Comments on: What to Do If Your Employer Cuts Your Hours http://www.moneyunder30.com/what-to-do-employer-cuts-hours Personal Finance for the Young and Ambitious Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:23:03 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Cobra Help Center http://www.moneyunder30.com/what-to-do-employer-cuts-hours/comment-page-1#comment-2410 Cobra Help Center Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:37:38 +0000 http://www.moneyunder30.com/?p=1688#comment-2410 Another side effect of a major cut in hours could be loss of benefits. If some employees are cut from full time hours to part time, they may lose benefits such as health insurance. If this does happen, your employer is REQUIRED to give you COBRA though many employees do not even realize their entitled. As you may know, the law, such as COBRA, is only enforced if you know to fight for it. If you as an employee do not know that you are entitled to COBRA and you have a bad or ill-informed employer, you may be wrongfully denied. Another side effect of a major cut in hours could be loss of benefits. If some employees are cut from full time hours to part time, they may lose benefits such as health insurance. If this does happen, your employer is REQUIRED to give you COBRA though many employees do not even realize their entitled. As you may know, the law, such as COBRA, is only enforced if you know to fight for it. If you as an employee do not know that you are entitled to COBRA and you have a bad or ill-informed employer, you may be wrongfully denied.

]]> By: Jason Unger http://www.moneyunder30.com/what-to-do-employer-cuts-hours/comment-page-1#comment-2411 Jason Unger Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:29:42 +0000 http://www.moneyunder30.com/?p=1688#comment-2411 I had my hours cut at the end of December -- 10% to 36 hours a week. It saved a number of jobs, but brought up a different issue: it turned salaried employees into hourly employees. It doesn't really have an effect on output, but on mentality, as in: "If they're only paying us for 36 hours, then that's all I'm going to work for." It's a weird side effect I don't think management was expecting. I had my hours cut at the end of December — 10% to 36 hours a week. It saved a number of jobs, but brought up a different issue: it turned salaried employees into hourly employees.

It doesn’t really have an effect on output, but on mentality, as in: “If they’re only paying us for 36 hours, then that’s all I’m going to work for.” It’s a weird side effect I don’t think management was expecting.

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