{"id":12047,"date":"2012-11-23T09:28:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T14:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=12047"},"modified":"2015-05-28T17:44:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T21:44:59","slug":"pa-college-slashes-worker-hours-to-avoid-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/pa-college-slashes-worker-hours-to-avoid-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"PA College Slashes Worker Hours to Avoid Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just what underemployed America needed&#8211;an incentive for employers to cut back, thanks to Obamacare.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Pennsylvania&#8217;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.<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;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&#8217;t have the money to pay for it,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/stories\/local\/neighborhoods-city\/health-care-law-brings-double-dose-of-trouble-for-ccac-part-time-profs-662697\/?print=1\">said<\/a> adjunct biology professor Adam Davis.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We know the majority of academics in the U.S. give their undying support to Obama and all his liberal policies. I wonder what the ones losing their jobs or having hours cut as a direct consequence of Obamacare will say now? Most likely, they&#8217;ll blame it on Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2012\/11\/21\/Surprise-PA-College-Slashes-Hours-To-Avoid-Obamacare\"><em>Breitbart.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thecollegefix\">Click here to Like <em>The College Fix<\/em> on Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n            <div class=\"article-truncate-control\">\n                <button class=\"show-complete-article\">\n                    Read More                <\/button>\n            <\/div>\n\n        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania&#8217;s Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) is slashing the hours of 400 adjunct instructors and staff in order to avoid paying for Obamacare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1367],"tags":[2178,685,3035,964,2400],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Oh4L-38j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12048,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions\/12048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}