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Why aren't politicians making easier to hire people part time? It would benefit not only the unemployed but also the employed that wants to trade part of their
by DiThi 10y ago
Why aren't politicians making easier to hire people part time? It would benefit not only the unemployed but also the employed that wants to trade part of their salary with more free time.
- ThrustVectoring 10y agoNot all capabilities are positive-value for the owner - being able to sell your kidneys means that people will have an incentive to extort you into giving up a kidney. Also, letting people make the best decision for them isn't the same thing as the best rule for everyone to follow. Tragedy of the Commons is the best example for this - if everyone makes their best choice for how many fish to catch, the lake gets emptied. I really ought to turn the above two points into a detailed blog post aimed at libertarians. (Libertarians make good points, too - generally they have better policies than the ones they critique. These processes are some of the biggest things that libertarians categorically ignore, though.)
- yummyfajitas 10y agoIn theory this is true. Is there major kidney related extortion in Iran, where kidney sales are legal? What similar extortion do you see in other similar markets? Is there any reason to believe this is not a random, unsubstantiated fear?
- ThrustVectoring 10y ago>What similar extortion do you see in other similar markets? Perhaps a better example is the secret ballot.
- michaelmrose 10y agoWhere it's legal to sell kidneys I imagine people are presured by poverty to make medically unsound choices surely this is bad enough?
- DiThi 10y agoYou may have misunderstood the idea I wanted to explain. Look at my answers in this sub thread.
- mordae 10y agoHow exactly would it benefit the unemployed? They lose all the benefits the moment they start working!
- DiThi 10y agoIt may shock you, but rules and welfare were invented by humans, for specific goals. If the goals are not fulfilled any more, it may be time to change the rules. That phenomenon is called "welfare cliff", and it should be addressed if politicians wants to make part time jobs easier for both employers and employees.
- pkaye 10y agoMost of those in this article are looking for the stability of full time employment. They don't want to juggle a bunch of part time jobs.
- adenomatous 10y agoThere is such a thing as working a single 1/2 or 2/3 job in a permanent position. It's not a bad way to live. More people ought to try.
- DiThi 10y agoI want one stable, non temporary, part time job, even though I would be earning less. Many people want too.
- pkaye 10y agoAre you speaking as someone in the EU because there are plenty of part time jobs in the US but usually they don't come with any benefits.
- DiThi 10y agoYes, I'm from the EU. Does part time jobs in the US disqualifies you from unemployment benefits?
- pkaye 10y agoThe US qualifications may vary slightly form state to state but in California is is based on minimum income on a quarter basis over the past year. This threshold is pretty low but the benefits are minimal also. You can continue to work part time but the earnings are subtracted from the unemployment benefits so rarely a net gain. The real problem with part time jobs is that they usually don't include health insurance benefits. It is cheaper for an employer to give one full time worker health insurance benefits instead of giving two part time workers health insurance benefits. I think if the US had free national health insurance it would really change the landscape of part time jobs as more people would be open to it.
- rkrzr 10y agoIt's not hard to hire people part time. But that is also not the point that this article is making. The problem is that a whole generation of people in Europe is currently facing unemployment/underemployment and temporary job contracts which prevents them from making plans for the future like starting a family etc.
- DiThi 10y ago> It's not hard to hire people part time. It is hard. There are incentives for employers to only hire full time (more people = more administrative work and less favorable numbers when computing taxes, etc). There are incentives for unemployed people to seek full time jobs and not part time jobs: You lose unemployment benefits when you do any type of job. The so called welfare cliff.
- candiodari 10y agoIn at least one western European country part-time has the reputation of being about 2h less work than full-time, but 60% of the pay. Partly because they always demand you come in 4 days out of 5, sometimes all 5, and so traffic time is the same. Knowing that a LOT of people spend 1h+ each way, this means a part-time job effectively shortens your workday (time away from home) from 10h to 8h. So you can extrapolate from that exactly how employers use part-time.
- DiThi 10y agoI'll rephrase: politicians should consider making easier for both employers and employees to just work less hours with exactly the same hourly wage.
- andmarios 10y agoIn Greece, with our austerity measures, part-time employment came as a requisite from our creditors, because it would turn our economy more competitive. What really happened in an economy with 23% unemployment? Now anyone can hire you legally for as little as 100 euro per month and, since there are a million people out there looking for a job, can demand from you to work 12 hours per day for 5 or 6 days a week. Slavery does give a competitive edge to a business.
- DiThi 10y ago> can demand from you to work 12 hours per day for 5 or 6 days a week How is that "part time"?