Hello everybody!   
      
      
   Its an article from Daily Kos, but it is relevant. I just feel like it might   
   be more ethical just to cook at home and leave entrepenuers who find the   
   loopholes unworthy.   
      
      
   Reposted from Daily Kos Labor by Laura Clawson   
      
   Papa John's has company in the Obamacare fear-mongering game. Darden   
   Restaurants, the parent company of Olive Garden, Red Lobster and others, is   
   joining the pizza chain in threatening dire consequences stemming from the   
   requirement that large companies offer affordable health insurance to   
   employees working 30 or more hours a week. But where Papa John's has   
   threatened to pass the 11 to 14 cent per pizza added cost it claims will come   
   from insuring or refusing to insure their workers along to customers, Darden   
   is sticking it straight to its workers by planning to make sure hourly workers   
   just don't get the 30 hours a week that would tip them over into qualifying   
   for insurance.   
   Here's the thing: Obamacare or no, this is completely typical behavior from   
   Darden. The chain already keeps 75 percent of its hourly workers below 30   
   hours of work a week, and:   
      
   Darden has been aggressively keeping labor costs down. It has cut bartenders'   
   pay and required servers to share tips with them. It also has eliminated   
   busboy positions at Red Lobster and reduced the number of servers working each   
   shift at that chain.   
   Labor costs as a percentage of sales have dropped steadily from 33.1 percent   
   in fiscal 2010 to 30.8 percent in the most recent quarter.   
      
   What we have here is not some Obamacare cataclysm of good employers being   
   forced to cut their employees' hours or go out of business. Rather, it's a   
   food service sweatshop finding one more way to screw its workers. Darden is   
   one of the 20 largest low-wage employers in the country; meanwhile, it was   
   profitable in the last fiscal year and over the last three fiscal years, and   
   has higher revenues, profits, operating margins and cash holdings than prior   
   to the recession. In recent years, Darden has paid nearly $14 million in fines   
   and settlements for wage theft.   
   It's a sad fact that almost any time you're eating in a restaurant, you're in   
   a low-wage, low-benefits workplace. Usually, employers who've taken the high   
   road are the only ones that stand out in the restaurant industry. But Darden   
   has repeatedly distinguished itself by being one of the worst employers in an   
   industry of bad employers. That it would use Obamacare as an excuse to cut the   
   hours of the few remaining full-time hourly workers in an overwhelmingly   
   part-time workforce is hardly a surprise.   
      
   Matt   
      
      
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