Minimum Wage

[box_beeyotch]

There are states (CT?) that have programs which supplement your working wage with reduced unemployment compensation to bring you closer to your previous wages and save the state money.

For example, you are working in the high tech sector making $25/hr when your position is outsourced. Rather than sit at home and collect $600 or so a week in unemployment, you accept a job that only pays $15/hr. The state would then continue your unemployment at the reduced level of $400/week. ($10/hr*40) for a defined period of time (26-52 weeks). The state saves money and you get to maintain your previous standard of living.

But then what happens when those 52 weeks are up?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

But then what happens when those 52 weeks are up?

Hopefully they would have found another job in their primary career field by then.

 

[wkmac]

CEO sets a minimum wage of $70,000 for everyone in his company

 

[Catatonic]

CEO sets a minimum wage of $70,000 for everyone in his company

That's cool!
Hopefully it will catch on elsewhere.

 

[wkmac]

That's cool!
Hopefully it will catch on elsewhere.

Yep and it's real "free market" too!

 

[Babagounj]

But then what happens when those 52 weeks are up?

You apply for SSI .

 

[wkmac]

Interesting point.



If you just locked minimum wage to the annual inflation rate, using the 1964' figure of $1.25 per hour, the minimum wage in 2015 would be $9.54.

 

[Babagounj]

In California restaurants tipping is no longer allowed . A surcharge is automatically added to your bill with half going to the establishment to pay the new min. wage requirement and the other half into your servers pocket .

 

[baklava]

In California restaurants tipping is no longer allowed . A surcharge is automatically added to your bill with half going to the establishment to pay the new min. wage requirement and the other half into your servers pocket .

Bull

 

[upschuck]

In California restaurants tipping is no longer allowed . A surcharge is automatically added to your bill with half going to the establishment to pay the new min. wage requirement and the other half into your servers pocket .

How much is the surcharge? I can't find anything about it on web. I am traveling through CA later this month.

 

[baklava]

How much is the surcharge? I can't find anything about it on web. I am traveling through CA later this month.

It's a lie. I live in California.

 

[upschuck]

It's a lie. I live in California.

Just trying to see what he came up with, but that is what I figured.

 

[wkmac]

Slow down everyone because it is true that 5 Bay Area restaurants (not California restaurants) have done away with tipping and gone to the surcharge model. But it's not directly because of minimum wage law effects but rather as a preemption anticipating such law coming into play. Seems to me a creative idea in that most people already likely tip at about the level of the surcharge anyway so they created a business model that re-arranges the deckchairs with the least amount of economic impact to its broader customer base. I like that kind of creative and experimentive thinking.

5 Bay Area restaurants taking tips off table, adding surcharge

 

[upschuck]

Slow down everyone because it is true that 5 Bay Area restaurants (not California restaurants) have done away with tipping and gone to the surcharge model. But it's not directly because of minimum wage law effects but rather as a preemption anticipating such law coming into play. Seems to me a creative idea in that most people already likely tip at about the level of the surcharge anyway so they created a business model that re-arranges the deckchairs with the least amount of economic impact to its broader customer base. I like that kind of creative and experimentive thinking.

5 Bay Area restaurants taking tips off table, adding surcharge

You were casted https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgraphics8.nytimes.com%2Fimages%2F2012%2F03%2F30%2Fus%2FEels-1%2FEels-1-articleLarge-v2.jpg&friend=1
when this

would have been more accurate.

 

[moreluck]

How much is the surcharge? I can't find anything about it on web. I am traveling through CA later this month.

I just went to IHOP for breakfast and there wasn't any charge like that.

 

[wkmac]

You were casted https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgraphics8.nytimes.com%2Fimages%2F2012%2F03%2F30%2Fus%2FEels-1%2FEels-1-articleLarge-v2.jpg&friend=1
when this

would have been more accurate.

Bigger nets catch more fish!

 

[upschuck]

Bigger nets catch more fish!

But highly inaccurate.

 

[brownmonster]

I just went to IHOP for breakfast and there wasn't any charge like that.

2 for 1 senior special? Don't you hate that you have to purchase 2 beverages?

 

[moreluck]

2 for 1 senior special? Don't you hate that you have to purchase 2 beverages?

No, gift card from a cashier of a store that I frequent everyday.

I never get a beverage at a restaurant........that will really run your bill sky high. Water only!!! (pills to be taken too, need water)

 

[moreluck]