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Maybe the employees should take that time to get their stuff together and not be on minimum wage.
It's impossible if you need to put food on the table quick and pay your bills. Learning a trade skill / going to college in hope of getting a new job takes time and money, and no guarantee in success. Many college workers make only $10 - 12/h.
It's impossible if you need to put food on the table quick and pay your bills. Learning a trade skill / going to college in hope of getting a new job takes time and money, and no guarantee in success. Many college workers make only $10 - 12/h.
People do it all the time and people that have been successful were never guaranteed success either - they just went ahead.
Of course they can. Fast food can just raise prices. Grocery stores can just raise prices. The problem is they can not attract business because a business that pays $15 and hour one place can't compete with one that pays $9 elsewhere and most certainly can't with one that pays $2 in China.
People like MX have to have their cheap shoes.
Wow you want us to be like China, a country does treats its employees like cr**!
Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand should be our role model, not a 3rd world country!
I don't care if small businesses cannot afford paying $15/h to their employees which is a joke anyway (not even required to pay any benefits so that's another significant savings for them.) Don't hire more people if you cannot afford; I'm sure Walmart and Kohl's are looking for to hire more employees.
Of course you don't care, because you're totally ignorant about what it takes to run a business or have any idea what kind of businesses employee the vast majority of people. It's ironic you don't care if a small business can't afford this government mandated pay increase and then expect people to go work for Walmart, the liberal whipping boy for low wages.
Let's see here, a person stocking shelves who works 40 hours a week at $15 per hour will make $30,000 annually.
Now, if you owned a business, and you could buy a robot who could work 160 hours a week and cost $50,000, do you think you might want to consider switching over?
Of course you don't care, because you're totally ignorant about what it takes to run a business or have any idea what kind of businesses employee the vast majority of people. It's ironic you don't care if a small business can't afford this government mandated pay increase and then expect people to go work for Walmart, the liberal whipping boy for low wages.
Says you who don't also care about workers' living under poverty, could barely (if at all) paying for their rent/housing cost, putting food on the table, etc. Or you want the government to provide all of that through your tax money?
Congratulations to the city of Los Angeles raising its minimum wage to $15/h by 2020 for larger businesses and 2021 for smaller businesses
This will be the largest city in America with highest minimum wage in the nation. This will help 1 million workers' who live under poverty.
Maybe if they lowered their housing costs, folks would not be living under the poverty level standard
there in the first place. Never understood the housing market out there for dumps.
Except that college and trade school isn't for everyone... nothing wrong working at low-skill jobs!
Unless that low-skill job is your job while in school, just starting out, after retirement, a second job, the only job due to a disability or a stop-gap job, yes, there is something wrong with having it.
Adults, especially those who support a family, need to have a skilled job, and it's up to them to acquire those skills.
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Or you want the government to provide all of that through your tax money?