fbpx
Breaking Campus News. Launching Media Careers.
PA College Slashes Worker Hours to Avoid Obamacare

Just what underemployed America needed–an incentive for employers to cut back, thanks to Obamacare.

Pennsylvania’s Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) is slashing the hours of 400 adjunct instructors, support staff, and part-time instructors to dodge paying for Obamacare.

“It’s kind of a double whammy for us because we are facing a legal requirement [under the new law] to get health care and if the college is reducing our hours, we don’t have the money to pay for it,” said adjunct biology professor Adam Davis.

On Tuesday, CCAC employees were notified that Obamacare defines full-time employees as those working 30 hours or more per week and that on Dec. 31 temporary part-time employees will be cut back to 25 hours. The move will save an estimated $6 million.

We know the majority of academics in the U.S. give their undying support to Obama and all his liberal policies. I wonder what the ones losing their jobs or having hours cut as a direct consequence of Obamacare will say now? Most likely, they’ll blame it on Bush.

Read the full story at Breitbart.com

Click here to Like The College Fix on Facebook.

Please join the conversation about our stories on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, MeWe, Rumble, Gab, Minds and Gettr.