Then of course the fast-food managers will probably screw over employees by having a fucked up schedule that doesn't allow them to work a second job.

Deer universities, colleges, and other institutes of learning:

Hire your faculty as contractors. Then they have to pay all their taxes themselves: both sides of social security, medicare, income and anything coming out of ACA. All you have to do is cut them a check.

Jim:

There's a niche there, I was talking about with some friends, about writing scheduling software to enable employers and employees to schedule needed coverages.

Because that's exactly what will happen - you'll have people with 2-5 jobs, some might only be 5-8 hours a week, or for peak times, and the jobs themselves will be thinner for coverage.

It's a "simple" enough issue, with enough horsepower and planning, to keep the lists of whose been to what training and is able to do the jobs and is current with regs and policies... A *record-keeping* nightmare, but that's the point of the AMA. Nightmares of record keeping.

"I wonder how many of those adjunct instructors are regretting their vote for Obama about now?"

um, I think I can answer that - many liberals NEVER regret their decisions; they simply find someone else to blame.

I'll place my bet that the "evil" Republicans and/or the "greedy" insurance companies will be blamed.

There's a niche there, I was talking about with some friends, about writing scheduling software to enable employers and employees to schedule needed coverages. -- Unix-Jedi at January 20, 2013 8:11 AM

You're right. But the problem is to make it so that it is business independent. Relatively cheap for both the managers and the employees.

And then something that I have never seen stated. Is it the position's expected hours or the actual hours worked. I've had several jobs in the past that were posted as part time, but I would average 50 hours a week, including overtime. That was so the company didn't have to pay benefits.

It delights me to see you reading Mead.

EVERYONE SHOULD.

Scheduling is a well studied problem in Computer Science...I remember us talking about back college in my class. I think the problem here would be the part of keeping people happy enough.

I expect there will be a lot of things like this. One of my brother's friend who runs a construction type company is looking at breaking it some way or another to avoid having to do things.

The poor treatment of profs also applies to the community college. I dated a lady who was a prof at a CC and she was not paid well and constantly jerked around.

Evidently adjunct professors didn't notice the disconnect between Obama's rhetoric and Obama's actions.

One would think professors would have had plenty of experience with students telling them one thing, and doing or not doing another.

He said he was on your side. He's on his side.

"that wonderful bill that our legislative morons famously said they had to pass so they could figure out what was in it"

Well, now we know what was in it. In addition, the idiot in question doesn't argue with the stupidity of the law itself; he simply says, in effect, that the school shouldn't have cut his hours. "[W]e are public employees at a public institution; we should be the first ones to uphold the law, to set the example."

Um, hey, pally? They are upholding the law. The law requires them to cover your insurance if you work more than 29 hours a week so they cut your hours. That's what employers all over the country are going to do, and it's perfectly legal. Those are called "unintended consequences." Not "unpredicted" or "unknown" consequences, just "unintended." Remember that the next time you vote.

Amy quotes Walter Russell Mead:

"This isn’t the first time we’ve seen serious unintended consequences from Obamacare, and it’s unlikely to be the last. It’s already become painfully obvious that the law’s creators failed to think through its full implications."

Actually, whether intentionally or otherwise, I think the consequences will feed right into the ultimate intentions of the law's creators: mandatory, single-payer coverage. If employers are using what will soon be called "loopholes" to avoid offering coverage through ACA, it won't be long before the call goes out to amend it to fill the gap, and those who wanted a single-payer, universal plan all along, but could never get it honestly, will end up getting it as a reaction against those dastardly fat-cat business-owners who cut hours to avoid having to pay.

There are some drivers of this whole thing for whom this was the intent from Day One: pass a failure and then "fix it."