Posted on 07/22/2015 3:22:51 PM PDT by dware
Seattle’s $15 minimum wage law is supposed to lift workers out of poverty and move them off public assistance. But there may be a hitch in the plan.
Evidence is surfacing that some workers are asking their bosses for fewer hours as their wages rise – in a bid to keep overall income down so they don’t lose public subsidies for things like food, child care and rent.
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Just fire their asses. Put them out on the street where they want to be. What a bunch of whining hypocrites.
Maybe this is a BS story. Maybe the employers are cuting the employees hours because it’s too expensive now. Not because the workers asked for it.
This is nothing new. Many people on disability have for years been working and earning up to a certain ceiling so they do not lose their disability benefits.
Fire 25 or so percent of them & tell the rest they’ll have to work much longer hours to make up for the ones now gone. Yeh, I know it’s not good business sense, but it makes for good schadenfreud.
My college boy has a job in Seattle catering. $15 an hour. When he is the “crew chief” he gets $18.50 an hour. They need more help and have been working him crazy. Halfway through day 4 tomorrow he’ll be on O.T., time and a half. He’ll be working on Friday, and they scheduled him for Saturday.
He told the gal “Um - Saturday too now? You know I’m already going to be on O.T. tomorrow?”
They found somebody else. While it would have been good money, I do get a bit worried about him working too hard. Today he got there at 5 am and left at 9 pm! Tomorrow it is 4:30 am to 8 pm. Running around to various events, etc.
I’m concerned that the company is stretching things a bit - and they might fall flat on their face. Over-scheduling, relying on too few people, and some of them pretty new. I’m not sure why they don’t have more workers. The pay seems really good for what they are doing.
So you’re saying it really is the workers who would rather not work? Hmm
Another option is the employers are expecting their employees to work weekend and OT so they can keep their obamacare payouts lower. I.e. Keeping their number of employees under 50.
Yes - I’m guessing obamacare has something to do with it.
>>> .... and then reality sets in.
No worries, our gubmint with the social justice activists will
(1) demand even higher rate, to help even more people
(2) blame Republicans and small business owners
So you see.... It’s not about the minimum wage, it’s about the FREE STUFF.
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