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Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
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ex-Lester
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Date: September 12, 2013 09:39AM
Cumberland Gulf Takes New Approach to Obamacare Mandate
By Brian Berk
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- The impending Patient Protection Affordable Care Act has many retailers scrambling. Going into effect on Jan. 1, employers with 50 or more full-time employees must offer affordable health insurance, or suffer a $2,000 fine per employee excluding the first 30 employees.
Although many retailers are considering cutting employee hours in response to the Affordable Care Act employer mandate, The Cumberland Gulf Group, operator of 589 convenience stores, is taking the opposite approach -- one that may send shockwaves throughout the c-store industry. The company announced this morning that it will expand its health care program to cover an additional 1,500 employees approximately as of Oct. 1.
The Affordable Care Act, widely referred to as Obamacare, stipulates that employees working more than 30 hours per week are considered full-time workers. In Cumberland Gulf's case, approximately 4,500 workers will be full-time employees as of Oct. 1, and 2,700 will remain part-time workers. The company decided that all of its full-time employees will work 32 hours per week or more, while part-time employees will work 29 hours per week or less.
Roughly 1,500 employees who currently serve part-time roles will have their hours boosted to meet the 32-hour-per-week threshold and receive health care benefits.
Providing health care benefits to 1,500 additional employees will certainly be costly for Cumberland Gulf, acknowledged John P. McMahon, senior vice president of human resources and chief human resources officer at The Cumberland Gulf Group. However, he said the changes are well worth it for an employer in a leadership position.
"There certainly is a choice to be made in this situation and every company needs to do what they think is right," McMahon told CSNews Online exclusively in an industry-first interview. "We think we are doing the right things for the right reasons. We want the internal and external world to know that our company is a great place to work. Our short- and long-term success will be predicated on the people we hire and who work for us and with us."
The company is instituting this new health care policy because it wants current and prospective employees to know they are partners and part of a family business, McMahon continued. "We've become the premier brand of choice for the daily needs of the everyday, on-the-go world by being a great place to work first," he said. "We want to differentiate ourselves."
Current part-time workers will not be forced to become full-time employees under the Obamacare guidelines, McMahon stressed. "We will work closely with our people to understand their needs, our needs and work out scheduling and availability," he stated.
Framingham, Mass.-based Cumberland Gulf initially sent an e-mail to its employees on Friday notifying them of the new health care policy. Although it is still early, feedback has already begun to pour in.
"The initial reaction has been extremely positive, not only from our internal folks, but from external people who are interested in jobs," McMahon told CSNews Online. "I imagine our candidate flow will continue to increase. People are really happy about the [new health care policy]. It's a tangible example that we are serious [about] our commitment to our people and we really are putting our money where our mouth is."
The Cumberland Gulf Group is a strategic amalgamation of Cumberland Farms Inc. and Gulf Oil LP.
http://www.csnews.com/top-story-business_focus-cumberland_gulf_takes_new_approach_to_obamacare_mandate-63805.html
By Brian Berk
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- The impending Patient Protection Affordable Care Act has many retailers scrambling. Going into effect on Jan. 1, employers with 50 or more full-time employees must offer affordable health insurance, or suffer a $2,000 fine per employee excluding the first 30 employees.
Although many retailers are considering cutting employee hours in response to the Affordable Care Act employer mandate, The Cumberland Gulf Group, operator of 589 convenience stores, is taking the opposite approach -- one that may send shockwaves throughout the c-store industry. The company announced this morning that it will expand its health care program to cover an additional 1,500 employees approximately as of Oct. 1.
The Affordable Care Act, widely referred to as Obamacare, stipulates that employees working more than 30 hours per week are considered full-time workers. In Cumberland Gulf's case, approximately 4,500 workers will be full-time employees as of Oct. 1, and 2,700 will remain part-time workers. The company decided that all of its full-time employees will work 32 hours per week or more, while part-time employees will work 29 hours per week or less.
Roughly 1,500 employees who currently serve part-time roles will have their hours boosted to meet the 32-hour-per-week threshold and receive health care benefits.
Providing health care benefits to 1,500 additional employees will certainly be costly for Cumberland Gulf, acknowledged John P. McMahon, senior vice president of human resources and chief human resources officer at The Cumberland Gulf Group. However, he said the changes are well worth it for an employer in a leadership position.
"There certainly is a choice to be made in this situation and every company needs to do what they think is right," McMahon told CSNews Online exclusively in an industry-first interview. "We think we are doing the right things for the right reasons. We want the internal and external world to know that our company is a great place to work. Our short- and long-term success will be predicated on the people we hire and who work for us and with us."
The company is instituting this new health care policy because it wants current and prospective employees to know they are partners and part of a family business, McMahon continued. "We've become the premier brand of choice for the daily needs of the everyday, on-the-go world by being a great place to work first," he said. "We want to differentiate ourselves."
Current part-time workers will not be forced to become full-time employees under the Obamacare guidelines, McMahon stressed. "We will work closely with our people to understand their needs, our needs and work out scheduling and availability," he stated.
Framingham, Mass.-based Cumberland Gulf initially sent an e-mail to its employees on Friday notifying them of the new health care policy. Although it is still early, feedback has already begun to pour in.
"The initial reaction has been extremely positive, not only from our internal folks, but from external people who are interested in jobs," McMahon told CSNews Online. "I imagine our candidate flow will continue to increase. People are really happy about the [new health care policy]. It's a tangible example that we are serious [about] our commitment to our people and we really are putting our money where our mouth is."
The Cumberland Gulf Group is a strategic amalgamation of Cumberland Farms Inc. and Gulf Oil LP.
http://www.csnews.com/top-story-business_focus-cumberland_gulf_takes_new_approach_to_obamacare_mandate-63805.html
Re: Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
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Tired of Libs
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Date: September 12, 2013 09:46AM
it's mostly a bunch of camel eating dotheads working those jobs, make them pay for their own healthcare or get the fuck out of our country
Re: Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
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liberal logic 27
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Date: September 12, 2013 09:47AM
Gee, I wonder how the conservaturds will try to spin this story into an indictment of Obama?
Re: Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
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liberal logic 27
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Date: September 12, 2013 09:48AM
Tired of Libs Wrote:
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> it's mostly a bunch of camel eating dotheads
> working those jobs, make them pay for their own
> healthcare or get the fuck out of our country
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> it's mostly a bunch of camel eating dotheads
> working those jobs, make them pay for their own
> healthcare or get the fuck out of our country
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Re: Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
Posted by:
Liberal Retard
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Date: September 12, 2013 09:56AM
"We think we are doing the right things for the right reasons."
Yeah, check back in two years when health care costs are eating them alive and they're moving more workers to part time status.
Yeah, check back in two years when health care costs are eating them alive and they're moving more workers to part time status.
Re: Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
Posted by:
liberal logic 27
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Date: September 12, 2013 10:34AM
Liberal Retard Wrote:
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> Yeah, check back in two years when health care
> costs are eating them alive and they're moving
> more workers to part time status.
Conservaturds! Rooting against America.
LoLz!
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> Yeah, check back in two years when health care
> costs are eating them alive and they're moving
> more workers to part time status.
Conservaturds! Rooting against America.
LoLz!
Re: Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
Posted by:
ex-Lester
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Date: September 12, 2013 10:42AM
They need fewer employees now with the hours being bumped.
Re: Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
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safety must come first
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Date: September 12, 2013 11:01AM
ex-Lester Wrote:
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> They need fewer employees now with the hours being
> bumped.
um sorry but these are the same stores with 20 maybe 30 beaners hanging around outside, drinking beer, harassing folks and littering everywhere. send them home and start arresting all the tax dodgers who hire them instead of wasting it on free healthcare for employees
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> They need fewer employees now with the hours being
> bumped.
um sorry but these are the same stores with 20 maybe 30 beaners hanging around outside, drinking beer, harassing folks and littering everywhere. send them home and start arresting all the tax dodgers who hire them instead of wasting it on free healthcare for employees
Re: Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
Posted by:
liberal logic 27
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Date: September 12, 2013 11:18AM
safety must come first Wrote:
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> um sorry but these are the same stores with 20
> maybe 30 beaners hanging around outside, drinking
> beer, harassing folks and littering everywhere.
> send them home and start arresting all the tax
> dodgers who hire them instead of wasting it on
> free healthcare for employees
Liar! Loitering is forbidden outside Cumberland Farms stores.
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> um sorry but these are the same stores with 20
> maybe 30 beaners hanging around outside, drinking
> beer, harassing folks and littering everywhere.
> send them home and start arresting all the tax
> dodgers who hire them instead of wasting it on
> free healthcare for employees
Liar! Loitering is forbidden outside Cumberland Farms stores.
Re: Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
Posted by:
Liberal Retard
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Date: September 12, 2013 02:47PM
liberal logic 27 Wrote:
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> Liberal Retard Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Yeah, check back in two years when health care
> > costs are eating them alive and they're moving
> > more workers to part time status.
>
> Conservaturds! Rooting against America.
>
> LoLz!
Keep living in your fantasy land where everything's free.
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> Liberal Retard Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Yeah, check back in two years when health care
> > costs are eating them alive and they're moving
> > more workers to part time status.
>
> Conservaturds! Rooting against America.
>
> LoLz!
Keep living in your fantasy land where everything's free.
Re: Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
Posted by:
liberal logic 27
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Date: September 12, 2013 03:01PM
Liberal Retard Wrote:
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> Keep living in your fantasy land where
> everything's free.
Yeah, okay.
And you keep living in your fantasy land where all bad things happen because of the government and all good things happen despite the government.
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> Keep living in your fantasy land where
> everything's free.
Yeah, okay.
And you keep living in your fantasy land where all bad things happen because of the government and all good things happen despite the government.
Re: Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
Posted by:
the followers
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Date: September 12, 2013 05:00PM
'liberal logic 27 would have made a perfect Nazi. How gullible he is. How easily led down the garden path.
A dictator's wet dream come true.
He's such a dupe, so dependent, a good little soldier, obeying and cheering on the big-Daddy government that will take care of him like the child he is. A weak, mealymouthed loser who can barely tie his own shoes without help from a retard working for some bloated government agency.
A dictator's wet dream come true.
He's such a dupe, so dependent, a good little soldier, obeying and cheering on the big-Daddy government that will take care of him like the child he is. A weak, mealymouthed loser who can barely tie his own shoes without help from a retard working for some bloated government agency.
Re: Convenience store chain boosts employees' hours to get health insurance
Posted by:
Who Follows Whom?
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Date: September 12, 2013 08:49PM
the followers Wrote:
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> 'liberal logic 27 would have made a perfect Nazi.
> How gullible he is. How easily led down the garden
> path.
>
> A dictator's wet dream come true.
>
> He's such a dupe, so dependent, a good little
> soldier, obeying and cheering on the big-Daddy
> government that will take care of him like the
> child he is. A weak, mealymouthed loser who can
> barely tie his own shoes without help from a
> retard working for some bloated government agency.
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> 'liberal logic 27 would have made a perfect Nazi.
> How gullible he is. How easily led down the garden
> path.
>
> A dictator's wet dream come true.
>
> He's such a dupe, so dependent, a good little
> soldier, obeying and cheering on the big-Daddy
> government that will take care of him like the
> child he is. A weak, mealymouthed loser who can
> barely tie his own shoes without help from a
> retard working for some bloated government agency.
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