9/25/2013 3:09 PM
Gary and Doug,
I'm a little surprised although maybe it's part of the exercise to see if you can get your work done inside those parameters, but large employers like yourselves are exempt next year from the implementation as far as the healthcare issue is concerned, aren't they?
I know we will soon be starting our budget process to turn in by December for the 2014-15 year and it would be good to know what requirements we will be facing. I do know our city system is anyone over 1500 hours need to be offered benefits, so I believe that is about 28.8 hours per week for 52 weeks, really 30 hours per week, since if they hit the 1500 hour mark then they earn two weeks' vacation.
I might be proactive and e-mail my supervisor about this.
As far as finding employees in the past, I have used various amounts of retirees and students, of course students were a little easier to find being on a college campus. We would have as many as 20 people, but many only worked 25 to 30 hours or even less depending on their class schedule. I was lucky to find a couple of people that had experience and just worked weekends (was lucky I guess). I do know it sometimes makes it a little tough to find a retiree that can do more than mowing, so the skilled/grunt work will typically fall on your FTE's. Only problem we have here is there are only 3 of us, makes it a little tough in the summer when we have to sometimes mow first and projects get prioritized.
Mel
Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO