Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find?
by epistasis on Sunday June 06, 2021 @11:53PM
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This isn't really the same thing that Walmart is doing at all, they are scheduling people so they never get more than 32 hours a week, not scheduling them based on need for 1.5 hours/week.
There's room for a class of contractors that do small number of hours for many different employers, either many within a quarter or many throughout the year.
One practical alternative would be universal health care.
Within our current system of insanely bad group negotiation for rates, establishing a house cleaning union that could negotiate as a class would probably be the second best alternative.
The third alternative is the Obamacare one, which is to pay your employees at a rate high enough so they can buy their own subsidized insurance on the health exchanges.
There's room for a class of contractors that do small number of hours for many different employers, either many within a quarter or many throughout the year.
One practical alternative would be universal health care.
Within our current system of insanely bad group negotiation for rates, establishing a house cleaning union that could negotiate as a class would probably be the second best alternative.
The third alternative is the Obamacare one, which is to pay your employees at a rate high enough so they can buy their own subsidized insurance on the health exchanges.