{"id":39645,"date":"2013-08-20T02:37:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T02:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/behind_the_storefront_forever_21_under_fire_for_shifting_full-time_employee\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T02:37:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T02:37:34","slug":"behind_the_storefront_forever_21_under_fire_for_shifting_full-time_employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39645","title":{"rendered":"(Behind the Storefront) Forever 21 under fire for shifting full-time employees to part time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leaked memo from Forever 21 said it\u2019s reducing \u201ca number of full-time non management positions,\u201d\u009d 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\u2019 existing medical, dental, vision and other voluntary plans will end on Aug. 31 and they won\u2019t be accruing paid time off.<\/p>\n<p>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\u201d\u00b2s latest move has ignited a heated debate on social media.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.marketwatch.com\/behindthestorefront\/2013\/08\/19\/forever-21-under-fire-for-shifting-full-time-employees-to-part-time\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leaked memo from Forever 21 said it\u2019s reducing \u201ca number of full-time non management positions,\u201d\u009d 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<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39645\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,175,589,149,168,104,597,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-anthropology","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}