Posted on 05/02/2016 2:27:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to Seattle's $15-an-hour minimum wage from franchise owners who say the law discriminates against them by treating them as large businesses.
Seattle was one of the first cities in the nation to adopt a law aiming for a $15 minimum wage, giving small businesses employing fewer than 500 people seven years to phase it in. Large employers must do so over three or four years, depending on whether they offer health insurance to their employees.
Franchises say they are small businesses and should have more time to phase in the higher wage.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
Don’t get mad...
Bring in the robots.
Don’t get mad, leave and take your taxes with you.
Liberals ruin everything everywhere they go.
Maybe it’s time to just Close, Sell Off everything and Retire, hell maybe even collect a Government check.
Don’t you get it, franchisees? They don’t want you.
Some employees are already crying they’ve been laid off because of that $15/hr. Franchise folks can’t handle that increase. Then too, what of those already making more than the MW, would they get an increase as well? What if they’re making more, would they then be dropped down to $15?
Nice for once to see the Supreme Court not getting into local legislative matters. The $15 minimum wage while not good for business, should not be answered by the SCOTUS.
Now the government gets to dictate how much money private businesses have to pay to their employees.
SCOTUS wont/cant help you.
Get out of the libbysheethole called Seattle and move somewhere in the real America.
"Dont get mad... Bring in the robots."
No, shut down the franchises in the area. Robots aren't cheap and given the history of Seattle anarchists, they'd routinely be torn up completely or suffer major damage.
Let Mooch cry about it becoming a restaurant desert and the same people who lost their jobs because of the higher wages can burn down whatever is still there.
Will be any owners going out of business, and many workers joining the unemployment line.
Already here where I am there has been a surge in food prices and I have shifted to other outlets.
I look a the young workers in grocery stores where prices have gone way up and I can see the fear in their eyes. They know their jobs are soon to be gone.
It’s not their fault, and it’s not the fault of owners, but you can only take so much from the consumer before they find other ways.
SCOTUS made a mistake here. And SCOTUS will be accountable, eventually.
Been nice having jobs out there, hasn’t it? All of us back East will take your jobs here...and hope that your commie neighbors stay out there. Sorry to be callous.
As Robert Bork once said, the Constitution doesn’t prohibit bad law, and not all bad laws are unconstitutional.
wonderful, let the layoffs begin
The $15/hour minimum won’t be completely phased-in for several more years, but I’ve already noticed a jump in fast-food prices and longer waiting times because of fewer employees. McDonalds used to have two or three counter people, now they often have just one, and sometimes that one is busy with other duties.
THEY GON LEARN.
No they isn't. They never does. They'll just riot, blame the 1%, vote Democrat and demand a guaranteed gov'mint wage. All the gov'mint needs to do is print more money to pay for it, right?
“...given the history of Seattle anarchists, they’d routinely be torn up completely or suffer major damage.”
You’re right.
I didn’t take that into consideration - that’s a very real risk.
Gov’t should have no business in deciding how much someone gets paid.
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