Monday, April 7, 2014

ObamaMESS Work Week: Even the French work 35 Hours-A-Week

Eighteen House Democrats ignored President Obama’s veto threat and helped Republicans pass a bill Thursday that rewrites the health care law to define full-time work as 40 hours per week — and not 30 — out of concern the current rules are forcing Americans to work fewer hours and earn less. 
The chamber approved the Save American Workers Act, 248-179, sending it to the Democrat-controlled Senate, where its far less likely to get a vote.
Despite more than a dozen defectors, most House Democrats said the GOP majority was wasting its time in holding yet another vote to change or strip down Obamacare. Republicans countered that the bill, far from repealing Obamacare, would be a common-sense fix to what they see as a flaw within the law. 
“The French consider 35 hours full-time,” Rep. Tim Griffin, Arkansas Republican, said, saying Americans should at least be able to agree that 40 hours used to be the standard.
Critics say the 30-hour threshold contained in the health care law’s “employer mandate” will harm workers in the food service industry and other sectors because it incentivizes employers to slash hours and avoid the costs of providing health coverage.
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