Wendy's Franchisee Slashes Employee Hours To Sidestep Obamacare

Thanks Obama!!!

The owner of several Wendy's restaurants in Omaha, Neb., is attempting to sidestep Obamacare by cutting hundreds of workers’ hours so that they will not be legally entitled to health benefits, WOWT NBC reports.

Gary Burdette, vice president of operations for the Wendy's franchise, told the news station that costs associated with Obamacare are forcing the business to reduce hours for around 300 "non-management" employees to 28 hours a week. Scott King is the owner of the restaurants, Wendy's spokesman Danny Lynch told The Huffington Post.

Burdette reportedly said the decision was not an easy one to make, but that the cuts to hours go into effect in two weeks.

Under the Affordable Care Act, employers in the U.S. with more than 50 workers are obliged to offer health benefits to “full-time” employees, or those who work at least 30 hours a week. The new law has prompted some business owners to threaten to reduce employee hours below the weekly threshold in an attempt to avoid the added costs, squeezing low-income workers who depend on hourly pay.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/07/wendys-obamacare_n_2425066.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

why do rightwingers celebrate companies that make a shitload of money selling marked up, nasty, unhealthy food that increases rates of obesity, diabetes and many other diseases making our health costs go up exponentially when that company advertises to the world that they don't want to offer basic healthcare to their employees?

So let me get this straight....Employees that previously didn't have health care would now be obliged to be provided health care. However, since the employer doesn't want to take on the added costs of providing any type of health care for his employees, is now cutting their hours to avoid providing basic health care for the employees he supposedly cares so much about? Am I understanding that correctly? 

What a load of crap.

Offering benefits to employees does not mean they have to shoulder the cost.

As usual the people who NEED benefits the most, people like these hard working employees earning garbage wages get left in the dust.

Moronic article and conclusion.

Democrats prefer Wendy's, Republicans go for Subway ...

CNN Money ..

..https://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/13/partisan-brands/

Everyone that responded is thinking of Wendy's the national company, the people that did this at Wendy's is the actual franchisee.   Huge difference.  This is happening everywhere, and even though the left wing nuts don't want to hear it, the new Obamacare laws are costing small business owners big bucks, and are having to make difficult decisions, like this one. 

it shows how uneducated the franchisee is. At this point Wendy's should revoke his franchise for such moronic actions.

This is a perfect opportunity for all of you to get together, invest in your own francises and make this guy look like the vile soul that he is.  I mean its not like during startup most francise owners absorb the risk on their own shoulders.  Funny though, I didn't see any comments like this when the recent "left-winger" sold his network for $500 million in order to prevent paying the extra  incurred taxes his "progressive" coherts recentlypushed through.  I sure it was innocently overlooked.

I read the your excerpt, I understand these are franchises. I'm sure the owner of the franchises is doing well since he has 300 or so employees. Now they have an opportunity for health care and he would rather cut their hours do he doesn't have to meet those qualifications as oppose to providing health care.

He seems like a d-i-c-k that doesn't care about his employees. I guess that his right, I just can't understand why you would support and defend someone that does that. Plus how many of his employees are h.s or college kids that don't need his insurance anyway?

What we need are laws dictating how much money a franchise owner is allowed to make each year. I say everybody should have the same amount of money to spend each month. No one should ever for any any reason be allowed to have more money to spend than anyone else in America.

I KNOW!!!

We should do away with paychecks. Everyone in America should be issued a "Monetary Card". This would be a card that allows an American access to his allotted money each month. Say every American is allowed $5000 a month. At the beginning of the month everybody has $5000 dollars. Automatically your rent/mortgage is deducted. Your electric and water are deducted. The rest is for you to buy food, clothing and enjoy life with.


How about that???

What is "within reason"?

Specifically, Exactly... How much money should an American be allowed to make?

And when we start to limit the amount of money that can be made should we also limit the amount of money a person is allowed to inherit?

What about lottery prizes of $100 million dollars and more? Should the winners not be allowed a lump sum option? Should they be limited to your judgement of the maximum amount of money an American is allowed to have per year?

Please, I do so, so, so want to know how much an American should be allowed to make each year, "within reason". What is the monetary amount?

Ktrain,

If you ever decide to run for office you will make a first rate politician.

First off, Romney got 47% of the popular vote. He's not far off the lead so don't act like the left has all the answers or the left had a huge majority.

Secondly, the reason the right has been against this obamacare from the beginning is because we've already seen this outcome through rational thinking. This was predicted by right wingers since obamacare was a twinkle in Hussein's eye.

Wallstreetcappers is correct in saying that the company doesn't necessarily have to pay for the health care. The problem is that people working at places like Wendy's full time probably don't want to spend $200 - 300 of their own money to pay for health care costs.

Any person with a brain would've understood that a fricken lunch at a fast food joint is already overpriced to begin with. Wendy's or any other place like that doesn't have the revenue stream to pay for health care for all their employees AND still pay for overhead costs and all.

One more thing...Wendy's, and places like it are only designed to have low skilled workers and college students working there. It's only because of the problems caused by the lack of manufacturing jobs and high skilled work that has changed the fast food dynamic.

The best health care I ever had is when I worked at ALCOA. So quit trying to give big corps a bad name.

Bottom line is if you didn't foresee this sort of thing happening then you are a complete idiot.

Once again, you're not putting yourself in these people's shoes. $200-$300 is probably a lot of money for those people. Now a President offers them a way to get health care through their employer. What do you think they are going to do? Who do you think they are going to vote for?

The moronic ones will vote for the dullard that tells them what their ignorant mind understands.

Do you really think that right wingers don't want the health care problems solved?

Right wingers understand that wanting to solve and solving are two different things.

I think you need to do some more homework regarding Obamacare so that you don't get in over your head.

Did you know that a portion of every home sold will have an obamacare tax on it?

Do you know how much each Franchise location pays per month for overhead already? Do you know how overpriced a fricken burger and fries are already....before Obamacare? Wendy's pays several hundred million in just advertising alone per year to stay competitive and also give franchisee's more bang for their buck.

Do you want to pay 15 bucks for a combo meal? I thought $6.50 was overpriced for an avg meal.

There are far better ways to deal with health care costs than this travesty we know as Obamacare.

I hope you don't plan on becoming a business person because you have a great deal to understand. I'm not trying to be condescending.

As I said before. Fast food joints are for high school and college students. The quicker you all understand that the better.

Did you know that a portion of every home sold will have an obamacare tax on it?

I meant to say investment income. This is just a myth. My bad.

Taco bell too. 

 

OKLAHOMA CITY -

The Taco Bell in Guthrie cuts its full-time employees' hours to avoid mandates under the new health care law.

Now, a mother of three who works at that restaurant is speaking out. Under the Affordable Care Act, any company that has more than 50 full-time workers falls under the new health insurance mandate.

We talked to the company that owns the Guthrie restaurant today, and it confirmed the cuts. Now, employees there aren't allowed to work more than 28 hours a week.

Johnna Davis has worked at the Taco Bell in Guthrie since September. She's seen a 200 dollar cut in her paycheck since a new store policy went into effect.

"What we were being told was one thing, and that was, ‘we're going to offer benefits, we'll just keep all of our full time employees and then come December, their whole story changed," Johnna Davis said.

She says her manager held a meeting before Christmas, saying employees' hours would be cut in the new year.

"They informed everybody that nobody was considered full-time any longer, that everybody was now considered part-time, and [they] would be cutting hours back to 28 hours or less due to Obamacare," Davis said.

Under the Affordable Care Act, companies are required to provide insurance to its full-time employees, or face fines. Davis would've qualified for an insurance plan.

"Several of the other people I work with, some of them are single parents, and we do the best we can, and 28 hours a week just isn't going to cut it for the bills," Davis said.

Now this single mother of 3 is looking for a new full-time job. Nearly 20 employees their have seen their hours cut.

Treadwell Enterprises out of Missouri owns that restaurant in Guthrie. The company told News 9 that it's retaining full time hours for most of its full-time supervisors and managers.

https://www.news9.com/story/20526053/guthrie-taco-bell-worker-speaks-after-hours-cut-to-avoid-health-insurance-mandate?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co

More uninformed stupidity..

Who would have thought the owners of that outstanding, nutritious place would make such a simplistic error.