Wendy's Franchisee Slashes Employee Hours To Sidestep Obamacare

Thanks Obama!!!

The owner of several Wendy's restaurants in Omaha, Neb., is attempting to sidestep Obamacare by cutting hundreds of workers’ hours so that they will not be legally entitled to health benefits, WOWT NBC reports.

Gary Burdette, vice president of operations for the Wendy's franchise, told the news station that costs associated with Obamacare are forcing the business to reduce hours for around 300 "non-management" employees to 28 hours a week. Scott King is the owner of the restaurants, Wendy's spokesman Danny Lynch told The Huffington Post.

Burdette reportedly said the decision was not an easy one to make, but that the cuts to hours go into effect in two weeks.

Under the Affordable Care Act, employers in the U.S. with more than 50 workers are obliged to offer health benefits to “full-time” employees, or those who work at least 30 hours a week. The new law has prompted some business owners to threaten to reduce employee hours below the weekly threshold in an attempt to avoid the added costs, squeezing low-income workers who depend on hourly pay.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/wendys-obamacare_n_2425066.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

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Everyone that responded is thinking of Wendy's the national company, the people that did this at Wendy's is the actual franchisee.   Huge difference.  This is happening everywhere, and even though the left wing nuts don't want to hear it, the new Obamacare laws are costing small business owners big bucks, and are having to make difficult decisions, like this one. 

Taco bell too. 

OKLAHOMA CITY -

The Taco Bell in Guthrie cuts its full-time employees' hours to avoid mandates under the new health care law.

Now, a mother of three who works at that restaurant is speaking out. Under the Affordable Care Act, any company that has more than 50 full-time workers falls under the new health insurance mandate.

We talked to the company that owns the Guthrie restaurant today, and it confirmed the cuts. Now, employees there aren't allowed to work more than 28 hours a week.

Johnna Davis has worked at the Taco Bell in Guthrie since September. She's seen a 200 dollar cut in her paycheck since a new store policy went into effect.

"What we were being told was one thing, and that was, ‘we're going to offer benefits, we'll just keep all of our full time employees and then come December, their whole story changed," Johnna Davis said.

She says her manager held a meeting before Christmas, saying employees' hours would be cut in the new year.

"They informed everybody that nobody was considered full-time any longer, that everybody was now considered part-time, and [they] would be cutting hours back to 28 hours or less due to Obamacare," Davis said.

Under the Affordable Care Act, companies are required to provide insurance to its full-time employees, or face fines. Davis would've qualified for an insurance plan.

"Several of the other people I work with, some of them are single parents, and we do the best we can, and 28 hours a week just isn't going to cut it for the bills," Davis said.

Now this single mother of 3 is looking for a new full-time job. Nearly 20 employees their have seen their hours cut.

Treadwell Enterprises out of Missouri owns that restaurant in Guthrie. The company told News 9 that it's retaining full time hours for most of its full-time supervisors and managers.

https://www.news9.com/story/20526053/guthrie-taco-bell-worker-speaks-after-hours-cut-to-avoid-health-insurance-mandate?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co