Since you accused me of stating that *I* hired part-time employees in my
practice to avoid paying benefits, I'd say you owe me an apology.



By way of apology, I'll avoid googling up the thread where you did specifically
claim to prefer to hire people of a certain age group- too old to take off on
maternity leave and still young enough to raise you health insurance experience
rating.

Since you insist that the best practice is to hire two 25 hour workers to do 50
hours worth of work rather than hire a 40-hour person and pay overtime and
benefits, you ask us to believe that you knowingly follow the less than optimum
financial course for the welfare of your employees. That's very "liberal" of
you, Doc, you should be proud.
:-)