Companies converting full time workers to part time suggests they were over staffed to begin with.
With all due respect, Mr Clean? You're doing intellectual contortions to try to explain away the very obvious effects of ObamaCare on unemployment numbers.
Companies are reacting to the looming ObamaCare regulations by turning full time positions into part time positions so that they don't have to absorb the costs of having to pay for full time employee's health care. It has NOTHING to do with staffing levels! To even try and make that claim is ridiculous.
The truth is...if the people who wrote the ACA had thought it through before they rushed it through, they would have recognized the problem this was going to create. It's what happens when people with little to no experience with running a business attempt to pass legislation that will effect businesses.
So in other words, they've had surplus hours all along?
Or are they just converting one 40 hour worker to two 20 hour workers and absorbing the additional administrative and bookkeeping costs.
The additional administration and bookkeeping costs pale in comparison to the cost of having to provide health care insurance for full time workers, Mr Clean.
I can tell that you have no experience with running a business or you wouldn't be making silly points like this. Suffice it to say, REAL business owners are constantly looking at what their costs will be and labor costs are usually their largest cost so they watch that closer than anything else. You seem amazed by that...which tells me you're clueless when it comes to how most businesses function...just like the people who crafted the ACA.