Dunkin' Brands Takes Stand Against Obamacare
The company is lobbying the White House to changes its definition of full-time work from 30 hours a week to 40 or more per week, according to reports.
Dunkin' Brands, parent company of Dunkin' Donuts, has joined the fight against Obamacare. The coffee and baked goods company is working to overturn a major provision of Obamacare, according to a Newsmax.com report this week. There are three Dunkin' Donut locations in Bristol, on Metacom Avenue and Hope Street. Specifically, Dunkin' is lobbying the White House to change its definition of full-time work from at least 30 hours a week to 40 or more per week, CEO Nigel Travis told the Financial Times, according to The Huffington Post. The change would leave Dunkin', as well as other companies, with fewer workers to insure under the health care reform law, which requires large employers to provide health coverage to all full-time workers and …
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Margaret
6:20 pm on Sunday, February 24, 2013
before you assume it would be as easy as upping the price of coffee by a dime....do some actual human research and find out the actual cost-call your local dunkin employees & discover employees paychecks now avg under $200 because their avg hours cut from 35 avg to 25 in order to avoid the 30 hr mandate this is quite more expensive to society than a dime up in coffee Dunkin is a source of … more ›