Forever21 and Obamacare - you are all now part-timers (Limbaugh, Israel, Canada)

[HappyTexan]

Even the Obamacare health exchanges are only hiring people part time with no benefits.
How's that for hypocrisy ?

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by northnut

It's interesting some people think Forever21 is a small business.

Well they are certainly nowhere near what GE or the other big multinationals are.
But there is a new category now called micro multinational.

They only have 500 stores worldwide so they are certainly not in the class of Walmart who has about 8500 stores worldwide.

[amerifree]

Originally Posted by 11thHour

Interesting that yet again, mgmt exempts themselves. Convenient.

the government and President Obama are exempt from a CA is well. What does that tell you?

[northnut]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

Well they are certainly nowhere near what GE or the other big multinationals are.
But there is a new category now called micro multinational.

They only have 500 stores worldwide so they are certainly not in the class of Walmart who has about 8500 stores worldwide.

So only Walmart, GE, McDonald's count, anything less than that is small business? I don't consider a chain that has 500 stores to be small potatoes.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by northnut

So only Walmart, GE, McDonald's count, anything less than that is small business? I don't consider a chain that has 500 stores to be small potatoes.

They call them "micro multinationals"

[middle-aged mom]

Originally Posted by s1alker

I always figured non mgt jobs at malls were always part time.

The overwhelming majority of jobs in retail have been and continue to be part time. The insurance, if any, provided by most retail/food services employers is the high deductible/low cap variety. It does not cover routine sickness and does not make a dent in the expenses of catastrophic, life threatening illness.

There's a reason why 60% of all personal bankruptcies are triggered by uninsured medical expenses.

[middle-aged mom]

Originally Posted by Vejadu

The company's total assets were 1.6 billion, not their profit. The last time they publicly announced profits was 2008, which was $135 million.

It's a private company and have been expanding in Europe and Asia.

No telling what percentage of their income comes from U.S. operations.

[middle-aged mom]

Originally Posted by northnut

So only Walmart, GE, McDonald's count, anything less than that is small business? I don't consider a chain that has 500 stores to be small potatoes.

Forever 21 does not qualify as a small business.

[evilnewbie]

Forever 21 is not a small business, it is a fairly large business... I think McDonalds's COULD be a small business dependent on whether the owner owned that one store, a conglomerate of stores, or is a store built by the McDonalds corporation itself...

[middle-aged mom]

No one knows:

The number of FTE employed by this company, and
The type and cost of insurance provided, and
If the letter is real, and
If real, how many rec'd it, and
If the 2012 employee class action suit for failure to pay for hours worked, is a factor in this.

No reason to allow these uncertainties and that part time employment has been consistently growing since the 60's to influence you, when one can use it to validate their own perceptions about ACA.

The U.S. went from a agriculture base to a manufacturing base to a service based economy a long, long time ago. Retail and food services employs the masses in low wage/benefit part time jobs.