Looking for full-time work? Good luck.

July 15, 2013

After the Obama Administration delayed their infamous Employer Mandate to 2015, one would think that businesses across the country breathed a huge sigh of relief. Except, you’d be wrong.not hiring

Today, the Wall Street Journal reported that a number of businesses, specially restaurants, have cut back on the number of full-time employees and are strictly hiring on a part-time basis thanks to ObamaCare. And in today’s struggling economy, it’s disappointing and so unfortunate that Americans looking for work are limited by part-time hours and worried managers.

The Administration is hoping that businesses across the country will still sign up for the law in 2014, which will force their employees into an exchange, which they will then be paying for. Companies with more than 50 employees or with employees who work more than 40 hours a week are responsible for covering their employee’s health insurance, which we all know is skyrocketing by the day thanks to the law. Hence the reason for part-time hiring – the fewer hours, the lower the cost.

Restaurant owners who have already begun shifting to part-time workers say they will continue that pattern.

“Does the delay change anything for us? Absolutely not,” Mr. Adams of Subway said, explaining that whether his health-care costs go up next year or in 2015, he will have to comply with the law. “We won’t start hiring full-time people.”

We already know that ObamaCare means lost jobs, higher costs and tougher access to health care for millions of Americans. Now employees across the country have to worry about their hours being cut, too?

As Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) so famously said, it’s “a train wreck.” And we couldn’t agree more.