But, it is certainly affecting businesses. Especially, small businesses which are the backbone of the american economy. About 30% of them AND IT WILL GO HIGHER AFTER NEXT YEAR are cutting hours and swapping full time employees for part timers in order to avoid the penalty imposed by crapcare. Welcome to Europe folks. Say hello to the 29.5 work week. Of course some of you will say that it's mainly franchises. It doesn't matter because those people, skilled or not, shouldn't have to be forced to work and earn less and have to get another job or two in order to make ends meet because of a law that most people didn't want or need. It is just the tip of the iceberg. Bigger businesses, corporations, and industry giants will soon follow after next year.
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=post;board=51.0First, President Obama had to backtrack from his promise that if you like your health insurance plan, under Obamacare "you can keep it." Now, a new study is suggesting that, under Obamacare, "If you like your workweek, you can’t necessarily keep it, either."
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/1113/Businesses-cut-full-time-workers-to-meet-Obamacare-mandate-study-saysAbout 30 percent of small franchises and 12 percent of other small businesses say they are cutting work hours – or swapping full-time for part-time workers – because of the law, according to a poll sponsored by business groups.
The moves are part of a bid to control health-care expenses, and they are a sign of how the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was designed to greatly expand the number of Americans who have health insurance, could be having some unintended consequences in the job market.
A key Obamacare incentive is an “employer mandate” that asks businesses to sponsor health insurance
(or pay a penalty) if they have more than 50 full-time employees. It defines a full-time worker as one serving 30 or more hours per week. So a firm can avoid the mandate by having fewer than 50 people working full-time.
Although the provision won’t be enforced until 2015, some employers with 40 to 500 workers have already started adjusting for the new landscape, the survey by Public Opinion Strategies found:
Some 31 percent of franchise businesses and 12 percent of non-franchise businesses say they have already reduced worker hours because of the law.
About 27 percent of franchise businesses and 12 percent of non-franchise businesses have already replaced full-time workers with part-time employees because of the law.
Some 41 percent of the non-franchise firms say they already see health-care costs rising because of the law.
As the franchise firms look toward the future, 28 percent of them say they’ll stop offering health coverage in 2015 because of the law. One-third of franchise businesses already do not offer health insurance.The poll arrives as Obamacare is already under attack for the botched rollout of its enrollment website, HealthCare.gov, and for insurance cancellations despite Mr. Obama’s pledge that if you like your health plan “you can keep it.”
Now, the business community is painting the workplace impact as a serious concern, and
some labor groups have also voiced worry about the rise of the 29.5-hour workweek.
