Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
What happens if minimum wage goes up?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="JL 0513" data-source="post: 1763982" data-attributes="member: 50088"><p>Say if it does go to $15/hr, which it is already rolling in in some cities, what happens to all the people currently making $15, $16, $17,....and have been dedicated and worked hard to get to that point? That worker is sitting there looking at the new 18 year old come in and right away making $15 with no experience or skills. So say this worker has been with the company for 7 years and has earned raises all the way to $16/hr. This person is also doing a lot more than the entry level job is. Perhaps this person can now pursue a raise. But what kinda of raise do you really think is going to happen? The scaled equivalency to the new hire would be a doubling their pay, right? $32/hr? That can't be right though, right? How about the $7 raise the minimum's just got even though the percentage is much less? So $23/hr, right? Wow, sounds great. We all know that won't happen. No way this long time employee realistically gets more that a $2-$3 immediate bump. So in the end, the long time employee isn't making much more than the new slacker teenager. This all just makes perfect sense!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JL 0513, post: 1763982, member: 50088"] Say if it does go to $15/hr, which it is already rolling in in some cities, what happens to all the people currently making $15, $16, $17,....and have been dedicated and worked hard to get to that point? That worker is sitting there looking at the new 18 year old come in and right away making $15 with no experience or skills. So say this worker has been with the company for 7 years and has earned raises all the way to $16/hr. This person is also doing a lot more than the entry level job is. Perhaps this person can now pursue a raise. But what kinda of raise do you really think is going to happen? The scaled equivalency to the new hire would be a doubling their pay, right? $32/hr? That can't be right though, right? How about the $7 raise the minimum's just got even though the percentage is much less? So $23/hr, right? Wow, sounds great. We all know that won't happen. No way this long time employee realistically gets more that a $2-$3 immediate bump. So in the end, the long time employee isn't making much more than the new slacker teenager. This all just makes perfect sense! [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe UPS Forum
UPS Discussions
What happens if minimum wage goes up?
Top