15 minimum wage in action.
“15 minimum wage in action.”
While the declining desire by companies to hire, especially low skilled workers, is affected by their wage, that is only one of a dozen or more negatives created by federal, state, county and city employment legislation and regulations. For example, Florida has something called “The Potty Parity rule.” For every urinal in the men’s room the company must build a full sit-down stall in the woman’s room. In the company where I last worked there were about three women and three hundred men. The waiting line in the men’s rooms were ridiculous. When I enquired as to why, I found out about the potty rule. It originated when the, at the time, governor’s wife attended a stadium event and there was a long line in front of the ladies’ room. She just went into the men’s room. It caused a huge uproar and she pushed for and got the rule. The impact on the facility where I worked would have been a few million. It also limited the growth of the facility and its business. It’s unintended consequences like that which impact things long after some idiot pens a new rule.
That $15 wage is affecting jobs in areas where it is not the law. Pushed to go robotic companies like McDonalds find buying self order and pay kiosks in bulk is pretty cheap. McDonalds is upgrading all their stores.