Superman4 said:
I wouldn’t say its exploitation for most scenarios. Being paid for your talent and worth to the company should be taken into consideration. Finding another Fry Guy to dip the potatoes in oil is hardly a hard job to fill or one that requires much talent. Minimum wage positions are generally the entry level menial task positions, you start to make more as responsibility and experience increase. Starting everyone out at $15/hr like in Seattle is just asking for a huge wage inequality issue. You will end up with Managers and Shift leaders etc. making the same as someone off the street with no experience, that doesn’t really bode well for employee morale. It’s just a bad idea all the way around. If a company wants to offer higher wages for its employees because it has run the math and decides it can do so than so be it, to force companies to pay what you think they should regardless of margins and sales revenue is overstepping. The "minimum" is a guideline that when increased to what is considered a high wage for entry level will only do damage to the middle class and broaden the gap between middle and upper class. |
Sadly, this is not true, at least where I live. In Puerto Rico a lot of employers have that "do more for less" attitude, and it has worsen thanks to the economic crisis . I work for a Microbiology laboratory and I'm in charge of the whole administrative area of it. I only earn $7.25. The company has the ability to pay wayyyy more to its employees more but my boss is a cheapstake.
