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Anyone in Santa Clara (California), I believe there's a ballot proposition this election to try to do something at the local level (basically, requiring additio
by ubernostrum 10y ago
Anyone in Santa Clara (California), I believe there's a ballot proposition this election to try to do something at the local level (basically, requiring additional work hours to be offered to existing employees first -- pushing them over into full-time status -- before hiring more part-time staff to take the hours).
- kylecordes 10y agoThat seems like the sort of rule that a government could apply to itself, but very unlikely to successfully change nongovernment company behavior. If governments (city, state, federal, etc.) really want to see part-time versus full-time employees treated more similarly, the way to do that is to reduce the differences between them. Of course this goes straight to the heart of many of our difficulties around all these things: the legacy-of-WW2-wage-controls connection between full-time employment and expensive (health insurance mostly) benefits. If that ever got fixed it would also fix many other things.