{"id":23111,"date":"2015-02-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/reicherts-vote\/"},"modified":"2015-02-06T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:00:00","slug":"reicherts-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/reicherts-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Reichert\u2019s vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>In last week\u2019s Reporter, Ms. Edenholm wrote, \u201cCongressman Reichert supports me by voting for a 40-hour, full-time work week.\u201d Unfortunately, that was a vote in support of corporations, not in support of working people.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">The current law classifies a 30-hour week as full time with respect to the requirement that businesses provide health insurance to full-time workers. If the 40-hour definition were to be put into effect, many companies would schedule workers for 39 hours, so that they would not have to provide the benefit of health insurance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">With the 30-hour definition, it\u2019s much less likely that companies would schedule employees for fewer hours. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">I have a niece who worked for a chain drugstore for years, and almost every week she was scheduled for 39 hours, so that the company would not have to give her benefits.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">We should always pay attention to the man behind the curtain.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p4\"><strong><em>\u2013\u00a0R. Wesley Aman<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In last week\u2019s Reporter, Ms. Edenholm wrote, \u201cCongressman Reichert supports me by voting for a 40-hour, full-time work week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-23111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23111"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}