A leaked memo from Forever 21 said it’s reducing “a number of full-time non management positions,” including stock associates, sales associates, store maintenance associates, accessory specialists and cashiers. Effective on Sunday, they would have been reclassified as part-time employees, with the memo adding their hours will not exceed 29.5 hours per week. Those employees’ existing medical, dental, vision and other voluntary plans will end on Aug. 31 and they won’t be accruing paid time off.
Ahead of the Affordable Care Act mandate requiring companies with at least 50 employees to provide health care coverage to full-time employees (anyone working at least 30 hours a week), Forever 21”²s latest move has ignited a heated debate on social media.
Why not? They are only following the law.
Why not? With a sizable percentage of the jobs in this country being barely above minimum wage and health insurance tied to full-time employment, how are people supposed to survive on part-time hours? Retail employs millions and many companies are doing this. Walmart is hiring temps so they don’t have to provide any commitment or stability to workers.
There’s the law and then there’s having a Christian sense of concern for the well-being of others. If you don’t care that companies won’t pay adequate wages or, at the very least, staff with full-time employees, and you’re also against government programs that provide food and health care, then how do you expect the less advantaged to survive? Churches don’t have the means to provide housing, food, and medical care for tens of millions of people consistently.
#2, the part-time work revolution going on is directly related to the government manipulation of medical costs and medical insurance costs. In theory, all of these people are going to be able to purchase “affordable” health insurance beginning soon. In fact, it’s becoming clear that health insurance is going to be out of the reach of many people, even if some of these people work multiple part-time jobs.
If government had gotten involved with computer production andR&D, computers would cost $10000 and be slow with no capacity. If government had stayed out of health care an MRI would cost $10 and doctors would do brain surgery like McCoy did on Spock. Government also has NO Christian value of any kind. In fact our current government deispises Christian values. The power to tax remains the power to destroy, which is what Obamacare is doing to the middle class. Btw, Thats not just my opinion, but the opinion of the heads of the AFL CIO and the Teamsters.
From here:
http://wewalkwithjesus.org/7-christian-businesses/#9B19bBIcmQDl56m7.99
Christianity and trendy club fashion aren’t an immediate pairing we think of. But budget-conscious retailer Forever 21 has been doing it since 1984. Founders Do Won and Jin Sook Chang immigrated from Korea in the early 80s, and found much local support in their church and Jesus Himself. As a privately held company, profits still go to the Changs – who in turn have donated millions of dollars to their church and Christian efforts the world over. Lest a weary shopper miss the opportunity, every retail bag is printed with the most famous and succinct explication of the Gospel; it simply reads “John 3:16.â€
RE: “With a sizable percentage of the jobs in this country being barely above minimum wage and health insurance tied to full-time employment, how are people supposed to survive on part-time hours?”
I’d suggest they vote to delete the people in both parties who brought them government-controlled collectivist healthcare, with all the enormous mandates, regulations, larded-up policies, and massive expense that it has wrought.
That would be a good start.
Otherwise . . . well, there are consequences for those we choose to lead us.