jimnyc
02-05-2014, 08:45 AM
This guy had his job shifted from full time to part time, so that the employer can avoid the healthcare costs. (just as I said they would from day one, avoid or pass along the cost). But what is Obama's solution? Increase the minimum wage. What an ass. People are scrambling and employers are dismissing people and cutting hours, all because this is killing their bottom dollar. And he thinks by forcing them to pay the employees more will somehow solve this issue? Employers will then reduce the workforce or once again find a way to lower their bottom dollar. A guy working 40 hours will have them cut to 30. I don't have an issue with minimum wage being increased from time to time, but it's not an answer to the floundering ACA.
During a Google Hangout session on Friday, fry cook Darnell Summers told President Obama that his hours were cut due to the Affordable Care Act. “We were broken down to part time to avoid paying health insurance,” he said. Summers explained that he makes $7.25 an hour and has been on strike four times seeking a wage increase. “We can’t survive, it’s not livin’,” he said.
The president responded by urging states to increase the minimum wage. “I am working to encourage states, governors, mayors, state legislators to raise their own minimum wage,” Obama said. “Obviously, the way to reach millions of people would be for Congress to pass a new federal minimum wage law. So far, at least, we have not seen support from Republicans for such a move.”
The president did not address Summers’s comments about the healthcare law.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/370307/fry-cook-shifted-part-time-work-confronts-obama-andrew-johnson
During a Google Hangout session on Friday, fry cook Darnell Summers told President Obama that his hours were cut due to the Affordable Care Act. “We were broken down to part time to avoid paying health insurance,” he said. Summers explained that he makes $7.25 an hour and has been on strike four times seeking a wage increase. “We can’t survive, it’s not livin’,” he said.
The president responded by urging states to increase the minimum wage. “I am working to encourage states, governors, mayors, state legislators to raise their own minimum wage,” Obama said. “Obviously, the way to reach millions of people would be for Congress to pass a new federal minimum wage law. So far, at least, we have not seen support from Republicans for such a move.”
The president did not address Summers’s comments about the healthcare law.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/370307/fry-cook-shifted-part-time-work-confronts-obama-andrew-johnson