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WITH LIBERTY AND
LEISURE FOR ALL
Time: The Forgotten American
Dream, said he’s not a Republican
but he liked the proposal a lot.
“The argument for it is this
would be a way to reward people
with time rather than money,”
Hunnicutt said. “There is this
pent-up consumer demand for leisure that’s out there. I was for it. I
thought it was a great bill.”
Of course, Republicans are not
interested in deliberately shortening the workweek. The Affordable
Care Act, they say, is forcing some
employers to cut hours in order to
escape the law’s insurance mandate for full-time employees.
“The Working Families Flexibil-
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ity Act was designed to give moms
and dads more choices as to how
they balance their jobs and family
time, and make it possible to better schedule doctor’s appointments
and school events,” said Rory Cooper, a spokesman for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
“The biggest threat to the 40-hour
workweek in America today is
Obamacare, which is quickly transforming our full-time workforce
into a part-time workforce given
the extra costs now associated with
giving hardworking employees more
hours, and that is shameful.”
But Obamacare may also give
some new freedom to the overemployed. The Congressional Budget
Office reported in 2011 that the
Affordable Care Act would reduce
In 2009,
casino mogul
Steve Wynn
cut workers’
hours and pay
rather than
fire people.