Stop Sodexo!

Sodexo, a multi-billion dollar international food service company, which services hundreds of college campuses across the country, has announced it will eliminate existing health care coverage and benefits for thousands of workers. And, they are blaming the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare.” I need your help to make Sodexo stop doing this.

For 8 years, I have worked for Sodexo at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, proudly serving food to students on campus. My husband is a cancer survivor with an inoperable tumor in his chest. Having health care means everything to us.
 
When college is in session, I am scheduled to work 37 hours per week. Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires employers to provide benefits to employees who work at least 30 hours a week, I should be covered, right?
 
Wrong. Using a loophole in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Sodexo now says school year workers, like me, have to average more than 30 hours a week on a 52-week calendar in order to qualify for benefits like healthcare and sick days.
 
Got that? They didn't cut my hours. I'm still working the same amount of time. Instead, Sodexo has used a loophole in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to make me “part-time”.  Since Sodexo cut my health insurance, I found out that I was not eligible for Indiana Medicaid or subsidies through the exchanges. Today, my husband and I have no coverage.
 
Tell Sodexo to stop using the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as an excuse to cut benefits for workers.
 
I am just one of thousands of Sodexo workers nationwide who have been reclassified as "part-time." Nothing changed for us. We still work the same amount of hours. Now, we don't have benefits.
 
What Sodexo is doing violates the spirit of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This sets a dangerous precedent for workers. Using Sodexo’s logic, every teacher in America could be considered “part-time.”
 
Tell Sodexo to stop using the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as an excuse to cut benefits for workers.
 
Sodexo is a huge company with 125,000 employees in the United States - and had revenues last year of over $25 billion. That’s just shy of McDonalds. That's how big it is. 
 
Now, this major corporation is hiding behind the Affordable Care Act to hurt workers like me. To be clear, the law doesn't require Sodexo to make me “part-time,” but nothing in the law prevents Sodexo from doing so. As a result, workers like me have lost health insurance and other benefits at work.
 
The clear intent of the Affordable Care Act is to increase health care coverage for millions nationwide. We all fought hard for that.  Now we need your help to close the Sodexo loophole. 
 
Tell Sodexo to stop using the Affordable Care Act as an excuse to cut benefits for workers.
 
At this point, nothing stops other companies from doing the same thing. And, they're watching to see if Sodexo gets away with it. We can't let them.

Sign my petition and help send Sodexo a message that you are with us in our fight.