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BUSINESSES ... GOVERNMENT WILL FIND A WAY TO GET YOUR MONEY
Neal Boortz
March 10, 2010 8:41 AM

One of my theories that I have pitched for a long time is that all of these health care mandates and tax increases would eventually lead to a huge boom in temporary staffing agencies. Well .. here's another little goodie that simply reinforces what I've been saying.

Many businesses have determined that because of government mandates and threats of mandates it simply makes sense to hire more part-time workers and fewer full-timers. This is because it would simply cost less to employ a part-time worker to come in and complete a job or task compared to a full-time worker with all of the government regulated strings attached. So someone in the House has realized that this trend could conceivably become a reality. They are trying to change the House health care bill require businesses to count part-time employees when calculating health care penalties. Here how the AP explains it:

In a new change sought by House Democrats, the fix-it bill would require businesses to count part-time workers when calculating penalties for failing to provide health coverage for employees. Smaller businesses would be exempt. The Senate bill would count only full-time workers in applying the penalties, but under the change, described by a Democratic aide, two part-time workers would count as one full-time worker. Businesses say that's unduly burdensome, but Democrats contend it would prevent businesses from avoiding penalties by hiring more workers part-time.

Sounds like a good time to get into the temporary staffing business to me. As the federal government makes it more and more difficult for employers to hire part-timers, these employers are going to head to the temp agencies. The people work at your place, doing your stuff ... but they're employed by someone else. Now we'll wait for the Democrats to find a way around that too.