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>Now if people are worried about employment practices, why not look at Walmart, Amazon, Target, and most retail stores. They intentionally staff people with erratic weekly hours, keeping shifts to 4 hours (no breaks or lunches required) and no one reaches 35 hours to enforce benefits.

Is there Target in the Netherlands?

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No. We respect our workers too much.

> They intentionally staff people with erratic weekly hours, keeping shifts to 4 hours

I literally have family members who work full shifts. You're taking anecdotal examples and extrapolating that to the entire retail force. dumb opinion.

My ex-wife has worked in retail at all levels for 40 years. District managers intentionally force schedules to be broken up so breaks and lunches, outside of managers, are never needed. They intentionally over-hire to make sure they pay the absolute least amount. The average weekly schedule is 30-31 hours and those are broken up into 4 to 6 hour chunks. You may get a break if you're lucky. You may get a lunch if you're on for 8 hours. But the clear direction of the industry is to limit each worker to the least amount of hours, eliminate non-working time, and make sure benefits and overtime are never paid.

You can thank the ACA for that.

The ACA has absolutely nothing to do with employer based healthcare.

The cost of healthcare is the direct result of the creation of the HMO laws during Reagan's presidency, allowing hospitals and doctors to make pre-arranged profit oriented agreements that increased insurance costs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/upshot/reagan-deregulatio...

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