Posted on 05/11/2021 7:32:49 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
We are seeing that most small business are low skilled sweat shops. They can’t compete with the paltry unemployment insurance being doled out. No good guys here.
$15.00/hr in LA is a sh!t wage.
Pay more than unemployment. Problem solved. Or go out of business. I could give a rats ass.
I am sure traitorous small businesses will not hesitate to hire these illegal scabs in a heart beat.
What kind of life does $15 an hour buy you in a city as expensive as L.A.?
Actually other reports say that most of the “small businesses” are in fact fast-food franchises or entry-level retail jobs, with CDL drivers and warehouse workers also needed.
Jobs people didn’t want before the lockdowns.
Part-time, near minimum-wage, with no fixed schedules and benefits. Why would anyone want to work in such a job?
What kind of life does $15 an hour buy you in a city as expensive as L.A.? ——————-
A double refrigerator box or a tent to live in.
The answer is simple, raise the minimum wage to $25/hour. That will certainly kill off small businesses even quicker. Remember, small businesses vote GOP so if Biden can get them all on government welfare they will vote Dem.
The answer is simple, raise the minimum wage to $25/hour. That will certainly kill off small businesses even quicker. Remember, small businesses vote GOP so if Biden can get them all on government welfare they will vote Dem.
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It’s really not about the minimum wage. It’s more about the piss-poor working conditions at most fast-food, retail, grocery stores, warehouses and manufacturing.
We have been a mainly white-collar service economy for decades. To go back to menial labor jobs is too much for most people.
“It will be a level 11 disastrophe when the free money runs out and there is a massive population of layabouts with no businesses left to employ them”
Lots of closed business.
The magic word: "benefits". Even the crappiest health care plan attracts younger workers, as long as it's "free".
Yes, the health plan is as important as the wage.
Offer good wages and good benefits and the labor shortage is solved.
Pay low wages with few if any benefits and you will have few or only crappy workers.
It’s a very simple solution. Pay better wages and benefits and get better workers.
It’s a very simple solution. Pay better wages and benefits and get better workers.
While that works for the employee, the employer is looking at the other side of that equation, i.e. after I pay your benefits and wages, what is the net positive effect for my business. Do my sales go up enough to cover your costs? Employers are not running a charity.
“Do my sales go up enough to cover your costs? Employers are not running a charity.”
Perhaps, but Costco pays $16.00 an hour to start, and the burger stand in town pays $15.00 an hour to start.
Those employers are making it work by paying wages at or above $15.00 an hour.
If other businesses cannot make it work at those wages, it is the business owner that is doing something wrong.
Nope.
We’re supposed to feel sorry for people who want to pay crap wages and no benefits.
Pay enough to allow someone to buy a house, send their kids to a decent school, save for retirement, and have healthcare or go out of business.
Anyone who thinks *ANY* job is ‘just a starter job’ or the like can end up homeless living under a bridge for all I care.
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What do employers do when other costs of business increase? If they can't absorb the cost then they pass it on. Employees should be no different.
Pay more.
Oh believe me, you will. You will. Every single item or service you attempt to purchase will either cost much, much more, and/or will be limited to what is available on Amazon. And those whose mental capacities are limited to static analysis will be scratching their asses wondering why everything is expensive and unemployment keeps going up.
That doesn’t even make sense. If your level of experience warrants x dollars per hour and it’s competitive with the market why should the government put their hands into the mix and force higher wages in the market for something they don’t even have an interest in competing in.
You statement basically says that you’re fine with government handouts and people collecting money for doing nothing.
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