Looks like we are back to part time work only, like we worked as teenagers, due to catastrophically bad government regulations.
To reach for their utopia in the skies, the Progs forced through bad legislation in as undemocratic a manner as they could, and now the system is simply collapsing around itself. Cloward - Piven, anyone?
From the article, and the front lines:
"But one thing has been very clear: The best way to be “safe” and avoid the costs imposed by the law was to have one’s workers be classified as “part-time”, or for this particular law working less than 30 hours per week. The other fact that emerged from some IRS rule-making (yes, the IRS is in charge of creating and enforcing many of the rules, and doesn’t that make you feel better) was that whether a worker was to be classified as part-time on January 1, 2014 would be based on his or her work patterns in 2013. This is why savvy companies, including ours, were planning hard for work force changes last year. Our goal was to get every worker in the company under 30 hours a week before 2013 even started.
Everywhere I traveled last year, this shift to part-time service work was the main topic of discussion — resort owners, hotel employees, waiters and retail clerks all discussed, and generally lamented, the changes. I met private equity folks who were considering buying a restaurant chain, and much of their analysis concerned potential new approaches to splitting shifts to get all their workers under 30 hours a week. I can’t remember going to a single business conference where this was not a major discussion topic. My company’s management training this year had to shorten or eschew entirely our usual productivity and customer service topics in order to spend about half the time planning part-time shift management."
The Obama administration, along with the radicalization of the Democratic Party, has been an unmitigated disaster for our country.
"The Obama administration, along with the radicalization of the Democratic Party, has been an unmitigated disaster for our country."
ReplyDeleteSo true, but what never ceases to amaze me is the constant demagoguery from the left on how extreme the republicans have become. A party full of wimps and RINOS is called extreme? Demagoguery seems to work, maybe its about time for the republicans to nut up?
"Rut up," ha! I'm using that line.
DeleteThe demagoguery from the Dems is, in my opinion, due to what the psychologists call transference, which is the act of blaming someone else for something you are in fact doing or would like to do. There's also the motivation to distract, which simply means to me that they know they are doing something that most Americans would not like, yet plan to do it anyway.
Either way, they and their ideas are not what the country needs any more.