So this has been the case for over twenty years now with people “discovering” this well known and well documented practice of keeping employees below full time to keep them from giving benefits every couple of years. Hell it was exactly like this when my sister was working there as a teenager.
I mean this is kind of what is wrong with America honestly, memories of a gold fish and one of the reasons why no progress ever gets made.
Tying benefits to employers is idiotic. Even if you want to tie benefits to work requirements, this system fucks the millions of people with multiple part-time jobs.
it’s accomplishing exactly what it’s designed to
Capitalism is all about a few people getting all the capital, if you’re not owning something you’re the worker that they exploit to do so. Billionaires and trillionaires are inevitable in such a system.
Although, the billionaires and trillionaires are a symptom of the endgame. By far, most of our billionaires attained their wealth though financialization, that is to say financial shenanigans that do not produce value and wreak havoc on the economy.
An example is private equity, which is what happened to Toys 'R Us, Radio Shack, Claires, and countless other brands.
Normally, once the feds detect financial shenanigans, we outlaw them under fraud. But the owner class reacts by capturing regulatory agencies and/or defunding them so they can’t enforce their regulations. Citizens United was the death knell for the US.
It’s going to take ending the owner class to get out of this mess, and if wait too long, the ultra wealthy are rich enough to do the same thing to the rest of the developed world.
And we have to do it before we run out of water.
Yeah, it’s a vestigial concept that went into overdrive due to WWII that needs to just F all the way off at this point.
Yup. I worked at Target circa 2010 and it was the same. I was scheduled 38 hours a week, and you would get written up if you were late clocking out.
I remember when I was working at McDondald’s and they never worked me above 32 hours typically. Back then it was 40 as the cutoff. That they’re allowed to scuzz their way around the law through this means we’ll never get equity with our system. They must be punished for such practices.
This is not a new thing. There’s a documentary from 2005 called “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” that goes into detail about similar actions they were taking back then.
I’m sure it’s gotten progressively worse these last 20 years since
I don’t think it has gotten progressively worse, only because it couldn’t.
All of my life I been lied to
Just found out my boss makes 500 times what I do
And still wants to cut my hours back
To 39 and three quarters ‘cause 40 gets you a health plan
And I got a feelin’ I’m a need it
Losin’ feelin’ in my knees and my lower back
And I’m going back, trapped like a lower class clown
Hold a rat down, so we kill each other over cheddar
Keep us hungry so we never organize for nothing better
Just make it through the day, make it through the week– You Say Millionaire Like It’s a Good Thing, Guante
Many places won’t rent to someone that cannot prove monthly income greater than 3x the rent.
This happened to me. I provided a bank statement that proved I had a year of rent in savings…
its like a competitive job applicant in these places.
HCOl im near does this, theres like a job-like application for some of these rental units. not a problem for most high paying tech, or a nurse. but even then they would rather live somewhere cheaper and usually have another high income partner.
Walmart plans for extraordinarily high turnover. If the median worker is there longer than a year, they are overpaying for labor. If less than a year, they’ll bring on new workers at higher rates than their experienced workers. Why give the experienced people higher pay when they’ve proven they will stay on at less?
Walmart is one of the scummiest employers on the planet, and they have an outsized influence on the rest of the labor market.
Tips help the owner not the employee.
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Depends greatly on the location, honestly. In some restaurants you can get over $500 per night, which is more than what a “pays a living wage” would pay.
Why are there even brackets and thresholds for benefits? It should be a linear scale. 1 hour of work = 1/40th, 29h = 29/40, 30h = 30/40th etc.
Or perhaps the “benefits” should be from government and not employer.
Because fuck the poor!
Also we have a similar, but nowhere near a bad so called benefit cliff in the uk
healthcare is also a workplace benefit in the u.s. too
sounds like the required benefits are limiting peoples income and companies are just finding way around it. I still don’t know why Americans think medical should be tied to employment. Why not remove these required benefits from the employer and find another solution.
Luckily there are multiple functioning health care systems around the world to take inspiration from.
Medi-caid, snap, other benefits that are “Welfare” have very low “max income” mostly less than 20k/year for most states, and they calculate based on your gross income per month, not after adjusted tax income. most people earning that little often arnt living on thier own, or if they do , its usually because they are retire dwith substantial savings, but still need to work.
I think they’re doing it because they’re afraid Americans are going to dump traditional work and go do work or a craft they actually enjoy whatever that might be. Or it could just be the old puritan mentality cemented in the stupid minds of the average selfish citizen.
There’s a lot of reason it’s tied to employment, and it’s all basically to make sure most Americans are basically poor feudal peasants.
We live in the modern equivalent of a feudal monarchy, and if you’re not contributing as a member of the labor class then you won’t be taken care of. Simple as that. Laboratores must labor.
And we simply turn our heads and pretend the rest don’t exist. Those that don’t labor are shunned, and will die off of infection or starvation or due to the elements.
And then we say it’s their fault for being lazy.
nO 1 wAnTs 2 wOrK nE mOaR!!!1!11!
Pro tip: They never did.
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Otherwise known as corporate welfare.
When I worked as a restocker at a grocery store, they planned the majority of us for 3 hours a day (we were mostly minors so we didn’t know better), from 17:00 till 20:00. Because, at 3.5 hours, you were entitled to a 30 minute break, and even tho it was an unpaid break they still didn’t want you to take it. Did you get a lot more stuff then normal and so you had to work overtime? Tough shit, you still ain’t getting that break even tho it’s now 21:00
Sometimes they would even cut some people their hours back if they felt that they weren’t working hard enough (again, we were minors, some of us making 4 bucks an hour, they were that petty). Fuck this system
Seems the answer would be to end exemptions like this for companies with gross revenues or profits over certain figures that people smarter than me can figure out.
Stop tying health benefits to employment. Universal healthcare solves about 90% of this problem.
or nationalize them and make the workers own the corp
Even at 32 hours I don’t get any benefits at Walmart.
not even the 5-finger discount.?
Shareholder profits over people. Got to find Grandpa’s golf outings in retirement… 🫠 I can only imagine them attempting to get healthcare
We have been cowed too much to take back everything that has been stolen from us 😒
