The Fosters Freeze team in Lemoore, California, felt "shock" as they learned of the restaurant's last-minute closure on Monday, following the state's newly enacted $20 minimum wage law.
While that sucks in the moment, ultimately the restaurants will have to hire more staff at the higher pay rate, or ultimately close because they can’t handle the idea of exploiting their workers slightly less.
Either fast food companies will end up paying the higher wage, or they will end up going out of business. I don’t really care which, because fast food is a luxury. It sucks those people won’t have jobs in the short term, but in the long term they won’t be exploited as much by their next employer.
If they were “living fine” at $16/hr they wouldn’t need the state to mandate a pay raise. I challenge you to live in California on $16/hr and make it. $20 isn’t even enough, but it’s a move in the right direction.
You’re talking about the Davis-Bacon act, not the federal minimum wage law. That doesn’t negate the importance of setting a minimum wage (and ideally keeping it consistent with the rate of inflation/deflation to preserve the spending power of the minimum wage)
They already pay them enough. 20 isn’t some Magic number. It’s a number the government made up with no logic.
Since inflation has lowered sales. It means fewer jobs for people who will have a hard time getting a job. Way to go California.
The employees said they were happy with their pay. They’d rather have 16 an hour than no job.
I’d bet they’d rather have a wage consistent with COL and better work/life balance than an arbitrary $16/hr.
Nobody likes being exploited for profit.
Exactly. It’s why the arbitrary 20 is stupid
20 is a compromise between what’s actually livable and what employers are willing to pay.
I agree it’s a stupid number, it should be higher and based off the cost of housing and rate of inflation.
Considering they were living just fine on 16, it’s hard to argue it wasn’t enough. Now they have zero.
While that sucks in the moment, ultimately the restaurants will have to hire more staff at the higher pay rate, or ultimately close because they can’t handle the idea of exploiting their workers slightly less.
Either fast food companies will end up paying the higher wage, or they will end up going out of business. I don’t really care which, because fast food is a luxury. It sucks those people won’t have jobs in the short term, but in the long term they won’t be exploited as much by their next employer.
If they were “living fine” at $16/hr they wouldn’t need the state to mandate a pay raise. I challenge you to live in California on $16/hr and make it. $20 isn’t even enough, but it’s a move in the right direction.
They didn’t ask the state to mandate it.
All this does is cause a loss of jobs.
Minimum wage was meant to deny blacks employment. It’s why the democrats love minimum wage discussions
You’re talking about the Davis-Bacon act, not the federal minimum wage law. That doesn’t negate the importance of setting a minimum wage (and ideally keeping it consistent with the rate of inflation/deflation to preserve the spending power of the minimum wage)
Negate it. It’s kept black people down for years.