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Another issue when you set a static number like "more than 20" or "more than 50" is a company may approach that number and simply stop expanding when they reach it.
Another issue when you set a static number like "more than 20" or "more than 50" is a company may approach that number and simply stop expanding when they reach it.
Then service goes down, then they lose customers to the restaurant across the street. Maybe even one started by former employees (who do care about the health and welfare of their employees*).
*note: could go either way, but it's a example............
The law in SF has been in place for a year. And yes, plannine, you are correct it is more whining by the news outlet.
The restaurants in SF haven't all disappeared due to some perceived new outrageous tax
They're all doing pretty well, considering the economic shift we've all had this past couple of years.
HappyTexan, if and when you ever come to SF I'll be happy to give you more than a few amazing restaurant recommendations...
The company could just plateau and do less business than they could, building a company is long and very hard process with many hurdles. The first and hardest is hiring that first employee, for example if you have a business you are running by yourself and you begin to get more work than you can handle you have two choices. Firstly you could take a cut in pay to hire someone and make a lot of personal financial sacrifice and take on all the additional work that goes along with hring someone. The risk is large but the potential benefit long term is substantial. If your business continues to grow it will have been well worth the risk. The second choice is to play it safe and stop taking more work.
Companies that are growing will now face that same decision when they reach the number of employees where the mandate comes in. Risk it or just let the comapny plateau? Paying the health insurance for 50 employees especially when most companies that large that do not have it are employing unskilled labor is quite an expense. The $100,000 employee working for a company that laready has health insurance has it because they are valuable, joe smoe with no education or skills is dime a dozen.
The money will come from somewhere though, they'll just slash pay for employees already making very little. Democrats have some kind of pipe dream that this mandate is going to provide health insurance to those that currently don't have it and expect the company to absorb the cost? That's laughable, the worker will ultimately pay this. Basically a tax on them not the company.
The law in SF has been in place for a year. And yes, plannine, you are correct it is more whining by the news outlet.
The restaurants in SF haven't all disappeared due to some perceived new outrageous tax
They're all doing pretty well, considering the economic shift we've all had this past couple of years.
HappyTexan, if and when you ever come to SF I'll be happy to give you more than a few amazing restaurant recommendations...
Where's your data? Do you know for sure or are you just blowing smoke?
We did this thread months a ago. San Francisco has thousands of resturants and one disgruntled owner who could move to the suburbs if it upsets him that much.
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