Post by Guadalupe on Jan 24, 2015 23:50:16 GMT -5
Of course we all saw it coming but Pelosi and Obama pushed it through anyway.
www.onenewsnow.com/business/2015/01/15/job-openings-on-the-rise-but-not-for-full-time-workers#.VMR0hmTF8b0
Job openings on the rise, but not for full-time workers
Chris Woodward (OneNewsNow.com) Thursday, January 15, 2015
A labor policy analyst has questions about reports of rising numbers of new job openings.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, new job openings rose nearly three percent in November, leading to the highest number of job openings in 14 years.
James Sherk, senior policy analyst in labor economics for The Heritage Foundation, says that is what the data is showing so far.
"The question is, 'Why is it taking so long? Why did it take so long after the recession?'” he asks. “This is five-and-a-half years after the recession officially ended.
"You know, after most recessions you have a very strong recovery, two years, three years out. And now, it's taken us five-and-a-half-years to finally begin to start clawing back the job losses and get back to where we were before the recession hit. It's been a painfully slow recovery."
Sherk adds that part-time jobs have fully recovered from the recession, but full-time jobs have not come back. "There are fewer full-time jobs in America today than there were before the recession started," he tells OneNewsNow.
Sherk believes that may only get worse when the next phase of the employer mandate under ObamaCare hits. The employer mandate is the requirement that businesses provide insurance to employees working more than 30 hours per week. Businesses with 100 or more workers had to comply by January 1 of this year. Businesses with 50 to 99 employees have until January 1, 2016.
"So, what we're likely to see in the coming months is a lot more employers cutting employee hours and not giving them full-time positions because the government has made it more expensive for them to employ full-time workers," he says.
Republicans in Congress say the healthcare law's 30-hour requirement is encouraging companies to cut workers' hours. The House has approved a bill to restore the 40-hour workweek. The White House says President Obama would veto the measure. According to the White House, there is no evidence the law has caused a broad shift to part-time work. However, groups like the National Retail Federation, which supports the measure approved by the House, says the change is difficult to measure statistically because the mandate just took effect.
Chris Woodward (OneNewsNow.com) Thursday, January 15, 2015
A labor policy analyst has questions about reports of rising numbers of new job openings.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, new job openings rose nearly three percent in November, leading to the highest number of job openings in 14 years.
James Sherk, senior policy analyst in labor economics for The Heritage Foundation, says that is what the data is showing so far.
"The question is, 'Why is it taking so long? Why did it take so long after the recession?'” he asks. “This is five-and-a-half years after the recession officially ended.
"You know, after most recessions you have a very strong recovery, two years, three years out. And now, it's taken us five-and-a-half-years to finally begin to start clawing back the job losses and get back to where we were before the recession hit. It's been a painfully slow recovery."
Sherk adds that part-time jobs have fully recovered from the recession, but full-time jobs have not come back. "There are fewer full-time jobs in America today than there were before the recession started," he tells OneNewsNow.
Sherk believes that may only get worse when the next phase of the employer mandate under ObamaCare hits. The employer mandate is the requirement that businesses provide insurance to employees working more than 30 hours per week. Businesses with 100 or more workers had to comply by January 1 of this year. Businesses with 50 to 99 employees have until January 1, 2016.
"So, what we're likely to see in the coming months is a lot more employers cutting employee hours and not giving them full-time positions because the government has made it more expensive for them to employ full-time workers," he says.
Republicans in Congress say the healthcare law's 30-hour requirement is encouraging companies to cut workers' hours. The House has approved a bill to restore the 40-hour workweek. The White House says President Obama would veto the measure. According to the White House, there is no evidence the law has caused a broad shift to part-time work. However, groups like the National Retail Federation, which supports the measure approved by the House, says the change is difficult to measure statistically because the mandate just took effect.
www.onenewsnow.com/business/2015/01/15/job-openings-on-the-rise-but-not-for-full-time-workers#.VMR0hmTF8b0