maybe your question and premise is hearsay...I Googled "CEO's threatening to fire people" and note that Thinkprogress, MSNBC and The HuffPO and the like characterize what some of these guys said as threats and threats to fire people but I don't see any of them actually threatening to fire anyone, they do talk extensively about the inability to grow and probably even downsize under the onerous regulatory climate and the prospect of 4 more years of increasing regulation, taxing and tinkering by this administration ...as was pointed out, many companies are moving employees to part time status due to Obamacare realities on the horizon....
Obamacare and the Labor Supply
and it's not just private business........
State grapples with insurance rules for part-time workers
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State grapples with insurance rules for part-time workers
BY MICHAEL MARTZ AND OLYMPIA MEOLA Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond Times-Dispatch
Virginia is struggling to redefine what “part time” means for public employees and their right to health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
The General Assembly has now affirmed Gov. Bob McDonnell’s decision to order state agencies to cut back part-time employee hours to no more than 29 a week to avoid triggering a requirement under the federal law to provide health insurance.
Under the federal health care law, employees who work 30 hours a week or more on average are considered to be full-time employees and are eligible for health insurance coverage.
But the state remains unsure of how the law’s requirement affects some employees, such as adjunct professors at community colleges, or how to make up the reduced hours without affecting services.
“We’re trying to get a really good grasp of who we have, what are the jobs they’re doing, if they’re working more than 30 hours, is it necessary, why?” Secretary of Administration Lisa Hicks-Thomas, said in an interview Friday.
Local governments face the same questions and challenges for their employees and workers in state-supported local positions, such as community services boards for people with behavioral health conditions.
“We are trying to come up with alternative plans in each situation and try to find a way to get the hours under the threshold or otherwise find ways to cover the work,” said Chesterfield County Administrator James J.L. Stegmaier.
Stegmaier said the county has worked part-time employees up to 32 hours a week, but is cutting them back to less than 30 hours a week, while trying to identify the potential effect on public services they deliver.
“We have put everybody on notice that it is an issue,” he said.