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Operative Faith reveals that Kroger will soon join the ranks of Darden Restaurants and slash the hours of its non-exempt (hourly) workers to avoid millions in Obamacare penalties.

To give you a sense of Krogers size and importance, its sales last year were $90 billion and it employs nearly 350,000 people. Most of its jobs are hourly and the vast majority of workers are neither millionaires or billionaires.

Faith is a mid-level manager at Kroger and reports the dire news:

Last week we found out that, beginning in January, any employee who is not full-time at that point, will be limited to 28 hours per week and all new hires will be subject to the same policy.

Currently, part-time employees can work as many hours as needed.

Many Kroger employees, I believe, will be shocked to find out about this new policy.

What this means is that Obamacare will stop tens of thousands of Kroger employees most of whom depend on and need the money from working more than 28 hours!

Kroger is doing this to avoid paying for full-time healthcare for employees who currently only receive part-time benefits. And they will not get hit with the $3000 penalty.

My own area is a good example. I work with four people who currently get about 36 to 40 hours a week, but they are considered part-time by Kroger and receive limited benefits. Now, they will either have to find another part-time job or they will quit and find a full-time job.

Doug, you need to get this out before Tuesday. People need to understand.

Also, you need to send this to Drudge. This needs to go national.

Marxism might make the rich poorer, but it makes the poor poorer as well.

 
Centralized, authoritarian command-and-control governments always fail. Always.

Hard-working employees of Kroger and Darden are among the thousands of casualties of Obamacare. And these hourly workers are far from being members of the evil 1%.

And this is only the beginning.

Vote accordingly in November. Repeal Obamacare.



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Already proven to be untrue.

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In fact, operative Faith made this all up to get back at me because I got drunk and made out with her sister Chastity. Her dad threatened to shoot me with a shotgun. Luckily I filmed the whole incident on my iPad and he was arrested 9 days later by the sheriff department. Now he lives in New Jersey with a one-eyed collie named Rufus.

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Already proven to be untrue.

 

Proven untrue or not proven true? They are not the same thing.



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Kroger has to schedule according to its existing CBAs.

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Our contracts give part timers with 32 hours health insurance, so really doesn't make sense for them to do this. They are already giving most of them insurance.



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Actually, this has proven to be TRUE if you read the rules in ObamaCare.  HOWEVER, you shouldn't have to worry about this until after your contract expires. Your current contract should overrule the new mandate for now.



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"The rules of ObamaCare" do not make this statement, that the company will be slashing part time hours, true. At all. It's hard to foresee what effect this will have on future negotiations, but it's hard to imagine any local giving up seniority scheduling language.

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"The rules of ObamaCare" do not make this statement, that the company will be slashing part time hours, true. At all.

Wait, so you honestly believe Kroger is going to make all those part time employees full timers?

All I gotta say is, you have A LOT of faith in Kroger.



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No, I just understand how scheduling language in the contract works. Other places might have different ones, but of the locals that operate in this area, this literally would not work without hiring dozens more people to cut existing high and medium seniority folks down to the minimum.

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this literally would not work without hiring dozens more people to cut existing high and medium seniority folks down to the minimum.

Which means Kroger will need to hire more people. Or, more people will have to work more with less secheduled hours. Or, people from other departments will have to do jobs in other departments for the "needs of the business."

You didn't answer the question directly though. Do you honestly believe Kroger is going to make all those part timers into full timers? If not, what are they going to do if not schedule them for less than 30 hours to ensure that they're not full time?



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I don't know about in your case, or what kind of steward you have, but at my store I'm going to fight them tooth and nail to make sure they flow the CBA, and if they do try hiring more people, that they follow the proper language regarding seniority scheduling, and lay the new people off if need be. It costs Kroger more to have more people; they may decide its not cost effective. There are other variables in there, but until the language in my contract changes, I'm holding them to it to the letter.

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I don't know about in your case, or what kind of steward you have, but at my store I'm going to fight them tooth and nail to make sure they flow the CBA, and if they do try hiring more people, that they follow the proper language regarding seniority scheduling, and lay the new people off if need be. It costs Kroger more to have more people; they may decide its not cost effective. There are other variables in there, but until the language in my contract changes, I'm holding them to it to the letter.

Um, I believe this is the whole point.

Until the contract changes.

In other words, we shouldn't have to worry until after January AND when our contracts expire.



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Until the language in the contract changes. And I don't see the unions willingly giving up seniority language. But who knows.

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How can they legally do this?



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How can they legally do this?

How can Obama do all this? Corruption. Obamacare was never legally passed.

If you're asking how Kroger can cut hours to 28, well, I don't think they have to until the current contracts expire. After they expire, language will have to change to reflect federal law.

In other words, a lot of part timers will become full timers, and the union contracts will have to be updated and state full time is now 30 hours.



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