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They are removing expensive full time employees for whom they pay benefits for. The article said they had planned on doing this anyways, they just did it after
by Noos 9y ago
They are removing expensive full time employees for whom they pay benefits for. The article said they had planned on doing this anyways, they just did it after a bad season.
As for not adequately staffing it, you simply can't. You cannot get a decent workforce via part time seasonal work. the way it worked before was part timers just took extra hours in peak periods, but Obamacare killed this by forcing any part timer over so many hours to be eligible for benefits, making it impossible to do.
- fatbird 9y ago> you simply can't And yet, virtually every retailer for the last 3+ decades has, in fact, done so as a matter of normal operations. It has nothing to do with Obamacare. The employment norm was not to only schedule full-time hours for part-time employees (which, even before Obamacare, violated a lot of employment law). Aside from laying off full-time employees after the cycle (which they justified by the crap sales during Christmas), B&N refused to staff-up as normal for virtually every other retailer in North America, to accommodate the most predictable sales cycle in the world... basically in order to justify the firing the full-timers. This was a hit job by insiders looking to profit off the corpse.