K-Mart Of Salisbury Notifies Its Employees That It Is Going To Start Trimming Hours To 30 Per Week

This morning Kmart of Salisbury informed its employee staff that it was going to start trimming its weekly employees hours from 40 hours per week to 30 hours per week.  Could it be that this is the first local big box retailer's response - to initiate personnel changes in preparation for ObamaCare?

Just this week, the White House delayed the Health Insurance mandate until 2016 for medium-size businesses (50 - 99 workers).  Companies with 100 workers or more are getting a different kind of one-year grace period.  Instead of being required in 2015 to offer coverage to 95 percent of full-time workers, these bigger employers can avoid a fine by offering insurance to 70 percent of them next year.

Originally, the employer mandate - which affects companies employing 72 percent of all Americans - was to have gone into effect on January 1, 2014, at the same time the law began requiring most Americans to have health insurance.

As word of the delays spreads, many across the ideological spectrum viewed the delays as an effort by the White House to defuse another health-care controversy before the fall midterm elections.   

Locally - the spill over from Obamacare could also result in diminished State & Local income tax revenues as a result of diminished earnings.  Either way - it will undoubtedly cast a dark shadow for Democrats who are now seeking to shelter themselves from the political fallout caused by the detrimental economic effects.