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Too many employers rely on a model that requires that people work for peanuts.
If the workers aren’t worth a decent wage, what makes the product worth even a penny?
Show me, in detail, a business model that allows an employer to pay their employees more than the market value of their labor.
Explain how an employer can pay a worker $15/hr when their labor is only worth $10/hr?
You can't.
Because the only employer who gets away with doing that isn't a business.
Uh no. We all knew that companies could increase wages but they didn’t want to so they claimed they couldn’t. We are now seeing that yes, yes they CAN increase wages. Has nothing to do with immigration. Take it to the immigration forum if you can’t bear to not bring up immigration in every single topic.
Maybe corporate, but private may not be able to. Unless you are in a high end upper scale restaurant, those kind of jobs were never meant to be a career, they are entry level jobs for high school and college kids, maybe retired people who either need to supplement their social security or something to do. They are not designed to be a career. I hope those who are living off the backs of those who are working and taxes being taken out of their paychecks, are using the money to go to trade schools to learn a trade.
Someone might want to read the title of this topic again. Employers are claiming there is a labor shortage to justify hiring illegal aliens instead. When in fact it is the employer who doesn't want to pay a fair wage for a job so they can increase their profits with cheap, illegal labor but that doesn't equate to an American labor shortage. That is absolutely on topic!
The CEO of restaurant chain &pizza says there's no labor shortage, only a wage shortage.
He's been paying employees $16/hr since before the pandemic and says he's fully staffed.
He said he'd received more than 100 applications for each job this year.
Someone might want to read the title of this topic again. Employers are claiming there is a labor shortage to justify hiring illegal aliens instead. When in fact it is the employer who doesn't want to pay a fair wage for a job so they can increase their profits with cheap, illegal labor but that doesn't equate to an American labor shortage. That is absolutely on topic!
Which is precisely why Republicans want to embrace symbolic measures taht are not effective. They want to blame the illegals while turning a blind eye to their supporters who hire them. If they were serious, they'd fix legal immegration, and hold accountable those who hire illegals. If they did that, then DEMS would also be forced to hold illegals accountable for their actions.
Not to heap blame on one side, NEITHER party is interested in fixing this problem. It suits them, they are both wings of the same bird.
Yes, I agree 100%. For far too long, corporations and businesses are either still stuck in the 1980's COL, or rely heavily on people receiving welfare so never had to worry about raising their wages. Well, those people are now retiring and the new people coming out need more money now for housing, food and clothing and to pay for the expensive degrees these businesses demand from their workers. Used to be you could start as a bag boy at the local grocery story and work your way up to management within 20 years. Now the same company wants you to have a degree in business administration, human resources or psychology before you can even think about going for a management position.
they don't promote from within? They're hiring store managers with zero grocery experience so long as they have a degree?
Someone might want to read the title of this topic again. Employers are claiming there is a labor shortage to justify hiring illegal aliens instead. When in fact it is the employer who doesn't want to pay a fair wage for a job so they can increase their profits with cheap, illegal labor but that doesn't equate to an American labor shortage. That is absolutely on topic!
No, as a business owner and talking with others, people are not wanting to work. Believe me, no way are we hiring illegals.
The CEO of restaurant chain &pizza says there's no labor shortage, only a wage shortage.
He's been paying employees $16/hr since before the pandemic and says he's fully staffed.
He said he'd received more than 100 applications for each job this year.
So goes the claim that we need illegal aliens here to do the jobs that Americans supposedly won't do for a fair wage.
There is no doubt a shortage of labor with education and good work ethics.
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