A study finds that the A.C.A. is not causing a big shift to part-time workers.
Many who start full time shift to part-time enrollment to manage families and work while still pursuing degrees.
Unfortunately my applications failed, and after less than a year, I chose to shift to part-time status and get a job.
Rather, the CBO was projecting that employees would be encouraged to leave the work force entirely, or shift to part-time work, for two reasons.
Among other things, instead of measuring Social Security benefits against retirees' lifetime earnings, including years of low earnings at the beginning and end of one's career (when the worker may shift to part-time work or stop working at all before filing for Social Security), the new standard measures benefits only against workers' substantial earnings late in life.
At the same time, Barro lauds the way the law will make it "easier for people to retire before age 65, quit a full-time job to start a business, or shift to part-time work and spend more time raising children or attending school".
Workload pressures on primary care a decade ago led to greater use and cost in emergency departments and hospitalizations, declining quality, and a looming workforce crisis with early retirements, shift to part-time work, and difficulty recruiting.
In September he was shifted to part-time, and his pay has shrunk to $600 a month from $2,200.
The baleful impact of shifting to part-time status struck me forcefully when I listened to one interviewee speaking of a male friend's experience.
The car industry has been hit hard by the global slowdown, and many manufacturers have shifted to part-time working and imposed pay cuts on their workers.
