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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs this even legal?? Healthcare
So my wife gets notified at her job today that they are cutting back on her hours. She works 30 and its being cut to 25. The reason they said was rising healthcare costs. She wasn't alone. 12 others got the same notice. As it turns out they don't have to provide you with a healthcare plan if you work under 30 hours. This isn't fair and stinks. The company paid for most of the premiums. Anyone else heard of this?
peacebird
(14,195 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)I hope it gets reported. I wonder what the proper channels are? Homeland security could be put to work doing something useful. Yessiree.
TheKentuckian
(24,949 posts)That is baked into the cake. Employer based coverage is a fiasco and the cartel is a predatory monster.
I think most of the real point was to make sure affluent suburbanites escaped the worst excesses of the cartel and to make sure systemic reform was held off for at least a generation.
So you want to report to someone??, a company doing something, that is totally legal. Is that right?
gateley
(62,683 posts)accurate, I'll be knocked back to under 30 hours (they carefully keep me under 40 hours now to keep from having to provide insurance). Nothing I can do about it.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)ethical, not so much.
Looks like an attempt to game the system, I would suggest she and her co-workers look into what recourse they might have and forming a union might be one of those recourses.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)dballance
(5,756 posts)Companies have been hiring people as "temp" labor and contractors for some time now to avoid having to pay benefits. As one poster pointed out this is a matter of corporate policy for Walmart. Many, many Walmart workers on public assistance such as food stamps and medicaid. As many as 80% of workers at some Walmart Stores are on Medicaid.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)It's perfectly legal. It's happening all over at everything from hospitals to colleges to restaurants.
What did everyone expect?
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)for a long time. As long as I can remember.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)dairydog91
(951 posts)MiniMe
(21,677 posts)rgbecker
(4,806 posts)These companies have to be left to the "Market Forces". Let them see if they can find the good workers they need.
Orrex
(63,086 posts)OccupyManny
(60 posts)This is bullshit.