MadMan1978]

This was done for all the reason stated about but no because Government wanted to tend you business...

Too many Businesses hire Part times and have them work full time hours ie Wal-mart is the biggest abuser of this.
So you can twsit this anyway you wish

and Dan I use FACTS -why ? THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE!

[drtom2005]

Well, I always thought part-time was a 20 hour work week. I guess the abusers of the rules will need to either hire more people (good for the economy) or pay for people's healthcare (good for the economy). I really do not think that most small businesses make their part-time employees work 39 hours. Really? Lol.

[shrewsbury]

so how what will full time be considered?

and what laws will stop them from making people part time to say money?

[habsheaven]

I have been in the work force for over 25 years. All salaried positions requiring me to work 9-5 with an hour lunch. That equates to a 35hr work week. Are you guys telling me I have been a part-time worker all these years? In my experience part time has always been anything under 20 hrs a week. If you routinely work more than 20 you are considered full-time.

[MadMan1978]

I guess that something small...I mean we didnt try to define Rape in the bill...

[JustAlex]

I have been in the work force for over 25 years. All salaried positions requiring me to work 9-5 with an hour lunch. That equates to a 35hr work week. Are you guys telling me I have been a part-time worker all these years? In my experience part time has always been anything under 20 hrs a week. If you routinely work more than 20 you are considered full-time.

You live in a socialist (Communist, same thing ) country where there is no god (God bless Canada? ) and you allow GAYS to marry (clearly ruining marriage!).

Anyways, where you're from 35 hours might be "full time"....but, here in GOD'S COUNTRY (the ONLY country that matters) we know what's right and wrong, and we know more than you non-Americans.

[duane1969]

Exactly.This simply closes a loophole where a business owner can give you 39 hours (I think we all agree 40 hours is a full work week), working you full time minus 1 hour to take away your benefits. Anyone complaining about this is either blinded by partisanship or a business owner ticked off that you can't pull "39hrs is not full time, screw your benefits"

You are missing the key factor here. Many part-time employees work four 8 hour shifts (32 hours). What is going to happen is part time employees who normally worked 4 days a week are going to see their hours get cut rather than employers have to redefine them as fulltime and give them benefits.

I used to be in retail management and I can explain just how easy it would be. I have 3 part-time employees who work four 8 hour shifts (3 employees x 32 hours = 96 hours of paid labor). I want to slip under the 30 hour requirement so I reduce those three employees back to three 8 hour days and hire a fourth employee and give that person 24 hours (the three 8 hour shifts that I cut off of the other employees) giving me the same amount of labor (4 employees x 24 hours = 96 hours of paid labor).

So when it is all said and done I still get the exact same labor performed and it cost me nothing more. However, it does cost the government more because those part-time employees are now earning less and need more assistance from the government. No matter how they try to shape it, the Obama administration is not helping people by lowering the bar.

I am sure that someone will say "The employees will just go find new jobs if you cut their hours." No they won't. People who work jobs that give them 24-32 hours are generally unskilled labor. They lack the skillset and/or work experience to just walk away from a job and easily get another one. Instead what they will end up doing is taking a 2nd part-time job and end up working 48 hours a week and still not have health care provided by an employers.

Also, since the economy is so bad and jobs are so hard to find, I will easily find someone to work that 4th 24 hour schedule and if I do have someone quit I will have them replaced within a few hours.