Starting in 2016, the federal health law requires small employers to offer their full-time workers health insurance. In anticipation of the change, some fast-food restaurants looked to get around the law by making more workers part time. Starting Jan. 1, businesses with 50 or more full-time employees had to offer health insurance to all full-time staff or pay a hefty fine. Some fast-food franchise owners figured out a way to avoid paying for coverage: Just make as many workers as possible part time. Some of the restaurant owners who cut hours to sidestep the health law now regret it says Kaya Bromley, an attorney who helps employers comply with the Affordable Care Act."A lot of the fast-food franchisees that did this," she says, "are now coming back and saying, 'it was a great idea for reducing the number of people that I have to offer benefits, but now I can't run my restaurants.' "
This reminds me of the labor problems in the gilded age. Although, working conditions are better today large business owners are still trying to take things away from their workers. These businesses need to stop giving the executives million dollar bonuses and using accounting gymnastics to minimize tax liability while their employees are on welfare and receiving healthcare on the state's dollar. The fact that the employees are not able to be promoted because of their hours is ridiculous to me. Angelo Amador, vice president of labor and workforce policy for the National Restaurant Association, says,"Someone who's working part time, but wants more hours so they can move up the ladder, can't get the hours, this ends up taking out that middle rung of employees."
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