Americans are working less

[ghak99]

A lot of retail now has strict policies to keep their employees below 40 hours. There's other company policies that limits many employees to under 32? hours. This limit is set based on state definitions of a full time employees.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by ghak99

A lot of retail now has strict policies to keep their employees below 40 hours. There's other company policies that limits many employees to under 32? hours. This limit is set based on state definitions of a full time employees.

Most states that I know of are either 28 hours or 32. It's so they don't have to pay full-time benefits, namely health insurance. Another side "benefit" of the ACA. People are working two or even three jobs and are still forced to buy expensive government insurance.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by ghak99

A lot of retail now has strict policies to keep their employees below 40 hours. There's other company policies that limits many employees to under 32? hours. This limit is set based on state definitions of a full time employees.

That was actually in place all the way back when I was in high school. If I got close to 40 hours at the dishwasher/cook/busboy job I had, they'd sub me out. The employees said this was so we wouldn't get any paid vacation, but I suspect maybe there were some other benefits as well. Maybe overtime pay? The boss would never even let us get close to ensure that we didn't accidentally sneak over the hour limit.

In my first job after college, I was at a huge company, and at some point the overseers bumped us up to 50 or 60 hours for about six months to try to meet some important deadline. I got time-and-a-half pay, and if I had smoked cigars I would have been lighting them with hundred-dollar bills. I felt rich whenever I'd see those paychecks.