Posted on 02/29/2016 4:36:43 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Edited on 02/29/2016 7:15:27 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
You’ve heard the battle cries over paying workers a “living wage.” Now, get ready for the next phase: “Livable schedules.”
On the heels of Seattle passing a controversial $15 minimum wage law, the City Council there is now drafting an ordinance that aims to shift power away from employers when it comes to how workers are scheduled and paid.
Hmmmm, I wonder if Seattle’s businesses are ready for this?
Seattle will soon become a ghost town ...
This is a WONDERFUL idea! I can’t wait for Seattle to try it and show us how it works, while proving how virtuous and insane they are. The world needs more examples like this in places where it won’t hurt me. Seattle really needs the horrid fascination of a good car crash.
“among some workers “
And what do the unemployed think of this?
The FMCSA requires truckers to have 10 hours off between shifts, no more than 70 hours of work before having a 34 hour break for a reset in an 8 day period. (You get a new 70 after your 34 off.)
Let’s see them use our rules for doctors to avoid practitioner burn out. But burger flippers?
I’d give them lots of time between shifts.
Because the economy isn’t crippled enough, apparently.
Listen to that sound. That is the sound of business fleeing to Texas. Austin will be larger that Seattle before long.
Seattle has a huge tent city, along with a huge population that lives under bridges. This will increase that population.
What is the legal basis for the city to interfere with private enterprise in such a fashion?
A friend of mine who worked in restaurants once mentioned how she got put on a closing shift and would get off at 2am and then would have to be back at 10am only to leave at 8pm and then would have to be back the following morning at 5am.
She said she did that a few times and then quit because it was torture.
lol its like detroit only with sky high real estate prices
There will be more unemployed as a result of this.
“Despite the threat of unintended consequences, the Seattle City Council is expected to pass a livable schedules ordinance later this year.”
You have to wonder just what Seattle will look like with no restaurants, coffee shops, you name it. So people will have to drive elsewhere to eat out, and at the same time, they will shoulder more of the tax burden as businesses relocate out side the ciy limitsI I actually thought it would be hard to be more Marxist than San Francisco, but Seattle has succeeded!
NO question about it.
Smart Canadians ought to start practicing their "Texasese, y'all."
Sooooo.....the State controls everyone’s business now—sets the pay, sets the times. Hmmmm.
Whom in their right mind would run a “business” when the State dictates what you can and can not do......Benjamin Franklin would have a field day with these socialists/fascists-—but then, our schools only produce non-thinking “Bernie Bots” (hardly a Ben Franklin) with their NCLB and Common Core “Menticide” curricula, designed by Billy Ayers-types and CAIR for decades now to destroy cognitive function and control worldview.
The schools don’t educate, they do “operant conditioning”-—so children remain so ignorant and dumb they “think” that Socialism is “good” and “kind” when it always destroys Free Will, Individualism and the ability to “think outside the box”.
YES.
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