Obamacare: Substitute teachers hours are being cut
The Obamacare hits just keep on coming. We have already seen businesses, most notably in the restaurant industry, cut part time employee hours in order to avoid Obamacare penalties and now it is beginning to affect substitute teachers as well. This is happening because in their infinite wisdom the Democrats redefined the definition of a full time employee to any employee working 30 or more hours for the purposes of Obamacare.
According to this story Obamacare will cost this one school district between $600,000 and $7 million dollars so naturally they have made the painful decision to limit the hours available to individual substitute teachers, and other districts are also doing the same. It will not end here, more are sure to follow.
Need I remind you which party the teachers unions support? I did not think so. Of course the Obama regime will probably say this is a good thing because it means the school districts will have to hire more teachers in order to fill the hours which would have been filled by the teachers which have had their hours cut. I guess this means Obamacare will create new jobs after all…..
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Thank you.
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You’re welcome.
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Between $600k and $7 million? I’d have to say they sure didn’t sharpen their pencils very much before squealing about the cost of insurance that actually covers illness.
Otherwise, it’s interesting to see the legnths to which various enterprises will go either to deny healthcare to employees (kind of like what WalMart’s been doing all along) or to meet legitimate additional costs.
I believe that a lot of what we’re hearing is companies trimming staff and cutting costs and blaming the ACA because it’s a convenient scapegoat. Especially when it comes to schools, by the way, I also think we’re hearing a massive amount of hypocrisy – we want teachers to teach our children and provide them with school supplies from their own earnings – which seem frequently to be under assault. Now we’re talking about reducing their hours to avoid the cost of covering them for healthcare. If they cannot afford it from their pay, we’ll should the cost anyway through our taxes – or are the school districts cynicallt assuming it’s okay because their teachers’ burden is being spread across the entire country instead of just their county? And then, of course, God forbid some lunatic shows up and starts spewing bullets, we want teachers to shield their charges with their bodies . . .
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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I found the huge discrepancy in their estimate to be odd as well, it seems as if they should be able to pinpoint it more accurately. And these are the people teaching our children? 🙂
School budgets are already stretch thin which is part of the reason why the schools are not providing many of the supplies and now we are telling them they have to provide insurance on top of it all?
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I agree, thinly-stretched school budgets are a great part of the problem. It’s too bad so many of our citizens have acquired the feeling that taxation, regardless of its purpose, is theft. Here in Georgia, you get the feeling that even the smallest increase in property taxes to meet the costs of providing a quality education will result in marches on the county legislative chambers, complete with torches and pitchforks.
And then there are plenty of people who think that they should be exempt from paying school tax because they haven’t got any children in school . . .
Ah, well, what’re you gonna do?
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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There is no doubt that while none of us really like paying taxes that there are legitimate reasons to pay taxes. Here in New Hampshire our property taxes are high, but without an income or a sales tax it is really the only way for the state collect revenue. I will take that over the promise of implementing a sales or income tax on the promise it will lower our property taxes because I know that once a sales or income tax is passed out property taxes will not go down as promised. We will simply being paying more taxes.
The people who complain about paying taxes for education when they don’t have children do not realize, or age ignoring the fact, that we are all better off when the populace is better educated.
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Well, I’m never going to tell you that a tax, once instituted, will one day be rescinded.
And I made the point about the meaning of a well-educated populace once by telling my friend that the police and firefighters generally attend public school . . . as do nursing home attendants. She finally got the point!
Take good care and may God bless us all!
TGY
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Why sure, substitute teachers will no longer be “locked in” to their jobs and be free from the shackles of an actual career.
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Yes, it is a win-win for everybody! 😉
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I am a recent transplant to New Hampshire from Massachusetts (or taxachusetts) and I can tell you from experience that they raise their state taxes often which has become a detriment to the middle class in that state. The Govt. always finds reasons to put a tax on something. For this reason, I left that state for the Freedoms in New Hampshire “Live Free or Die” has become my new motto. From experience, be careful what you wish for, as it is only rosy to capture the populace and once captured they own you!
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Substitute teachers work about 6hrs 40min a day ( 40 minutes less if you subtract lunch), so when using the Actual Hours Calculation and the measure of 130 hours a month average then there is no need/reason to cut hours they just have to choose the correct calculation. There are usually only 2 months (Oct, March ) that have the possibility of more than 130 hours and when averaged no one would be eligible. I wonder why this is not more widely known.
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