Employers Slash Workers’ Hours to Avoid Obamacare Costs
4th May 2013
My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
Consider the city of Long Beach. It is limiting most of its 1,600 part-time employees to fewer than 27 hours a week, on average. City officials say that without cutting payroll hours, new health benefits would cost up to $2 million more next year, and that extra expense would trigger layoffs and cutbacks in city services.
Even bureaucrats get the Obamassiah blues….