Posted on 05/19/2015 7:57:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Los Angeles lawmakers are expected to vote Tuesday on a hotly debated plan to hike the minimum wage across the city to at least $15 an hour.
If they press forward with that plan, the city could soon join Seattle, San Francisco and other West Coast cities that have boosted wages as part of a national campaign led by labor and community groups to reduce poverty, even as business groups argue the strategy will backfire as employers slash jobs.
Workers are currently supposed to earn at least the California state minimum wage of $9 an hour, which will rise to $10 an hour in January. Under a plan endorsed by a key panel of City Council members last week, Los Angeles would increase its required wage year-by-year to reach a minimum of $15 hourly by July 2020.
Small businesses -- those with 25 workers or fewer -- would get an additional year to phase in the increases. Nonprofits that meet certain requirements could ask permission to do the same.
Under the plan, the wage requirements would continue to rise automatically every year starting in July 2022, based on the average increase in the consumer price index over the previous two decades.
The wage proposal would hike pay more slowly than some activists wanted. But leaders in the Raise the Wage Coalition nonetheless heralded it last week as a sound plan to improve the standard of living for low-income workers and their families.
Business groups such as the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and the Valley Industry and Commerce Assn. remain worried the hikes would hurt the economy and have been especially critical of the automatic, future pay increases as a threat to businesses.
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In 1966, after HS graduation, I went to work for the OH State Hwy Dept, as a Flagman. It was an entry-level, temporary-position, Summer Job; prior to attending college in the Fall.
I was paid $1.65 an hour. The permanent job-holders on the road crews were making ~$2.50 an hour.
I would have been thrilled to have made $2.00.
America’s Marxists are absolutely intent on destroying all of America’s economic activity.
McDonalds workers are paid so little because they are worth so little. It’s flippin’ burgers for crying our loud. These are beginners’ jobs for unskilled high school students. These are not career positions.
The work being performed is not worth minimum wage as it is. They are being paid 7.25 only because government forces the business to pay that.
The best workers for these jobs are people just starting out and learning how to work.
If someone has worked at a McDonalds for longer than 4 years (Unless they are management or the rare college student continuing his high school job) then they are pretty much worthless people. They have demonstrated NO motivation to better themselves and they deserve no more pay than what they started at. (Truth be told most of them deserve pay cuts)
(BTW, all minimum wage laws are a violation of the employers, and employees right to privacy. Government has no right to intrude into a private matter)
Lower the minimum?
So you and the GOP want to pay people 3 bucks an hour where they can go into debt just paying for gas to get to work? No need to pay rent, they can just live out of their 25 year old cars right? What's the problem, right poopman?
Actually I want to pay them $.25 an hour / S
I have alway sbeen in favor of tiered system that pays people based on job experience and abilities and skills...under the age of 18
I see no problem paying a fresh faced 16 year old with zero job skills $3.00 an hour to start and fast paced raises based on their ability...30 days get a $1.00 more, 60 days get $2.00 more, 90 days $3.00 more...
A LOT more kids would get hired and earn something...and get a start in their potential careers..
I think your a GOP fraud and the reason the weasel unions will eventually own Chinese product dealers like Walmart.
Are you stalking me...?
Wow, I'm impressed...I got your panties in a twist...
BTW, the unions will never own Wal-Mart...
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