The grandfathers of this generation of managers felt they needed to pay a certain level of wages PLUS good benefits to find the workers they needed. For some reason this generation of managers feel entitled to have these workers provided to them on a platter at a discounted cost.
Well, benefits have now become a government trap with an unlimited potential cost liability. The logical path is for companies to offer higher salaries in exchange for the employees seeking out group benefits from private providers - but the government doesn’t like that idea one bit because it shoves the camel’s nose back out of the tent. :)
It is not only the low skill people that are not getting paid worth a damn, but higher skilled people too....
it is an employers market right now, and if you don’t want to take a 25% pay cut, we will just hire someone else..
This has happened before ( twice in my lifetime )..
The problem these newbie managers do not see is that the pendulum always swings back the other way..
loyalty pays off in the longrun..