Thread: ObamaCare Call Center Hiring Part-Time Employees: Won't Provide Healthcare Benefits

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Michael Miller
On July 27, 2013
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This just in from the Hypocrisy Hall of Fame: Of the 204 people being hired at one of the ObamaCare call center branches, roughly half of them will be part-time employees; with no healthcare benefits. Um, what?

Here’s the deal: Team Obama announced last month that it was setting up an ObamaCare call center to provide information to consumers in preparation for the Oct.1 deadline, when state insurances exchanges were supposed to be operational. (The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, has since announced that the exchanges were “behind schedule” and many, if not most, will not be up and running by Oct. 1.)


Here’s the other deal: At least half of the jobs being offered by at least one branch of the ObamaCare call center will be part-time withno healthcare benefits.

You can’t make this stuff up.

According to the Contra Costa Times, “about half the jobs are part-time, with no health benefits – a stinging disappointment to workers and local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time.”

The county supervisor, Karen Mitchoff, called the hiring process “a comedy of errors” and said she “never dreamed [the jobs] would be part-time.”
“The battle for the call center was over jobs with good working wages and benefits; I never dreamed they would be part-time,” said Mitchoff, who expressed her “extreme displeasure with how it was handled” to call center supervisors.

One recent hire, who last week learned the job would be part-time, said the new “intermittent” employees feel like they’ve been used as a political tool, and many now regret applying for the positions. (For more information on “political tools,” please see: “Low-information Obama Supporters.”)

“What’s really ironic is working for a call center and trying to help people get healthcare, but we can’t afford it ourselves.”

Yeah, well, welcome to the harsh reality of the Community Organizer Two-step. Listen, I feel your pain (kind of), but at the same time, if you haven’t learned by now that Barack Obama has a history of lying saying one thing while doing another, you never will. Still, I hope you get your benefits.

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Obamacare Call Center Will Not Offer Health-Care Benefits to Employees

By Eliana Johnson
July 26, 2013 6:27 PM

In order to ensure Americans understand how to access the benefits available to them when many provisions of the Affordable Care Act go online October 1, the Obama administration announced last month that it is setting up a call center that will be accessible to Americans 24 hours a day.

One branch of that call center will be located in California’s Contra Costa County, where, reportedly, 7,000 people applied for the 204 jobs. According to the Contra Costa Times, however, “about half the jobs are part-time, with no health benefits — a stinging disappointment to workers and local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time.” The county supervisor, Karen Mitchoff, called the hiring process “a comedy of errors” and said she “never dreamed [the jobs] would be part-time.”

The Times indicates that a job posting advertised all of the jobs as full-time, and one call center employee, who said no reason for the apparent change was provided, told the paper, ”It reminded me of that George Clooney movie where he goes around the country firing people [Up in the Air]. The woman said, ‘I know you were led to believe you would be full-time, but things have changed. . . . You are actually ‘part-time intermittent.’”

The Contra Costa employees are currently in training, and the call center — one of three based in California — is set to go live on October 1.

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