Friday, November 23, 2012

Surprise: PA College Slashes Instructors' Hours to Avoid 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.

“While it is of course the college’s preference to provide coverage to these positions, there simply are not funds available to do so,” said CCAC spokesperson David Hoovler. “Several years of cuts or largely flat funding from our government supporters have led to significant cost reductions by CCAC, leaving little room to trim the college’s budget further.”

The solution, says United Steelworkers representative Jeff Cech, is that adjunct professors should unionize in an attempt to thwart schools seeking similar cost-savings efforts from avoiding Obamacare. (Typical, even though you can't afford it, we will make you do so until you finally go out of business and we win! No jobs.........brilliant)

More @ Breitbart

3 comments:

  1. I just love a happy ending :)
    These same Libs would have called anyone they may have heard telling them this before the election "Over-hypped h8rs who only say this because of their utter h8 for our Chicago Jeezus".

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