Speakeasy forum: 28 Hours at Wendys, More Hours at McDonalds? Obamacare Fail

I guess he was keeping employees on the job when there were no customers.

Less employees to manage? How come there isn't a management cut? THAT would save them a couple more bucks.

"I'm hoping that I can get some sort of promotion because then I would get my hours

Give them a slap and wake them up.

Remove mandatory healthcare and there would be more jobs! It seems in spite of Obamacare, it's all working to our plan still, LOL!

a non white living in 95.7% white New Brunswick.

I'm not aware of any notable racial problems in either place, but was curious which one you meant.

Do you just naturally assume that if someone is in a minority that they have reason to be nervous?

I've been telling these people for quite a while now that no matter what kinds of screws the liberal/progressive government tries to implement against capitalism with their fines, regulations, new whatever, in order to get, the bigger the company, the more tax and other attorneys they have on staff in order to fine ways around the rules, etc. The smaller companies fold or get eaten/merged into the bigger ones.....less taxes collected all the way around EXCEPT the actual people who wind up footing the bills. BUT, when the screws get tight enough, the companies will lay off or fire people in order to try to stay afloat as long as possible while they find newer ways to get around the garbage being dumped upon them by the greedy liberals, and the tax base from the people themselves now gets smaller and smaller.

Thatcher said.......sooner or later you run out of other people's money........progressives don't care and are so short sighted that they can only see the 'food' in front of them at the moment. The smallest creatures know that you have to store up the food during the summer to get thru the winter.......the progressives can't see that far ahead to know they are going to put everyone, including themselves, into bread lines hoping for other countries to now come to their rescue.

Besides the ObamaCare issue raised in the post, one shouldn't so readily blame it all on ObamaCare alone. It has often been used that time hrs. are reduced in order to keep from paying any benefits or reduce whatever payouts. This falls under the full and part-time employee area. Hours are given to part-time employees just so they reach the magic mark and then that's it. Otherwise, they're considered full time and usually qualify or rewarded the full employee package, etc..

As for the Wendy's given hrs., Wendy is already into restructuring. They probably couldn't provide other than what they did. While the ObamaCare may have crossed "their line" in benefits normally given, it was needed to reduce costs, plain and simple. But, the Wendy's region or franchise given did this, it may not be a corporate plan only local to that franchise. These are outfits that instruct their people to not provide napkins unless asked. -OR- condiments are given per tray and not self-serve counter area.

Benefits: Gary Burdette, Vice President of Operations for the local franchise,
tells the station that his restaurants cannot afford to pay for health
coverage for all their employees under the new Affordable Health Care
Act." >>>> I bet the pinons got the squeeze but the back office or higher-ups aren't complaining. -------Willy

part time work and the reasons are many. I know a few retirees who work 2 or 3 short shift days a week at places like Lowes. I've met a few older gentlemen there whose work made them very knowledgeable of many home repair jobs and are anxious to offer advice. The younger employees might know where in the store to find something but it's these part timers who know how to do things. I've heard that some places like to hire older folks to do part time work. As well as being low maintenance as far as salary and benefit needs, they tend to be friendlier to customers and more reliable as far as actually showing up on time to work. Who can blame places like WalMart for hiring a herd of such people to keep around and fill gaps where career oriented people either do not fit or aren't interested in these jobs?

A longgggg time ago, I used to work for HP as a FE on a "temp basis". Yeah, temp meant I worked full time hrs., but that could go on up to 2-years. Of course, all my benefits were from the agency not HP or greatly reduced from HP. But heck, I fixed HP stuff, left and right and next to reg. HP person or not. Do you think 2-yrs. is a temp. job? That temp process is still being used if applicable. Now, its more of the "contract" principle, you do a task and get laid-off or re-assigned. Contract works means you're own boss, but pay into into your own benefits or what have you, totally leaving the employer off the hook for practically anything that's an employee benefit. Yeah, you're not a real employee but that's how they do it now. I forget who I work for and they make it a stickler that you "represent x-co.", even the end user doesn't know. hahahahahaha!, nervous laugh...nope! -----Willy

I preferred it. As soon as things got boring, you were out the door. I worked at the local utility company for ten years as a temp. The last few years I've worked as many as three jobs part-time to make ends meet or at least wave at each other.

I'm now working full time at a temp agency that does call centers so, when one project is done, you can go to another one.

Diana

IMO, 10 yrs. is just not temp work, its a way for them to take advantage. But, if it works for you, then what can I say, to each they're own. good luck -----Willy