More employers should take the time to explain the basic lessons of economics to their employees.
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Or take each one, individually, and hand them their gross pay in cash.
Count it out to them, say thanks for your weeks work.
Then proceed to take - one by one - all the deductions that YOU are required to withhold from the persons check.
This is only secondary to having each employee PAY his own deductions, but we all know that ‘aint gonna fly’.
People realize that the deductions come out, BUT when they actually see the $1500.00 in cash and watch it slowly dwindle down to the $1000.00 take home pay. (amounts for example only, no actually ‘math’ involved <:)
Almost makes one want to go home, sit on duff and collect, unemployment and all the other goodies, including a FREE phone etc etc etc....
Not to mention the FICA and FUTA taxes, health insurance and other employee benefits that come out of the employer’s paycheck.