| Zappykins said: That may be a conservative talking point but it is not the reality today for many workers at McDonalds. I mentioned Starbucks because they provide full benefits to min wage employees. Which many companies say can not be done. Also, after you have worked at Starbucks you can start buying stock and the company will match it. Thus employees become owners in the company and also get a share if they company pays a dividend. They make extra money if the company does well. Why can't McDonalds so something like this? Take at look at InNOut, it's a company that starts employees usually around double minimum and pays them well. Managers can make upwards of $50k and store managers can make over $135,000.00 per year. Why would they need to go somewhere else. Did you even consider my point about how employees should have a profit share if the company is successful? And the ratio of ridiculously high paid upper managers should not be tolerated. Also, I think their needs to be separate minimum wages based on the size/profits of the company. |
The workers making min wage at McD's wouldn't hack it at an In n Out. In N Out has higher standards and thus pays a higher wage. I didn't know about the health care offered by Starbucks(although Mc D's also offers health care it varies by location). Also In N Out isnt really comparable, they aren't franchised out, they are corporate owned, so they can dictate the pay at every restaurant and have tighter controls on everything. Mc D's is franchised, so every location with a different owner may have different pay scales. We can do things like in n out, but what will happen is you will less over all employed people. In n OUt can do what it does because they very carefully choose locations, and do not over saturate. If McD's followed the same strategy they would simply have less locations, and less over all employees. If these things can be done, than people who believe in them should start companies and start paying their workers 15 an hour. If its so easy. The problem is not everyone is the same, some people work hard, very hard, they tend to move up extremly fast in the food industry, some people dont work hard, they tend to not move up. If we make the starting wage higher we will just be hurting people who are trying to get a foot in the door work wise.
Edit: I know that its a reality that people are stuck in food jobs right now as careers. But its not what they should be doing, these are easy to train for jobs that require little to no skill or education. Just becasue the economy is in the crapper, and the government cant turn it around doesn't mean you make bad policies, that will hamper an employers ability to hire. If the government hadn't over regulatted many other business to death already perhaps there would be better jobs/careers out there for these workers to move on into.
