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LOL, well yeah, if im being honest, my company got pretty much got strict after 8.50.
It honestly baffles me that some people on this forum think that people could just keep their jobs if they are lazy, nope they get the boot, especially when wages are raised.
Silly liberals, we shouldn’t raise the minimum wage. We should cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires. That’s how you raise the living standards for the poor and middle class.
In response to public pressure and increasing scrutiny over the pay of its warehouse workers, Amazon enacted a $15 minimum wage for all its employees on 1 November, including workers at grocery chain Whole Foods, which it purchased in 2017.
All Whole Foods employees paid less than $15 an hour saw their wages increase to at least that, while all other team members received a $1 an hour wage increase and team leaders received a $2 an hour increase.
But since the wage increase, Whole Food employees have told the Guardian that they have experienced widespread cuts that have reduced schedule shifts across many stores, often negating wage gains for employees.
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The Illinois-based worker explained that once the $15 minimum wage was enacted, part-time employee hours at their store were cut from an average of 30 to 21 hours a week, and full-time employees saw average hours reduced from 37.5 hours to 34.5 hours. The worker provided schedules from 1 November to the end of January 2019, showing hours for workers in their department significantly decreased as the department’s percentage of the entire store labor budget stayed relatively the same.
Maybe the underlined will help the pro-minimum wage people understand.
The company has a budgeted amount of money they plan to spend on hours of labor. You can do whatever you want with the minimum wage.
Example...
If they want to spend $1200 per week in the frozen produce dept... you can mix it up any number of ways.
If the pay is $10 per hour, that means there are 120 hours per week to allocate. That's 3 full time workers for 40 hours per week.
If you want $15 per hour, that means there are 80 hours per week to allocate. That's 2 full time workers for 40 hrs per week. So someone is losing their job. Or those same 3 workers from above can have their hours cut from 40 per week, to 26 per week.
Either way, they are spending $1200 per week... and yes, they will be expected to get 120 hours of work done in 80 hours.
The cost differential will make it easier to introduce innovation. In your example, frozen produce that may be a some way that individual items are bundled so an employee can load a whole section at once, saving a minute or two in time. It may be using an upright freezer section that is loaded from the back as some warehouse grocery stores use. May be bigger packages so you have less handling.
Well if you kept your "stalking" opinion about me to yourself, then you probably wouldn't be arguing with other posters about your lack of reading comprehension.
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