Wendys and Taco Bell cutting full time employees' hours to avoid Obamacare provision

....Adding Taco Bell, and Wendys to my inedible list....right after Papa Johns.


I feel these companies should have been taking care of the employees in the first place, and though they have the right to decide on profit over doing so...I have the option to get a Pizza somewhere else.

myp said:

Boycotts are hardly the solution. And you can't really blame them for this- it is a policy failure (if you think they should be buying insurance for all workers).

By the way, Taco Bell is owned by Yum which also owns Pizza Hut, Long John Silvers, KFC, Wingstreet and I am sure some other things.

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I know...Yum brands lives in my city (hell our new stadium is call the Yum center). I am not boycotting per say, I am simply choosing options I will enjoy more.

Oh...by the way, good 'ol Papa John lived here too, and the freakin. Colonel is all over downtown buildings.

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As do I....given there is a viable alternative in place.

Health insurance is available via many other sources other than an employer. It is (or used to be) an additional benefit, and an employer was not obligated to provide it, like paid vacations, personal days or sick days.

Coming from the businesses end of this subject, most of the restaurants have extremely high turnover, and the administrative aspect of providing benefits such as health insurance to a majority of part-time, second job, minimim wage earners (plus a little) is not in the realm of reality.

I must smile at those who feel cutting people to part time is something new.... it's not. It started long before the ACA. It's called being economically feasible in a economically tightened environment. It's just the media painting evil across the corporate world.

This is all very interesting, what the fast food places are doing with regard to this issue. Especially in view of the fact, if I have it correct, the government picks up the tab for the first three years, then 90% thereafter. I wonder if the owners had relatives working at their company, would they have health insurance?