Topic: Deal reached to take California minimum wage to $15 an hour - page 2. (Read 1271 times)
An employee that makes $14 (and takes home somewhere around $12 after payroll deductions) cost the employer around $19 an hour...thanks to your government almost 40% (Medicaid, Medicare, unemployment, state, federal and local taxes, employee training)of what you make goes to the Government. It's a great scam. The Government makes you poor and blames your employer. Oh and by the way...don't forget to pay that 7%+ sales tax and that property tax and all the fees associated with your vehicle license with what you have left.
The problem I have with min wage is as people push it up the jobs that where paying just a bit more say warehouse worker will want more.
Which is only fair and every one as you go up will want more,this is how it should work but from what I see the min wage goes up and the middle of the pack stays stagnant. Curious to see how this works out long term as min wage gets pushed in so many areas.
I live here in Canada and the min wage is the lowest in all the Provinces. Combine that with one of the worlds highest real estate markets,low rental availability and you wonder how long the system stays above water. We have a lot of empty houses from Chinese investors and they let the houses rot because the land is more valuable.
People will bash unions all day long but forget that weekends and a 8 hour shift are in place because people fought for those rights!
You can load up and bash unions all day long but remember you could be sitting at work 14-18 hour days living on a company site if it was not for them. I mention this because its usually a aspect people attack when mentioning min wage.
Which is only fair and every one as you go up will want more,this is how it should work but from what I see the min wage goes up and the middle of the pack stays stagnant. Curious to see how this works out long term as min wage gets pushed in so many areas.
I live here in Canada and the min wage is the lowest in all the Provinces. Combine that with one of the worlds highest real estate markets,low rental availability and you wonder how long the system stays above water. We have a lot of empty houses from Chinese investors and they let the houses rot because the land is more valuable.
People will bash unions all day long but forget that weekends and a 8 hour shift are in place because people fought for those rights!
You can load up and bash unions all day long but remember you could be sitting at work 14-18 hour days living on a company site if it was not for them. I mention this because its usually a aspect people attack when mentioning min wage.
I live in California but if the minimum wage goes to 10 bucks or above, you can forget about any waitress getting a tip from me. That was the whole idea of tips.If they are making that much, the restaurant will have to charge more.Its a lose lose situation. It's just a generation that was raised with no punishment and all reward expecting high pay and no work.
I will find it pretty hilarious to watch these people dig their own graves, economists have warned against this kind of thing for years, arbitrarily raising the minimum wage is going to do fuck all.
Just one more thing to kill business, specifically small businesses, the ones that are supposed to be the back bone of the entire market.
I understand that workers should be paid fairly but this is ridiculous, a higher minimum wage means higher unemployment. Businesses won't be able to afford paying larger sums of money to their workers, especially when they need to pay for infrastructure, utilities and lets not forget TAXES.
Taxes are at an all time high, especially in California. We're just sucking money away from everyone!
The minimum wage does have to increase or decrease depending on the buying power of the currency and, usually, the rate of inflation and other factors. But we can't increase it if we're going to tax the living hell out of those businesses!
I understand that workers should be paid fairly but this is ridiculous, a higher minimum wage means higher unemployment. Businesses won't be able to afford paying larger sums of money to their workers, especially when they need to pay for infrastructure, utilities and lets not forget TAXES.
Taxes are at an all time high, especially in California. We're just sucking money away from everyone!
The minimum wage does have to increase or decrease depending on the buying power of the currency and, usually, the rate of inflation and other factors. But we can't increase it if we're going to tax the living hell out of those businesses!
All minimum wage laws do is create MORE unemployment. They have to fire more people to pay a smaller handful more money. You want to fix the problem? Go after the ridiculous tax system we have here. Creating more burdens for small to medium sized business owners only does one thing... drives them away, then there is no one to pay people but enormous corporations that provide nothing but dead end jobs. I wish people could get paid a living wage too, but this is not a solution.
Ever been to San Diego? Things are like 3x more expensive there, and it's near impossible to live on minimum wage. Especially if you have a family. Good, hope it goes through.
California legislators and labor unions have reached a tentative agreement that will take the state's minimum wage from $10 to $15 an hour, a state senator said, a move that would make for the largest statewide minimum in the nation by far.
"This is not a done deal," Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "Everyone's been operating in good faith and we hope to get it through the Legislature."
Leno said if an agreement is finalized, it would go before the Legislature as part of his minimum-wage bill that stalled last year.
If the Legislature approves a minimum-wage package, it would avoid taking the issue to the ballot. One union-backed initiative has already qualified for the ballot, and a second, competing measure is also trying to qualify.
"This is an issue I've been working on for many years," Leno said. "The governor and stakeholders have all been negotiating earnestly and in good faith for some time."
Leno did not confirm specifics of the agreement, but most proposals have the wage increasing about a dollar per year until it reaches $15 per hour.
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"This is not a done deal," Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "Everyone's been operating in good faith and we hope to get it through the Legislature."
Leno said if an agreement is finalized, it would go before the Legislature as part of his minimum-wage bill that stalled last year.
If the Legislature approves a minimum-wage package, it would avoid taking the issue to the ballot. One union-backed initiative has already qualified for the ballot, and a second, competing measure is also trying to qualify.
"This is an issue I've been working on for many years," Leno said. "The governor and stakeholders have all been negotiating earnestly and in good faith for some time."
Leno did not confirm specifics of the agreement, but most proposals have the wage increasing about a dollar per year until it reaches $15 per hour.
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