by Lennie Jarratt. President Obama has once again decided to change a law without Congress. This time he is delaying the employer Obamacare mandate until 2016 for companies with 50-99 employees. He also lowered the percentage of companies of 100 or more to have to offer 70% of it’s employees coverage instead of 95%. If you remember ... MORE
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Employers Forced To Get IRS Permission For Layoffs
by Lennie Jarratt. President Obama has once again decided to change a law without Congress. This time he is delaying the employer Obamacare mandate until 2016 for companies with 50-99 employees. He also lowered the percentage of companies of 100 or more to have to offer 70% of it’s employees coverage instead of 95%. If you remember ... MOREHeritage Foundation: Facts About The Minimum Wage
It reduces opportunities to gain experience. Studies find raising the minimum wage does not reduce poverty. It is a completely ineffective anti-poverty policy. The primary value of minimum-wage jobs is that they are learning jobs. They teach inexperienced employees basic employment skills that make them more productive and enable ... MOREWalter E Williams: Politics And Minimum Wage
Ira Stoll: Obama's Bogus Case For A "Decent Wage"
The president's latest bad economic idea. President Obama’s high-wage vision of the American economy could make a consumer’s typical shopping trip nearly five times more expensive. Think that’s an exaggeration? Obama promised recently
that for the “remainder of his presidency” he would focus his
energy on “asking our businesses ... MOREJefferson Paine: The Deception Of Minimum Wage Laws
An effective tool for political manipulation. Government does not create wealth -- it merely taxes and consumes it. It may create 'government jobs' but it cannot create real wealth. Governments specialize in bureaucracy and welfare. Real wealth is created by real jobs profitably producing things of value in the marketplace. ... MOREDiane Stafford: Obesity's Becomes Concern For Employers
Fat employees get extra rights. Ignore an obese employee’s request for a larger desk chair and prepare to be sued for violating disability accommodations law. Don’t hire an overweight woman because she doesn’t fit your corporate sales image and face a possible discrimination lawsuit. Call your employee “Fatty” instead of his ... MOREDan Mangan: Poll Finds ObamaCare Is Already Hurting Jobs
No surprise here. Small business owners' fear of the effect of the new health-care reform law on their bottom line is prompting many to hold off on hiring and even to shed jobs in some cases, a recent poll found. "We were startled because we know that employers were concerned about the Affordable Care Act and the effects it ... MORERaising Minimum Wage Will Kill Jobs For Young Millennials
by Evan Feinberg. Young Americans looking for work could receive another crushing blow this week as the U.S. Senate will decide Thursday whether to confirm Thomas Perez as the next secretary of labor. Perez has been touted as President Obama's point man for a national minimum wage increase that will disproportionately harm Millennials. ... MOREWilliam Dunkelberg: Why Raising Minimum Wage Kills Jobs
The minimum wage is a major anti-jobs policy. Ten states have announced
an increase in their minimum wage effective January 1, mostly because
their legislation requires an adjustment to the Consumer Price Index
inflation measure. Some political jurisdictions take it further, San Francisco has a minimum over $10 per hour and the state of ... MORE
Thomas Sowell - Killing The Goose
Incentives for destruction. Killing the goose that lays the golden egg is one of those old fairy
tales for children which has a heavy message that a lot of adults should
listen to. The labor unions which have driven the makers of Twinkies
into bankruptcy, potentially destroying 18,500 jobs, could have learned
a lot from that old children's fairy tale. ... MOREVegas Employer: Obama Won -- So I Fired 22 Employees
Election results begin being felt. A Las Vegas business owner with 114 employees fired 22 workers today, apparently as a direct result of President Obama’s re-election. “David” (he asked to remain anonymous for obvious reasons) told Host Kevin Wall on 100.5 KXNT that “elections have consequences” and that “at the end of the day, I need to survive.” ... MORE
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