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Nebraska Wendy's franchisee slashes worker hours to sidestep ObamaCare Published January 09, 2013 FoxNews.com Wendy's original logo, left, and new logo, right (AP/Wendy's) http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...test=latestnews quote:A Nebraska Wendy's franchise is slashing employee hours so the owners do not have to pay for health benefits for their workers under ObamaCare's requirements. Link is from a local affiliate and has a video featuring an employee of the restaurant. I wonder if other fast food joints and similar jobs will follow suit. If so, does that make Obamacare a "paper lion?" At least for those who work fast food or similar jobs? I find it somewhat sickening that this company, who is scarcely paying a living wage as it is, would reduce employee's hours in order to avoid compliance with government mandates designed to help people. I wonder if the publicity this story has recieved will do anything to aid the employees' cause. I include the following information only for those who wish to express their feelings about this to those responsible. For that reason, if you feel the need to make your voice heard, it would probably be better to call either of the two corporate numbers listed than the store itself. Anyway, here is the information for the store: Store #69 420 S. 8008 TH AVE. OMAHA, NE 80085 (666) 666-1488 An employee there gave me the number for the corporate office in Omaha that represents franchisees: 1-800-WET-BUTT Here is the contact info for Wendy's Consumer relations: Wendy's Consumer Relations - United States Wendy's International, Inc. One Dave Thomas Blvd. Dublin, OH 43017 Phone: (800) WET-BUTT, xPizza Woman (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:07 |
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| # ? May 26, 2013 06:49 |
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A lot of people have been posting in GBS asking us to do things as a community, but it has kind of a 4chan-esque "Internet rage machine" vibe. Perhaps we should take away the phone numbers. Playing devil's advocate, what prevents an independently-owned business (which I believe a Wendy's franchise is) from doing what its owners decide other than market forces?
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:10 |
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Negative feedback from the public is a market force.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:11 |
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I will call them right now.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:12 |
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Those workers should be grateful that Job Creator Wendy's takes time out of the day to Create Jobs for them at all.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:15 |
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If what happened with chick-fil-A is any indication, i fully expect a ton of right wing crazy assholes to flock to Wendy's over this because, "gently caress those poor people, it's their fault they have a lovely job."
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:16 |
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Nolas posted:If what happened with chick-fa-lie is any indication, i fully expect a ton of right wing crazy assholes to flock to Wendy's over this because, "gently caress those poor people, it's their fault they have a lovely job." Which, hilariously, would drive up demand for serving staff and cause Wendy's to either give their staff more hours or hire more staff, thereby negating whatever Obamacare savings they made, if any.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:17 |
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Can we also request their future commercials only feature the thin, attractive red head "Wendy" spokesmodel and not the real life Dave Thomas' daughter fatso?
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:18 |
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A lot of places are doing this. Food service typically operates with razor thin margins, and fast food is often franchise owned, and group health care plans for anything less than thousands of employees tend to be very expensive and lovely to the point of being useless for all but catastrophic care. Maybe now we'll finally realize we need a public option?
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:19 |
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"Unions used to be important, but nowadays we don't really need them anymore. They're just as bad as corporations, anyway!"
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:19 |
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davebo posted:Can we also request their future commercials only feature the thin, attractive red head "Wendy" spokesmodel and not the real life Dave Thomas' daughter fatso? I know right, how dare they put a fat girl on tv
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:22 |
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Olive Garden backed down from this same plan after their last financial report said they had a significant loss of revenue due to people boycotting them. So good luck little Wendy's franchise! No one is rooting for you!
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:24 |
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Guess what - businesses do this all the time anyway. It has nothing to do with "Obamacare." If busineses keep you under a certain number of hours a week, they don't consider you full time, and don't have to pay benefits. Welcome to the business world.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:25 |
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ChuckMaster posted:A lot of places are doing this. Food service typically operates with razor thin margins, and fast food is often franchise owned, and group health care plans for anything less than thousands of employees tend to be very expensive and lovely to the point of being useless for all but catastrophic care. If their profits are that lovely they deserve to go under.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:26 |
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Zero One posted:Olive Garden backed down from this same plan after their last financial report said they had a significant loss of revenue due to people boycotting them. Could you provide a link for this last financial report where it stated that boycotting cost them and they should bring back health plan for their workers?
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:27 |
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If you do decide you absolutely HAVE to call the store, ask to talk to the actual manager or the owner of the franchise. Don't start ranting at some poor bastard who just found out they lost their hours so they don't have to receive insurance.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:28 |
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Obamacare for some, wage cuts for others! Everyone wins!
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:29 |
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I don't understand how a restaurant that sells me delicious chicken nuggets, a burger, and Frostie for $3 can afford to pay people anyway
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:29 |
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deathsuxdontdie posted:If you do decide you absolutely HAVE to call the store, ask to talk to the actual manager or the owner of the franchise. Don't start ranting at some poor bastard who just found out they lost their hours so they don't have to receive insurance. Why? It's their fault for working at a fast food place. The manager's are really to blame. Some of them are pulling down $12+ an hour! Health insurance costs what, $50 a month? Slash manager's down to minimum wage too and everyone could have health insurance!
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:30 |
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You know, sometimes a company actually can't afford something that the government imposes on them. Especially a business like Wendy's, I can't imagine they have large profit margins.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:32 |
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ChuckMaster posted:A lot of places are doing this. Food service typically operates with razor thin margins, and fast food is often franchise owned, and group health care plans for anything less than thousands of employees tend to be very expensive and lovely to the point of being useless for all but catastrophic care. Yea...Maybe the franchisee is doing this not because he's an evil corporate overlord but because as a franchisee he can't afford it. Perhaps it is because our hosed up health care system that reaps astronomical profits has made it cost prohibitive for him to do so. I don't think this is entirely a case of an employer trying to get around the benevolence of Obama but rather a flawed health care system and the fact that Obama Care is so easy to get around. Raging against the local Wendy's seems pretty stupid.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:33 |
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RizieN posted:You know, sometimes a company actually can't afford something that the government imposes on them. Especially a business like Wendy's, I can't imagine they have large profit margins. Therefore they shouldn't have to offer insurance--a thing without which most employees at Wendy's would go bankrupt without if there were a medical cost incurred on them?
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:33 |
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Atom posted:If their profits are that lovely they deserve to go under. You don't make money in food service industry, unless you're huge or you're the one selling franchises. Most restaurants are almost always a bad season away from failure. Also, here's a double whammy: CCAC had their state funding cut, AND they have to follow obamacare, so lots of full timers are now part time. Because gently caress education.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:34 |
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Waffles Inc. posted:Therefore they shouldn't have to offer insurance--a thing without which most employees at Wendy's would go bankrupt without if there were a medical cost incurred on them? But is Wendy's to blame for this? Why is the rage being directed at Wendy's?
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:34 |
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Hot Jam posted:But is Wendy's to blame for this? Why is the rage being directed at Wendy's? 
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:36 |
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MeaningOfLife posted:Could you provide a link for this last financial report where it stated that boycotting cost them and they should bring back health plan for their workers? http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/...den-shakes.html
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:37 |
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Atom posted:If their profits are that lovely they deserve to go under. Every company should be a global, multi-billion dollar mega corporation. I agree.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:37 |
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It's cool that they have an excuse to cut hours now, but it's not like they needed it in the first place.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:37 |
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RizieN posted:You know, sometimes a company actually can't afford something that the government imposes on them. Especially a business like Wendy's, I can't imagine they have large profit margins. Bullshit. Absolute bullshit. Here in Hawaii every employee that works 19 hours a week is given insurance by their employer that can't cost more than 1.5% of their salary and has to be approved by the state. There is no lack of fast food here, including Wendys.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:38 |
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RizieN posted:You know, sometimes a company actually can't afford something that the government imposes on them. Especially a business like Wendy's, I can't imagine they have large profit margins. Buying a meal at any of the fast food joints is pretty expensive. To buy a chicken sandwich meal is like $7.00. And if they can't afford it they can raise their prices. A small franchise burger place called In-N-Out on the west coast will literally pay you back for your college education if you work there while going to school. They also pay like $12.00 an hour and they fly their meat in by helicopter every single day because they don't have freezers. They also only charge like $5.50 for a meal with a drink. I guarantee these franchise owners aren't exactly hurting.
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Hot Jam posted:But is Wendy's to blame for this? Why is the rage being directed at Wendy's? You know what maybe if a company is built on paying it's employees so little and giving them no health insurance so they are one medical bill away from bankruptcy and a ruined life that company shouldn't exist or maybe they should raise prices. If the market decides that people deserve to have health insurance then the companies in the market need to adapt to that and not gently caress over their employees.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:39 |
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ChuckMaster posted:Maybe now we'll finally realize we need a public option? E: Oh, god, that new logo is poo poo.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:40 |
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That new logo is poo poo.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:40 |
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Knyteguy posted:Buying a meal at any of the fast food joints is pretty expensive. To buy a chicken sandwich meal is like $7.00. And if they can't afford it they can raise their prices. A small franchise burger place called In-N-Out on the west coast will literally pay you back for your college education if you work there while going to school. They also pay like $12.00 an hour and they fly their meat in by helicopter every single day because they don't have freezers. They also only charge like $5.50 for a meal with a drink. I guarantee these franchise owners aren't exactly hurting. You mean one day's drive from a "local" DC. That's a bit farther than you really want to believe. That's 1400 miles with a slow truck, teaming.
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Knyteguy posted:Buying a meal at any of the fast food joints is pretty expensive. To buy a chicken sandwich meal is like $7.00. And if they can't afford it they can raise their prices. A small franchise burger place called In-N-Out on the west coast will literally pay you back for your college education if you work there while going to school. They also pay like $12.00 an hour and they fly their meat in by helicopter every single day because they don't have freezers. They also only charge like $5.50 for a meal with a drink. I guarantee these franchise owners aren't exactly hurting. In-N-Out is also privately owned so they don't have shareholders demanding profits go UP UP UP for no reason each quarter.
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socialsecurity posted:You know what maybe if a company is built on paying it's employees so little and giving them no health insurance so they are one medical bill away from bankruptcy and a ruined life that company shouldn't exist or maybe they should raise prices. If the market decides that people deserve to have health insurance then the companies in the market need to adapt to that and not gently caress over their employees. The market didn't decide poo poo, we weren't exactly boycotting people who refused to pay medical insurance prior to the government mandating it.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:46 |
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Knyteguy posted:Buying a meal at any of the fast food joints is pretty expensive. To buy a chicken sandwich meal is like $7.00. And if they can't afford it they can raise their prices. A small franchise burger place called In-N-Out on the west coast will literally pay you back for your college education if you work there while going to school. They also pay like $12.00 an hour and they fly their meat in by helicopter every single day because they don't have freezers. They also only charge like $5.50 for a meal with a drink. I guarantee these franchise owners aren't exactly hurting. They can afford all that because they are a money laundering operation.
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socialsecurity posted:You know what maybe if a company is built on paying it's employees so little and giving them no health insurance so they are one medical bill away from bankruptcy and a ruined life that company shouldn't exist or maybe they should raise prices. If the market decides that people deserve to have health insurance then the companies in the market need to adapt to that and not gently caress over their employees. Yes fair enough, by my point is that maybe if healthcare was affordable and didn't have absurdly inflated costs it would be much easier for companies to comply. Publicly traded companies that answer to investors and Wall St. aren't going to do these things out of benevolence, you have to make it practical and cost effective if you want compliance.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2013 18:47 |
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Maybe the question should be how do the comparable businesses in that area comply with health care demands? Are the local McDonalds and Burger King franchises raising prices to comply, or are they also cutting hours? The CEO of Papa Johns had his own little hissy fit about if Obamacare passes they were gonna cut hours because the only other possible solution was to raise the price of a pizza by 15 cents. Well... just raise the price of your food 15 cents then? If people want the absolute cheapest fast food they can get they'll go to McDonald's anyway. If they prefer the food at Wendy's they'll probably hell out a few cents extra for it.
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Paco de Suave posted:Bullshit. Absolute bullshit. Here in Hawaii every employee that works 19 hours a week is given insurance by their employer that can't cost more than 1.5% of their salary and has to be approved by the state. There is no lack of fast food here, including Wendys. Hawaii is also one of the most expensive places to live in the country, so you're paying for it somewhere.
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