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The Affordable Care Act was designed to get more people access to health insurance. But one community college has decided to prevent some adjuncts from being covered by the law by cutting their hours.
Effective Dec. 31, Community College of Allegheny County will cut course loads and hours for some 200 adjunct faculty members and 200 additional employees to avoid paying $6 million in Affordable Care Act-related fees in January 2014.
College President Alex Johnson announced the plan in an e-mail to faculty and staff members last week. “As you probably know, the Affordable Care Act has redefined full-time employees as those working 30 hours or more per week,” Johnson wrote. “As a result, the college must adjust hours of some temporary part-time employees and adjuncts to comply with the new legislation’s conception of part-time employment.”
The college is capping adjuncts’ work load at 10 credits per semester, formerly 12. Temporary part-time employees will be limited to 25 hours per week (permanent part-time employees, already eligible for coverage under the college’s health care plan, remain unaffected).
LOL also take a look at the outraged liberal commentators.
Very few (if any) understood the reason their hours were being reduced. Who would pay for Obamacare for these teachers.... Tuition increases for the students.
With any massive change the free market will have to stabilize, and it will here.
Last I heard, many schools are looking for new, good, teachers. Perhaps they should seek employment elsewhere?
I'm sure many of you know this, but businesses, even universities, will lie about the real reason why they cut back on hours. They've also been known to fire people for an extra .01% profit margin when they are making 20%.
I think most universities will layoff folks because of the lack of access to student loans and grants with more cuts. The student loan bubble is next.
Again, but even if this is true, teachers can find full time teaching employment wherever they are at.
With any massive change the free market will have to stabilize, and it will here.
Last I heard, many schools are looking for new, good, teachers. Perhaps they should seek employment elsewhere?
I'm sure many of you know this, but businesses, even universities, will lie about the real reason why they cut back on hours. They've also been known to fire people for an extra .01% profit margin when they are making 20%.
I think most universities will layoff folks because of the lack of access to student loans and grants with more cuts. The student loan bubble is next.
Again, but even if this is true, teachers can find full time teaching employment wherever they are at.
Government interference and the distortions they create are anything but "free market".
If we were discussing healthcare and education that were free from its strings, you might have a point.
Government interference and the distortions they create are anything but "free market".
If we were discussing healthcare and education that were free from its strings, you might have a point.
No, but the free market accepts them, and adjusts, it will here also. The same thing was said about social security, but the market has adjusted and seniors have a better living standard with their checks (remember, its their money they are getting back) then most of us who work.
The federal government pushed flight. The market responded. Government war spending took us out of the depression. When alcohol was made illegal, the free market adjusted.
This is why we need a Universal Health Care/Insurance disconnected from employment. This minor league college administration is putting ideology ahead of responsibility to its students and faculty.
This is why we need a Universal Health Care/Insurance disconnected from employment. This minor league college administration is putting ideology ahead of responsibility to its students and faculty.
Its nearly impossible to tell the real reasoning behind cutbacks without being privy to their internal books. I think a limited single payer system was a better choice, but you work with what you've got. Obamacare isn't going away, and will be fully implemented next year. Companies can continue to treat employees like ****, and lose good employees, or they'll use it as a chance to trim the fat, and get rid of the low performers.
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Cheap bastards
