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First Wendy's, now Taco Bell

Posted: Jan 10, 2013

Taco Bell Slashes Hours For Workers To Avoid Obamacare Mandate http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/01/10/taco_bell_slashes_hours_for_workers_to_avoid_obamacare_mandate.html http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/01/poor-taco-bell-workers-see-hours-slashed-thanks-to-obamacare/;

These are all pretty gross places to eat. - RC

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I wonder why that is.

That's not the point. - .

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Well my point is - RC

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They are not exactly brimming with integrity in their food, or the way they treat their employees.

Pretty serious accusations - can you back them up?

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I wonder.

I've worked in fast food. - RC

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Do you think they're all rolling in the dough and enjoying awesome benefits? Try it sometime.

There's a reason the employees spit in the food.

If you say you worked at Taco Bell - sm

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I'll take your word for it. ;)

Plus, anyone who googles fast food employee abuse - etc., will have too much to be able to read. nm

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You're right! Pink slime and fillers are delicious! - Al Fabbet

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And full of integrity too! Plus we all should show repect for Taco Bell for introducing Americans to the concept of "fourth meal." What's more American than promoting super morbid obesity to make the uberbucks?

How about the 10-state outbreak of Salmonella - Oct-Nov 2011?

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I don't know about you, but I don't serve my kids 88% meat + 12% chemicals and preservative ingredients (cellulose, trehalose, potassium chloride, soy lecithin, maltodextrin, torula yeast, sodium phosphate, fillers, artificial flavors or any other stuff from Monsanto's genetically-engineered crops). I don't think Taco Bell can improve on Mother Nature's pure products or on any ingredients I have selected to add to my recipes. My own taste buds are all the proof I need that something's not quite right with their offerings.

I guess those standards are OK for the anti-science/anti-anti-obesity crew, but I tend to err on the side of caution when it comes to what goes into my and my family's bodies.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/02/analysis-restaurant-a-revealed-to-be-taco-bell/#.UO8hA-RQX95

Or hiring an "exempt" (from OT pay) employee and - failing to advise him of that status,

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telling him he would work 10-hour days (thus giving the impression he would be earning 2 hours of OT each day), then requiring him to work 12-16 hours per day....ALL violations of state and federal labor laws? When the guy had a death in his family and asked for time off, he was told to find his own replacement. His manager declared, "I'm not here to help you."

After trying internal resolutions with HR, he was promptly fired. His was not an isolated case. In 2003, about 1,000 former employees of Taco Bell shared $1.5 million in a settlement for violation of labor laws. In 2001, Taco Bell paid out $13 million in an overtime lawsuit. It was accused of pressing for "off-the-clock" labor and intentionally classifying employees as overtime-exempt managers despite their primarily hourly-worker duties. In another 1999 class action lawsuit, 13,000 employees at 45 restaurants in Oregon contended that the fast-food chain violated overtime and meal-break rules.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/overtime_california/interview-overtime-pay-laws-15427.html?utm_expid=3607522-0&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F#.UO8ooORQX94

But they figured out how to incorporate DORITOS (yum) as a major - Al Fabbet

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part of the meal! Just when you thought that life couldn't get any better than delicious meat paste and fillers smothered in cheese and sour cream... Taco Bell took it and put it in a HUGE Dorito! U-S-A! Let's give 'em a tax break.

BTW... "anti-anti-obesity crew" LMFAO! Thank you for that.

You're glad the workers' hours are cut - because you don't like the food there?

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Unbelievable.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying... - RC

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Not.

Okay, good. Because your first post - indicated otherwise.

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"Those are pretty gross places to eat. I wonder why that is."

WHOOSH. - RC

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Yes, unbelievable. We're all GOOD readers. Save - the reinterpretations for a better set of victims.

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Good grief.

I think the fallout - LizMT75

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should be toward the corporations that refuse to provide for their employees rather than the ACA, IMHO.

Obamacare is making providing employee - benefits unaffordable

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to businesses. They do what they have to do. Saying that a business makes plenty of money to cover all these new expenses is just class envy and wishful thinking. Obamacare is driving them out of business and therefore the employees out of work.

The data on this has not changed - since last night.

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Already covered this false claim less than 24 hours ago. There's tons more where this came from but it's a good start for partisans determined to propagate fact-free smear.

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412675-Implications-of-the-Affordable-Care-Act-for-American-Business.pdf

Is there a time limit during which - these discussions can be made?

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After that, it can't be brought up again? News to me.

Your words, not mine. Did you read the link? - No comments to add to

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the sass?

No need for snark - It's okay to post again

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even if "the data on this has not changed since last night."

Good conversations advance, not get dragged backwards - by those opposed to new ideas. nm

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Obamacare is making - businesses

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that don't provide benefits provide them. Companies have been slashing hours to workers so they don't have to provide benefits for years, so why blame it on Obamacare? Companies have been doing all they can to keep from taking care of their employees for many years, so Obamacare is not to blame.

If that were true - they couldn't stay in business

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"Companies have been doing all they can to keep from taking care of their employees for many years...."

Yes, that's - exactly true, nm

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Most fast-food jobs are part time anyway. - n/m

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