Olive Garden, Red Lobster to Cut Hours Instead of Giving Health Insurance

[JayHawk]

I think it's safe to assume that at least around a quarter of their work staff now is full time, or around 45,000 employees. I'm not sure that the health care plan won't have a significant impact on their profit, even if the company is doing well. I guess I would want to look at real numbers first, before deciding one way or the other.

Just look at it this way... if their 45000 full time employees all get reduced to part time then they will need 60000 employees to cover the same workload... just think if every company in america hired 25% more people.............current full time employed are 138 million.... that means this alone could create 34.5 million jobs.....

 

[zoltanspawn]

Just look at it this way... if their 45000 full time employees all get reduced to part time then they will need 60000 employees to cover the same workload... just think if every company in america hired 25% more people.............current full time employed are 138 million.... that means this alone could create 34.5 million jobs.....

EVERYBODY wins!

 

[Hellax24]

I used to be a server at several restaurants and they pay servers a little over 3 bucks an hour. Their money comes from tips. If a server works over 30 hr's a week managers will change their hours so they do not get paid more. They think of it as you working more hours and making more money. The 3 bucks get's absorbed by the tips. IF a server is honest and reports all their tips. Many don't. Some servers collect a check AND their tips. A good server at any of those places can make 1,000-1,500 a week easy.

Those people talking about cutting back hours are going to make the workplace not worth going to and the service will decline as workers who are willing to work many hours and finesse a table when the kitchen get's backed up or the food comes out wrong will lose people, good people. They will have to comp meals and offer discount cards. It isn't easy training a new staff and having that staff memorize a menu so they can answer any question a guest will have. They are cutting their noses to spite their faces. They need to step back and give a shit about their employees, because if they don't their employees won't give a shit about them. Trust, I have worked at restaurants when it has all gone to hell.


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[zoltanspawn]

I'm not so sure those with jobs would really like that.

I was joking.

 

[JayHawk]

I'm not so sure those with jobs would really like that.

Overnight we are Europe... we can expand vacation time out to eight weeks later this year.

The Kapauku people of Papua think it is bad luck to work two consecutive days.

I can not say I disagree...

Time to live a quality of life instead of for a quantity of cash.....

 

[zoltanspawn]

I can not say I disagree...

Time to live a quality of life instead of for a quantity of cash.....

If you were very successful you would probably find a reason to explain your new pleasures and your lustrous prestige.

We're chemically coded to live for a quantity of cash.

It takes something like a strong notion of "bad luck" before we live for quality of life.

 

[JayHawk]

We are not chemically coded to live for cash... how fucking ludicrous....

I have had tons of that stuff and let me tell you we dont live for it... some folks may but most people are happy just living life and having a good time doing it....

 

[zoltanspawn]

some folks may

How many, do you think?

 

[seven2go]

It also means servers at Red Lobster now manage four tables at a time instead of three, in case you're wondering why your endless popcorn shrimp refills were taking so long.

Any server who can't handle four tables should find another line of work.
A four table station oughta provide servers with more income anyway.

 

[bankside]

The other option of course would be a law that erases the distinction between full and part time employees by prorating all the benefits. Suddenly a lot of part time nonsense would turn into full time positions.

 

[rocabar]

It has nothing to do with medicare. We all have that.

I don't know the exact reason but someone here does. Maybe it helps save paying Canadian Pension Plan(CPP) or Unemployment premiums.

I'll check on it.

Benefits here in Canada, have more to do with extended health care coverage, extended disability/life insurance, and the like.

on my plan . . .

90% of my prescriptions are covered (no limit)

100% preventative/minor dental work covered (max 2.5k per year-no deductible)
50% major restorative dental
50% orthodontic covered ( max 3k per year-$50.00 deductible)

Eyecare ($350.00 every two years- no deductible)

Acupuncture/Chiropractic/Physiotherapy treatments (up to 1.2k per year - no referral)
Massage treatments ($400 per year - no referral)

Ambulance/private Hospital rooms are covered.

My plan also has comprehensive disability and life insurance provisions - that hopefully I will never have to use.

Most of these plans are co-pay, but some employers will pick up the whole tab.

Some employers will also include a retirement savings plan as well.

. . . And that's how it's done in Canada!

 

[mikey3000]

Benefits here in Canada, have more to do with extended health care coverage, extended disability/life insurance, and the like.

on my plan . . .

90% of my prescriptions are covered (no limit)

100% preventative/minor dental work covered (max 2.5k per year-no deductible)
50% major restorative dental
50% orthodontic covered ( max 3k per year-$50.00 deductible)

Eyecare ($350.00 every two years- no deductible)

Acupuncture/Chiropractic/Physiotherapy treatments (up to 1.2k per year - no referral)
Massage treatments ($400 per year - no referral)

Ambulance/private Hospital rooms are covered.

My plan also has comprehensive disability and life insurance provisions - that hopefully I will never have to use.

Most of these plans are co-pay, but some employers will pick up the whole tab.

Some employers will also include a retirement savings plan as well.

. . . And that's how it's done in Canada!

Wow! You're either Stephen Harper or a brand new refuge.

Rest assured that most Canadians don't have extended coverage that good. You are very fortunate.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Benefits here in Canada, have more to do with extended health care coverage, extended disability/life insurance, and the like.

on my plan . . .

90% of my prescriptions are covered (no limit)

100% preventative/minor dental work covered (max 2.5k per year-no deductible)
50% major restorative dental
50% orthodontic covered ( max 3k per year-$50.00 deductible)

Eyecare ($350.00 every two years- no deductible)

Acupuncture/Chiropractic/Physiotherapy treatments (up to 1.2k per year - no referral)
Massage treatments ($400 per year - no referral)

Ambulance/private Hospital rooms are covered.

My plan also has comprehensive disability and life insurance provisions - that hopefully I will never have to use.

Most of these plans are co-pay, but some employers will pick up the whole tab.

Some employers will also include a retirement savings plan as well.

. . . And that's how it's done in Canada!

you're fortunate to have an employer who does this but for the majority of Canadians everything you described is not accessible. and if you are unfortunate to work for the company's that keep people under 30 hours and pay only minimum wage you go without a lot of the things you described(or most of them).

you should not assume that because you have it everyone does.

 

[rareboy]

Just look at it this way... if their 45000 full time employees all get reduced to part time then they will need 60000 employees to cover the same workload... just think if every company in america hired 25% more people.............current full time employed are 138 million.... that means this alone could create 34.5 million jobs.....

This is one way of looking at it.

The reality is though that there is also a cost to having another 10,000 employees on the roll too. I think that a lot of companies would suggest that the costs of one appraoch have to be carefully weighed against the other.

Business and consumers really need to press for a single payer insurance program.

I also want to point out another thing.

I don't see the big corporations going out and hiring a whole lot of part time executives so that they don't have to cover their gold plated benefits. These costs always seem to be very easily absorbed into the bottom line.

 

[Corny]

I loved the whole Papa John story .. where he said that he has to raise prices because of Obama and then people uncovered his gargantuan house and car park, how he gave 2 million pizzas away for free and in the end, how insiders revealed that the raise was planned before the election already.

 

[loveguys72]

This thread has earned the coveted Capt. Louis Renault Award!

 

[JustMe5]

Companies aren't simply cutting hours. Layoffs are being announced like haywire now as a result of the Obamacare law.

 

[cityboy-stl]

I've always said, corporations are willing to cut their own throat because at the moment, the blood feels warm. This is no different.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Companies aren't simply cutting hours. Layoffs are being announced like haywire now as a result of the Obamacare law.

really and you have proof of that?

show us.

 

[JustMe5]

really and you have proof of that?

show us.

This is just one link. http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/nov/8/picket-companies-plan-massive-layoffs-obamacare-be/
There are others if you wanna look it up.