Yep--if we take power next year one item on our agenda needs to be overhauling how we determine a federal minimum wage, and particularly keeping it adjusted to inflation so we don't have to revisit this every few years.
Seattle moved it's minimum wage up to $15 a few years ago. This weekend I was in Seattle and counted 9 building cranes from my view at the Starbucks drive-thru at Lake Union. So the wage has not sent the city into a downward spiral. Far from it.
So yer saying that nothing will happen? Wow, then freedom rules! According to my maternal person, it's all socialism and Hillary! Whereas I think it's mental masturbation and Vince Foster. Or maybe those little virus things that infest those plastic water bottle threads!
Yeah, I noticed that, too. Like, sure, you through a couple of multi-million dollar salaries in there and your average is fucked. Tell me the mean, median, and mode. That's a LOT more useful.
They'll actually still have to increase their wage pay offers if they're paying above minimum wage already. Which is why they want/need it to stay low. That's one of the boons to increasing minimum wage is EVERYONE's wages go up, not just the poor people making the burgers and fries.
I live in a city where the minimum hourly wage is $15. My wage is about a dollar and a half higher, and I get benefits. This means that I can keep my roof, put some food on the table, and keep the lights on.
I just used MIT's living wage calculator. I need another $1.02/hour to make it to a living wage, but I got so used to living on nothing year after year that I have well-developed habits of thrift.
Oh, for a hot minute there I thought you were talking about the SCOTUS. The "conservative" SCOTUS will overturn the Minnesota SCOM on appeal. Bet on it.
If an employer is paying higher than minimum wage already, they have a reason for doing so. Minimum wage going up doesn't necessarily make the reason go away, particularly if the desired affect depends less on the absolute dollar amount paid than on the amount *above minimum wage*.
If, for instance, you've found a marginally better workforce gives you a competitive edge, no matter what minimum wage is you'll pay a little extra in order to ensure you have your pick of the low-wage labor market.
It is now up to state policymakers to explicitly prohibit these ordinances so employers can spend less time understanding and complying with duplicative or inconsistent laws and devote more time to innovating, growing and hiring new employees.
Many states are enacting sales tax for online retailers, requiring them to pay sales tax in the taxing district that the purchaser lives in. This requires the retailers to set up accounts in the states that have state sales tax, keep track of the tax rates in each of those states, and pay those taxes to those states. So far, no one seems to think it's a burden for online retailers to have to comply with all these different laws and file tax forms and returns in each state. While that's probably not a big deal for big corporations with accounting departments to handle that, your Aunt Minnie with her Etsy store is subject to the same laws, and no one seems to think that's any sort of burden or them, either.
I worked for a unionized state agency. One administration did an audit of wages and ended up giving the employees big increases because the old wages were based on a typewriter and telephone system rather than computers and emails and didn't reflect the skills needed for the new technology.
Every time the union brought up an improvement that was needed in the workplace, management would respond with, "But we gave you a big pay raise."
The president of the local's response was, "You're buying our time and skill, not our souls."
Yep--if we take power next year one item on our agenda needs to be overhauling how we determine a federal minimum wage, and particularly keeping it adjusted to inflation so we don't have to revisit this every few years.
They still do it here, and they make very sure to point out how benevolent they're being all the fucking time.
Seattle moved it's minimum wage up to $15 a few years ago. This weekend I was in Seattle and counted 9 building cranes from my view at the Starbucks drive-thru at Lake Union. So the wage has not sent the city into a downward spiral. Far from it.
So yer saying that nothing will happen? Wow, then freedom rules! According to my maternal person, it's all socialism and Hillary! Whereas I think it's mental masturbation and Vince Foster. Or maybe those little virus things that infest those plastic water bottle threads!
Yep. I make more than this, and I still can't pay my mortgage without a roommate. And I don't even have student loan debt.
funny how when everybody makes more money, there tends to be more money in the local economy. you would think republicans would be all for more money.
Yeah, I noticed that, too. Like, sure, you through a couple of multi-million dollar salaries in there and your average is fucked. Tell me the mean, median, and mode. That's a LOT more useful.
They'll actually still have to increase their wage pay offers if they're paying above minimum wage already. Which is why they want/need it to stay low. That's one of the boons to increasing minimum wage is EVERYONE's wages go up, not just the poor people making the burgers and fries.
I live in a city where the minimum hourly wage is $15. My wage is about a dollar and a half higher, and I get benefits. This means that I can keep my roof, put some food on the table, and keep the lights on.
I just used MIT's living wage calculator. I need another $1.02/hour to make it to a living wage, but I got so used to living on nothing year after year that I have well-developed habits of thrift.
Oh, for a hot minute there I thought you were talking about the SCOTUS. The "conservative" SCOTUS will overturn the Minnesota SCOM on appeal. Bet on it.
Only if they're the ones getting it.
Otherwise, nah.
If an employer is paying higher than minimum wage already, they have a reason for doing so. Minimum wage going up doesn't necessarily make the reason go away, particularly if the desired affect depends less on the absolute dollar amount paid than on the amount *above minimum wage*.
If, for instance, you've found a marginally better workforce gives you a competitive edge, no matter what minimum wage is you'll pay a little extra in order to ensure you have your pick of the low-wage labor market.
The Federal minimum wage needs to be factored just like the Social Security COLA's. Take the fucking politics out of it.
It is now up to state policymakers to explicitly prohibit these ordinances so employers can spend less time understanding and complying with duplicative or inconsistent laws and devote more time to innovating, growing and hiring new employees.
Many states are enacting sales tax for online retailers, requiring them to pay sales tax in the taxing district that the purchaser lives in. This requires the retailers to set up accounts in the states that have state sales tax, keep track of the tax rates in each of those states, and pay those taxes to those states. So far, no one seems to think it's a burden for online retailers to have to comply with all these different laws and file tax forms and returns in each state. While that's probably not a big deal for big corporations with accounting departments to handle that, your Aunt Minnie with her Etsy store is subject to the same laws, and no one seems to think that's any sort of burden or them, either.
I worked for a unionized state agency. One administration did an audit of wages and ended up giving the employees big increases because the old wages were based on a typewriter and telephone system rather than computers and emails and didn't reflect the skills needed for the new technology.
Every time the union brought up an improvement that was needed in the workplace, management would respond with, "But we gave you a big pay raise."
The president of the local's response was, "You're buying our time and skill, not our souls."