Fast-food lobbyists say the higher California minimum wage law led to a loss of nearly 10,000 jobs. The claim is baseless.
  • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    If your business cannot survive paying living wages then your business does not deserve to survive.

    Your business is not more important than the employees, despite whatever they try to say.

    • Delusional@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      They can survive by paying living wages. They just don’t want to. How would they rake in all that money if they had to spend a little bit extra? Preposterous!

      The businesses don’t care about employee’s lives in the slightest so why should the employees care about the business?

      My employer promised a raise after 3 months. It took them over a year and a half for them to finally give me a small raise and it’s still below a living wage. They think I’m actually gonna care about my job and do it right when they fucked me over like that? I mean sure it’s my fault for sticking around at a shitty company but this situation shouldn’t be allowed to happen in the first place. They cost me thousands of dollars that I should have been making. I don’t care if I cost them thousands as well.

      Also my coworker who gets paid way more than I do does less than a 1/5th of the work that I do but they won’t get rid of him.

  • Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I live in a state on the lower-wage side of states in the country.

    Fast food places here are advertising $22+ an hour to try to attract talent. Corporations are such fucking liars.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      Now the question is if they actually pay that or if they interview and say “Well, depending on experience so we’ll start you off at $10 and see how it goes.” Lol

      • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        They try but it’s hard when target is paying 15 for stockers. My work tries to pay state minimum of $12 in several departments and the average tenure is measured in one or two pay periods at most, most don’t even stay til sign on bonus payout because they find something paying $4+ more per hour. HR argues that target, McDonald’s, and Starbucks can’t possibly hire everyone so we’ll take what’s left of the crop for our staff