PA Community College Reduces Employee Hours to Avoid Obama Care

[presence]

"It's kind of a double whammy for us because we are facing a legal requirement [under the new law] to get health care and if the college is reducing our hours, we don't have the money to pay for it," said adjunct biology professor Adam Davis.

On Tuesday, CCAC employees were notified that Obamacare defines full-time employees as those working 30 hours or more per week and that on Dec. 31 temporary part-time employees will be cut back to 25 hours. The move will save an estimated $6 million.
"While it is of course the college’s preference to provide coverage to these positions, there simply are not funds available to do so," said CCAC spokesperson David Hoovler. "Several years of cuts or largely flat funding from our government supporters have led to significant cost reductions by CCAC, leaving little room to trim the college’s budget further."
The solution, says United Steelworkers representative Jeff Cech, is that adjunct professors should unionize in an attempt to thwart schools seeking similar cost-savings efforts from avoiding Obamacare. "They may be complying with the letter of the law, but the letter of law and the spirit of the law are two different things," said Mr. Cech. "If they are doing it at CCAC, it can't be long before they do it other places."

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...e-PA-College-Slashes-Hours-To-Avoid-Obamacare

 

[tod evans]

You've got to wonder what consequences these folks thought would happen when employers were saddled with yet more mandatory expense...

 

[otherone]

lol. "Unionizing" will somehow magically create money from nothing.

 

[Seraphim]

Shush mundane, income flows and operation expenses are a fantasy. In the real world, everyone gets everything because the government and it's democratic majority say so. There is no such thing as margins or balance sheets.

You've got to wonder what consequences these folks thought would happen when employers were saddled with yet more mandatory expense...

 

[tttppp]

Great. More unions to prevent companies from avoiding Obamacare. This is going to turn intonthe great depression part 2.

 

[bill1971]

That is a brilliant side effect, I didn't see coming, the unions will get more power. This could be very bad.

 

[oyarde]

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[qh4dotcom]

I started another thread about this yesterday

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?396544-PA-College-slashes-staff-hours-to-avoid-Obamacare