Restaurant Chain Cuts Hours of Full Time Workers Because of ObamaCare

The American Thinker has;
Sign Of The Times: Chain Cuts Hours of Full Time Workers Because of ObamaCare
Rick Moran (Oct 10, 2012)

The restaurants affected - Red Lobster and Olive Garden - are owned by Darden Restaurants and the company says they will "test" the new employment strategy in 4 markets.

But you can bet they aren't the only company that will be looking at this option.

CNBC:

Darden Restaurants declined to give details but said the test is only in restaurants in four markets across the country. The test entails increasing the number of workers on part-time status, meaning they work less than 30 hours a week. Under the new health care act, companies will be required to provide health care to full-time employees by 2014. That would significantly boost labor costs for businesses.

About 75 percent of Darden's employees are currently part-timers.

Bob McAdam, who heads government affairs and community relations for Darden, said the company is still learning from the tests, which was first reported by The Orlando Sentinel.

"We're not at a point where we have results," he said. McAdam also noted that Darden is not alone in looking at ways to keep labor costs in check, with companies industry wide prepping for the new regulations to take effect.

Darden, based in Orlando, Fla., has made cost cutting a priority in recent years as sales growth and traffic have stalled at its flagship chains. In the most recent fiscal quarter, the company's restaurant labor costs were 31 percent of sales. That's down from 33 percent three years ago.

The reduction was driven by several factors. Given the challenging job market, Darden has been able to offer lower pay rates to new hires. Bonuses for general managers have been reduced as sales have stagnated. Servers at Red Lobster are handling four tables at a time, instead of three.

A record 8 million Americans are working part time. Someone suggested we start referring to President Obama as a "Part Time President" - it fits. Retail outlets especially will be looking at creating more part time workers by either cutting hours of current full time employees or hiring more part time employees.

Profit margins at retailers are so razor thin that any large increase in the cost of doing business is either going to bankrupt them, or force them to make other employment decisions. This is Obama's legacy if he is defeated and his execrable health insurance reform outlasts him.

Thank You American Thinker and Mr Moran

"Execrable" 

That's certainly One word for it.

So when can we expect Hospitals and Government Health Care providers to switch over to making all of Their Doctors and Nurses part time employees in order to beat ObamaCare compliance costs?

CNSnews has;

Unemployement Rate Plumets To 4.3%: For Government Workers
By Terence P. Jeffrey

October 5, 2012

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(CNSNews.com) -  The best news anywhere in the U.S. economy over the past three months has been in the government sector, where unemployment has dropped dramatically from 5.7 percent in July to 5.1 percent in August to 4.3 percent in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Both the federal and state governments increased their employees in July, August and September.

The Obama administration has added 10,000 civilian workers to the federal government's payroll since July, according to BLS. In that month, the federal government employed 2,804,000 civilian workers. In August, that increased to 2,810,000. And, in September, the number of civilian federal employees increased again to 2,814,000.

The BLS's count of civilian federal employees does not include members of the military or individuals who work for certain intelligence gathering agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the NSA.

The Obama administration has been able to accomplish a net increase in federal employees over the past three months even while the U.S. Postal Service--whose employees are considered part of the federal workforce--eliminated jobs and decreased its payroll. In July, according to BLS, the Postal Service employed 610,000 people. In August, that declined to 609,900, and in September that declined to 606,900.

State governments have added a net of 17,000 new workers to their taxpayer-funded payrolls over the past three months. In July, state government around the nation employed 5,052,000 people. In August, that climbed to 5,056,000, and in September it climbed again to 5,069,000.

Thank You CNS and Mr Jeffrey

Make Doctors, Nurses, and everyone else in the Health Sector a Government Employee, and ruin their business. So they won't be turned into part time employees, they'll just be expected, like Everyone else, to Do with Less so that everyone can Have More, ..... of Less.

Take away One Liner?

Make Everyone a Slave to Government, ....... Service Providers and Service Consumers, ...... Everyone.


Execrable: 

execrable |ˈeksikrəbəl|adjective extremely bad or unpleasant : execrable cheap wine. 

DERIVATIVES execrably |-blē| adverb

ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense [expressing or involving a curse]): via Old French from Latin execrabilis, from exsecrari ‘to curse’ (see execrate ).