I think Applebee's has announced either mass layoffs or reducing hours. I can't remember which. If I can find the article again, I will post it. Many companies are doing the same.
You seem to forget. Businesses are in business to make money, not provide health insurance. They provide health insurance in an effort to attract and keep better employees. The employees pay for the insurance by the value they provide the company. So, if a company pays an employee $10 p/h, and health care costs for the employee paid for by the company are $5 p/h, the employee needs to return at least $15 p/h in value to the company. If the employee can't do that, s/he will not have a job. When the government arbitrarily increases labor costs, simple economics tells us that the demand for labor will decrease. That's what's happening here. The employees who can't provide the value to the company to justify their job will be laid off. It's as simple as that.
You can't screw with demand and supply and expect things to stay the same. It just won't. That's why Obama is incompetent. He doesn't understand simple economics.
Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Actually, to be correct, the employee has to provide a financial benefit to the owner in excess of any other reasonable investment opportunity available to the owner....profitability is not enough, it needs to be most profitable reasonably available....if you got $100,000 to invest, 5% return is profitable, but 8% is better....if the cost to switch money from one account to the other makes it worth while, you do it.....of course, switching money out of an operating business to another investment is a more involved calculation, but those calculations get made every day.......liberals don't understand this....