Restaurants eliminating employees after minimum wage increase in 18 states
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- Опубликовано: 9 янв 2018
- Apple-Metro CEO Zane Tankel reacts to reports that restaurant chains are firing, or replacing, employees after the minimum wage increased in 18 states last week.
I'm with Stuart. The day the workers start making 15 dollars an hour, is the day I stop tipping.
Everybody with half a brain said this was going to happen.
John Carpenter exactly they shouldn't be surprised
Though thinking about it now, I think this was intentional and state governments knew this would happen, putting more people on welfare and becoming dependent on the government.
When you keep implementing trickle down economics but try to throw a progressive screw in there, it kind of breaks the system. The stock market is now crashing cuz people are actually making a tiny bit more money. If you put enough money in people's pockets, then they can actually buy things and stimulate the economy. Amazing concept, isn't it?
silly socialists..... its so funny to hear you think out loud you liberal fucks...... obvious the social studies they spread in colleges today is liberally biased to the common worker and not to the people who actually OWN the businesses that hire the employees and pay the wages for STARTING LEVEL EMPLOYEES....so fucking adults take high school jobs.....and expect adult wages......and most are probably illegal aliens..... working at in n out, flippin burgers
_Everybody with half a brain said this was going to happen._
Really? There are actually people living with only half of a brain?
With "Robots", you don't get bad attitude or bad service and lip service...
Inquire98 You go to all these sites with your sick ideas. I hope you enjoy robot service!
Elizabeth Kelley So what you are trying to say is, "everybody that feels like I do, is sick too". Is that what you're trying to say? Let me know. I look forward to hearing from you 😎
Inquire98 So are you saying I said you are sick and everyone who feels like you is sick too? I don't get your point because your writing and thinking is equally convoluted. I did say your ideas are sick because you try to justify your lack of empathy with law.We are not governed by law alone but also by common decency and the Golden rule. This may not mean much to you or the business owners who like to have scores of minimum wage employees to operate their businesses,paying them a trifle salary while also deducting a percentage of their tips to pay other employees. It has grown increasingly difficult to regulate a system which is unregulated by nature. No one knows how much in tips they will earn or how much in tips they will pay out.Certainly if tipping is done away with by law,many aspects of food service will change and minimum wage will not encourage better,or more personal service. Food service cannot be compared to other jobs which receive a decent paycheck because it is personal and transitory,fluctuating and unstable. Waitstaff are at the mercy of their guests,who sit at their allotted tables and take time and space for what the waiter hopes and prays will be equitable recompense. To deny them a gratuity is to effect,laugh in their faces. If this makes you feel righteous,I refer you to the Golden Rule,Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You.
Not if I program it 😂
You also create new jobs. People to fix and service the Robots, those skilled labor jobs will pay pretty well. Welcome to Reality.
The people who voted for this will be the first to complain when the prices at their favorite restaurants go way up.
They raise prices, drive away customers, then have to layoff workers or shut down. Its lose-lose
@@michaellundgren6949 duh, socialism is only win for government
OR they lose their jobs!!! more likely.
Restaurant jobs Like making Burgers,french fries,milkshakes,chicken sandwiches and pizza were never meant to sustain a living! It was for high school kids in college kids for beer money and help out that’s it! To Teach you a Work ethic while in school!!!
In 2018... Automation is killing jobs stop living in 1974.....cuz if the majority of young people had a choice to work at 5 to 9 factory jobs and still afford a house, they would.... But thanks to corporations and the government those jobs don't exist anymore
I disagree with your comment, but thank God for freedom of speech, first amendment. I've seen in fast food restaurants people in their 30's and 40's and their 50's working there, some that I've spoken to even have two jobs just trying to get by. Everything keeps on going up except the wages, do your research and you'll find out that I'm right.
I believe the Thanos Effect should happen in our world, he was right in what he did.....even if captain America or Natasha disagreed.
If your only qualification is restaurant work, then demanding an increase from an employer because of that is ludicrous. Why should an employer pay a person more than their job is worth because the employee failed to prepare for life.
I have granddaughters in college working part-time in restaurants who see that first hand: people in their 40's and 50's who have no training, no work experience other than restaurant work. One granddaughter said it is great motivation to do well in college.
One of my sons managed a restaurant and constantly complained about drug problems and absentee issues. He went back to school and is now a software engineer. He believes that many lack the drive to do anything more.
So your saying that are kids need to work to make millionaires to dictate how we live today?????
This 15 dollars an hour is killing the restaurant and fast food businesses and keeping customers away and it's back firing on employees as they lose their job's. Democrats past this bill without thinking of the consequences.
They know exactly what they are doing
I can understand trying to keep it around $8-10 an hour but $15? They're INSANE.
They knew, everybody knew, except the millennial crybabies. Now they can cry for food stamps and welfare.
That's exactly what they want too. Young people to rely on government handouts means more votes for them.
Edmond Casasa Democrats never think about there consequences or anything else for that matter.
Understanding basic finances broke me from leftism. The numbers just do not work.
Then when you realize that you start to realize a lot of leftist propaganda is nonsense
I love how McDonald's has put kiosks in to replace the marchers, now when I order a coffee with cream and no sugar I actually get what I ordered.
Exactly! And they can program the kiosk to talk to you respectfully unlike some of these people they hire.
This is so NOT true, a human still needs to read and make the order correctly
@Angel S for now. Robots already exist for the grill
Make sure to thank democrat/liberals!
Vaughn reed jr - Go to Your safe place and chew some crayons......
Vaughn reed jr - Lol- Born and raised 100% American Patriot
Gary Pollan make sure you think the Republicans and the Democrats
Damn commies
True capitalism..... freedom to not patronize scrooge-like restaurants. No employees, no customers sounds fair. True, Mr. Scrooge, you don't owe anybody anything, but they don't owe you either. Children who don't share their toys a little bit should have to play alone.
I purchased an existing family resturant that had been in business at the same location for 15 years. And not only kept the 10 employee's, five of which were full time consisting of 40 and sometimes more, and five were part time which worked 20 to 30 hours per week. Having worked in the industry for 10 years prior to my purchase, gave them all an 8 percent raise to off set the mandatory 8 percent the IRS automatically adds to service industry gross wages. EVERY ONE WAS HAPPY.
Like any and all business's, my resturant had a fixed square footage available for usage. And a certain percentage of it was taken up by two restrooms, one for males, one for females. However, five years into my endevor, the law changed and I was required to install another restroom for those that couldn't based on their feelings, deceide if they were male or female. Thus I was forced to either give up valuable square footage for dining purpose by converting the two into one restrooms into what was referred to as a unisex, with a locking door. Thus anyone regardless of their feeling or actual gender could use it. OR, eliminating them entirely. I chose the later, which gave me additional square footage to add three more dining table and in the process hire an additonal employee, and making one of the part time, full time. EVERY ONE WAS HAPPY.
Jumping ahead 5 additonal years, Obama's administration mandated I pay additional mandatory health bennifits. Thus I was forced to force everyone into a maximum of a part time status by cutting there hours to no more than 35. Not having to pay the additonal mandated insurance and cutting their hours to 35, allowed me to increase their wages. Thus one made the same in 35 as they use to in 40. EVERY ONE WAS HAPPY, especilally the ones whom were part time to begin with. Now I'm being mandated into incrasing their pay almost 25 percent to keep legal. My square footage is still fixed, I've increased the number of employee's, and though decrease the number of hours, increased thier pay so they experience an actual gain not a loss. This new system, has caused me to either raise prices or cut back on the number of employee's. It's unfortunate, but I was forced to do the latter. I cut the one I had hired when eliminating the restrooms. And now I'm back to my original 10. Yes the cut employee isn't happy, but the other 10 are estactic. And though they fell sorry for their previous fellow worker. They have their own concerns. And when push comes to shove, EVERY ONE IS HAPPY. Tis ironic, that one cannot see the forest because of all the dam trees in the way.
On a good note, I've managed to make enough money to purchase the adjacent building which will double my square footage. And the first person I'll hire is the one I was forced to let go. Had I raised my prices rather than let an employee go, I'd could have not be as competited with the other resturants. Thus not be in the position to expand and hire additonal employee's.
I learned at a very earily age that it ok to want something but one must be careful of what it is they want, because sometimes they will actualy get it. Hence all those demanding an assinine increase in the minimim wage, have gotten what they wanted, and now have to pay the consequences.
I bloody knew this would happen... You don't make a living off of entry level positions. These minimum wage jobs help you develop a skill
The real program is the shortage of SKILLED labor. Most people now days do not have a marketable skill.
@Pyar Squared The main reason for the shortage of skilled labor is few people now days want to even try to learn a skill. And the people coming into the US unskilled are most often not given a chance to learn a skill even if they want to. The whole thing is messed up.
@Pyar Squared Like $15 an hour flipping burgers.
@Pyar Squared News Flash. They underpay skilled workers, too! My profession requires a license, certification and a degree is preferred and they STILL don't want to pay a decent wage or benefits. Been looking for a year and it's been tough..............
With the $15 rate, my attitude is the tip is now built into the price of the “experience “.
That is hilarious... I could only imagine what you would say about your own job trimming your pay down to $15 an hour...
get rid of the illegials first
William Straughan learn to spell first, then maybe you’ll make more than minimum wage.
Sergio Sergio Hahahaha oh man
Want to pay 5 dollars for a tomato?
OkamsRazer WTF are you talking about? 60 percent of illegals cross the border illegally. Do you even know what "most" means?
OkamRazer Again, where do you get your facts from? Mexico has more illegals than every other country in the world combined. Theres a reason why they are the main focus. Do some actual research, dumbass.
Another successful day for the democrats-More lost jobs=More government dependents.
Any time a gov't. mandates to a private business that they must pay their workers a set wage , or , must hire a % of workers based on race or gender , it is called fascism. If you approve of such mandates , laws , you are a fascist . No argument , no ifs , no but's , you are a fascist .
Wiping tables and frying hamburgers was never supposed to be a career choice. People with no ambition cannot force their income to higher than their skill level. It won't work, they will just be without jobs, and on welfare, which is probably their goal anyway.
Robots don't screw up orders, call in sick, spit in your food, and don't whine about working! Great idea
What if it got a virus?
robots dont pay into pensions num nuts
@charles hedberg Damn you had me laughing with those first couple sentences. Good stuff.
They do. Lol
Pay them a decent wage you cheap Fuck
I think leftists sometimes need to study some basic economics.
Kenton -- Why?? A wasted effort. No liberal is intelligent enough to study. Case in point; Even those who teach were given their participation college degree and certificates. [the following said with tongue-in-cheek] See. Now, don't we feel foolish?
I failed basic Economy because I was liberal at the time!
Anyone that studies basic economics knows that no wage increase has EVER been tied to job unemployment; 16/22 wage increases in history have been tied to INCREASES.
Try again.
@ the sparkle.Not at 100% more. Dunce....Business owners( which you are not one) are in the business to make money, not to make friends. People work hard to create savings, people take birth control, people realize that others will not pay their way. People, make the world what it is. You can be born on welfare and then you can become a millionaire or billionaire. Nothing can stop you. BUT, YOU have to put in the WORK effort to make it so. Once you get that into your head, nothing can stop you.......
"Not at 100% more."
If you had stopped there I would have agreed quite enthusiastically.
'Dunce'
No need to call names, friend.
'Business owners( which you are not one)'
I most certainly am.
'business to make money, not to make friends.'
Wrong on both counts.
Webster's dictionary defines a friend as one that favours or promotes something; an employee favours his company with loyalty, a customer favours it with business, and an owner favours them with quality and protection. Business is the art of human relationships, 'Friendship'.
Any extra money made was lost by inflation and hikes in rental costs.
Along with higher media costs and higher electric bills, higher medical insurance premiums.
The local government will get more taxes from your increased pay.
Personally at $15/hour and the price of food at the restaurant going up, i am no longer tipping my waiter/waitress.
Wow, did anyone (other than the entire Republican party) think this would happen?!? Who could have imagined (other than any economist) could have imagined such a thing would happen?
Wasnt Trump and republicans just opening a bottle of champaign because of the tax bill and corporations announcing bonuses and raises? Can anyone tell me how this is happening at the same time while blaming it on Obama who hasent been president for a while now?
John Belt too obvious Is it the amount of dollars? or the puchusing power of the dollar? amount of dollars business externalise expenses. If its inflation you have to go after the banks who all operate on fraud(fractional reserve) which causes inflation :-)
not very bright are you brian? Minimum wage jobs are supposed be filled by teenagers and students, on their way to further success. You aren't supposed to be able to support a family on them, you're supposed to have enough to barely take care of yourself. Low minimum wage puts pressure on people to improve themselves to make more of themselves, and leave that job to the next teen who needs gas money for the weekend.
Boo Boo nice job on blindly repeating what the media told you GJ
Nathan Blades yes. They should be getting skills to move up. You should strive to settle to the bottom. If you want to be a bottom feeder then don't complain when all you get is garbage in your life.
We have to many restaurants and they are not worth the money you pay for a good meal. Maybe it will bring back moms and pops with pride and great food.
Cheryl Swenson, YOU'RE 100% CORRECT. TOO MANY BUSINESS OWNERS, BUT NOT ENOUGH LEGAL IMMIGRANT WORKERS. THOSE BUSINESS OWNERS NEED TO RAISE THEIR MENU PRICES, RAISE WAGES, AND ONLY HIRE LEGAL AMERICAN WORKERS. HOW'S MY IDEA? CALIFORNIA IS THE WORST. THAT'S WHY THE LIBERALS ALLOW ILLEGALS TO ENTER OUR COUNTRY FOR THEIR VOTES.
Worker co-ops would do wonders. No one votes against their own job.
LOL.. Littles towns died 2 decades ago... you think they can all of a sudden make a profit again?
Cheryl Swenson ,
I only eat at small mom and pop diners. Usually only one to two waitresses. Who seem better mannered than chain restaurants servers.
I usually tip five to seven bucks per meal.
Mom and pops can't pay 15 an hour either. What is this ?
what did you expect? force employers to pay more for less. they have to fire/layoff some to keep there doors open. simple economics.
If you thought service was bad before, wait til you see it after
Fast food is meant for HS/college job or as an additional part time job to earn extra cash NOT to support a family on. 🤦♂️
Let that settle in. the State requires that a busboy get $15/hour + tips.
Wanda, Roofers get $34k/yr and only work about 7 months. It's hard work but not 'hard labor".
Wanda Roderick - doesn’t work that way. When you lift the lowest wages, it pushes up everyone’s. The roofer gets a raise as well, because well... who would be a roofer when they could work at McDs for the same wage. The roofing company has to be competitive. And before you say it just causes inflation, I’ll head you off at the pass. There isn’t a direct 1:1 correlation between increasing wages and increasing overall cost of goods and services as labor is only a portion of overall cost. This means that the buying power of everyone who receives an in-kind raise has their buying power increased.
Wanda Roderick - here’s what happens when you raise wages for the lowest people: ruclips.net/video/UAcBYA9ZwVQ/видео.html
My son did roofing for a couple of years. All year long. Him and his coworkers pay never exceeded $12-$13hr. Not sure where your figures come from. And it is certainly a hard job.
Brian A Davis as they should
As they say, the true minimum wage is ZERO.
What a big mistake people lost their jobs now they get unemployment Since they don’t have a paycheck now the government don’t get no money from the paychecks taxes
If the minimum wage is forced to be $15/hr, employers are going to fire anyone not WORTH $15/hr.
To all the millennial employees WELCOME TO REALITY!!!!! BUSINESSES HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU!!! THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY $15 BUCKS AN HOUR IF THEY CAN HELP IT, THEY CAN AND THEY WILL!!! AGAIN WELCOME TO REALITY YOU DID IT TO YOURSELVES!!!!!!!
May be true, but don't act like anybody is going to win this. The businesses WILL suffer.
You're caps locking but no one cares.
lisa smith we do have empathy for the poor, raising minimum wage is not helping them it is just screwing them with inflation causing their dollars to be worth less, adding inflation the retired people, and cutting jobs. Explain to me how getting people fired is having empathy?
@@stevebrawner9119 Why can't big corporate raking in billions pay their working class a few dollars more? Explain how you get out of a rut if you are just barely making enough to keep yourself from falling deeper in the rut you are already in? No one is asking for inflation. We are asking for Corporate To Pay. Rent to go down, a way to live without welfare ya duck.
@Pocahontas Warren So what do you propose? I hear no solution in your argument. One of two things must happen if we are going to survive. Prices for Everything need to drop, including housing, or businesses need to pay up. No exceptions. Stop making excuses.
Only ignorance would have someone steal money from the owners who shoulder all the risk of running a private Enterprise. If someone wants to pay a higher wage as a choice but don't force that and steal that from others!
Maurice Graham
By not paying a livable wage, isn't that stealing from their employee? If the employee had to be subsidized by the government, isn't that stealing from the taxpayer?
Maurice Graham Too bad you don't know wtf you're talking about!
I run two companies and support the jobs of over 12 people. How many jobs do you help create and support?
Another thing wages are operating in the free market which means the employee voluntarily agreed to that wage for the job. So if the employer wanted to attract the talent that was needed to complete the job they would either need to raise their wages if the talent pool wasn't available or lower it if there was an oversupply of talent. That is the law of supply and demand. It is a fault of our own government for stealing from those who have to give to those who don't.
Maurice Graham Perhaps if you could state your case a little more intelligently and make your point without harebrained accusations of theft and ignorance, I would be more inclined to make sense of what you say.
Raise the minimum wage..... just bring in automation..... Robots don't get sick, call out, catch an attitude or anything else... They're at work all the time.
Employee: "YAY I GOT MINIMUM WAGE INCREASE"
Boss: "Meet your replacement"
*Brings in Automation*
Employee: "WHY DON"T I HAVE MY JOB ANYMORE!?!?!?!?!"
enjoy your 15 dollars an hr job that you no longer have ^_-
Suprise suprise..
Cut the CEO's salary instead.....
Paying CEOS for being in charge of huge corporation large sums and benefits is how they attract better CEOS and motivate current ones to earn higher profits for their organization. If you cut their salary, they will just leave.
tree fiddy but a raise for someone that doesn't needed is more legit? Mind you they just push paper thats it.
Star Surfer A CEO is in charge of making major corporate decisions, act as the top-manager, and allocate the the company's resources to current and planned operations. It's not an easy job. You can't just give them a shit salary relative to their level of responsibility.
Its the shareholders not the CEOs
Patty Cake thinks that CEOs swim around in pools full of gold coins all day; she been watchin' too much TV.
the good thing about robots is you don't have to worry about some disgruntled employee spitting in your food.
cant wait till the restraunts go to all robots , even the cashiers , can you imagine the amount of robberies thats coming LOL
It’ll all be cashless
@@wlonsdale1 oh i dont mean just for money , youll have people go in steal food in the back or take whatever they can
for every action there is a equal and opposite reaction - this is the key point that minimum wage protesters overlooked. they made very uniformed decisions and it never occurred to them that the owners would push back hard.
Sorry but these jobs are for young kids or retired people who just need a little pocket money. My first job was at K-Mart and I made $3.30 per hour and it paid for my gas and anything else I needed while I lived with my parents. After that, I worked my way up in the world where I now make a good living even here in California where it is pretty expensive to live. That is how it is supposed to work. These are not career jobs unless you go into food service management.
In 1974 Kmart paid me 90 cents an hour.
ALL done under the guise of helping the working man, yet how is losing their jobs helping?
That was a most blatant admission of where the tax cut savings is going. "Yes, we've already given some raises...at the executive level."
We've already raised wages.... at the executive team level. lol...
I never liked Applebees.
apple bees was all frozen fake food
Wilted Brainz The food reminds me of the Costco frozen food isles that they microwave.
makes me handicapped on a toilet for a day when i eat there.
likewise, its too expensive plus the tip
I agree. TGIfridays, Red Robin they're all the same garbage.
"Hospitality" is also at an all time LOW!
There is nothing wrong with cleaning offices and bathrooms for a living. But why do you need a UNION to clean a toilet or empty a trash can? You don't, it's a shake down. The companies pay the UNIONS to keep employees in line and costs down.
Raises .. at our executive team level ... lol
Yeah that was pretty cringeworthy. The executives didn't do any work to get the tax break so why should they enjoy the benefit? I understand that spreading the cut over thousands of employees see less of an impact compared to a few hundred execs but it would be a tremendous symbol to do so. People forget that capitalism was much more raw and unregulated at the turn of the 20th century and we almost lost it to communism. I don't agree with a lot of mandated socialism but I'm 100% for giving workers extra if extra is available.
Chris Wilson Well, those execs probably successfully introduced automation or do something that saves the company millions of dollar. I don't think the owner is that stupid to give any of his employees (including his executives) a raise for nothing.
Immanuel Herman No, those execs did nothing different. The tax cuts were always going to go to the executives. They were never going to go towards creating more jobs or paying the employees more. That's not how it works. It has never worked that way. Employers only employ as many people as they need, and they pay them as little as they can to keep them.
BigEarsAreCute James Allen Look, I have my own small business, and I certainly will never give any of my employees bonus if they don't make me more money that warrant me to do such action. No stakeholders want to share their profit to execs who don't perform.
Ofc, there are some exceptions, like tax evasion, where you can make arrangement to temporarily store/park company money on your employees account and write it off as 'bonus'.
It can save you quite amount of profit from tax.
But it's not really a bonus, and execs are usually not stupid enough to agree on this because they may have to report this as their asset (which may increase their own tax) and may have to explain how they got it, and why it's suddenly gone now.
Chris Wilson
Executives....Don't do any work?
That is something I have not ever seen... Except in movies...
In reality, it is actually the reverse. Executives tend to handle most of the responsibility.. And far more invested in the welfare of the company that ordinary workers..
Low skill jobs have been designed to do a few things over and over and that worker can be replaced almost immediately with the new unskilled worker taught the repetitious steps. Watch the burger fixer and ask how long it would take to learn those movements or how could you design a robot to do them.
Increase minimum wage: replace those workers with robots
Cut tax: give those executive an increase.
Wow
If employees are still asking for that 20% after the wage increase then we can clearly see a sign of greediness
I am not "tipping" someone for delivering my food, that they did not cook 😋
Tipping says more about you than the person you're not tipping. If you can't afford to tip someone, you can't afford to eat that food.
Good. Servants should make enough money that we don't need to tip them. I'm tired of subsidizing businesses that don't pay their workers.
The Sparkle Zone I agree. I am NOT going to "tip" someone for delivering a hamburger, they didn't fix...
Zach Simpson I disagree STRONGLY...
People who are working for restaurants, choose to do, or not to work for a company, that doesn't pay them enough. It's not my responsibility to make up for another company shortness. WHY are you fighting so venomous for city garage collectors, postal people that deliver mail, school teachers, who teach our kids or has to be patient with someone's "brat". Try not, to tell people how to spend or use their money, when you are running short...
*Ok why did we have to raise it so high??? Why couldn't we start at $9.25, or maybe a tiny bit lower??? It's like we either have too starve the masses or over compensate them.*
Or start them at $10, and give them automatic COLAs every year like the federal employees get.
Natasel Wrong Question, Why not get rid of the Federal Reserve instead?
Natasel Why should a government take a loan from a private entity? What happens if the Government can't pay back the federal Reserve?
It was calculated that 15 is a livable wage, at the current point in time compared with yesterdays prices on food, gas, rent, etc.
$15 was a vote buying gimmick with little concern for the consequences. Lose your job, vote for us and we’ll give money to you.
One fact that is never mentioned is that tipped employees do not get the minimum wage that is talked about.
WalMart also did this. They implemented a nationwide minimum wage increase of $1.50 to $2.00 an hour but they furloughed THOUSANDS of people and not only did they cut off people, they cut off hours of the ones who are still working there.
What's the point of the increased wage if the hours are less? Workers are still making the same amount of money.
Since when are restaurant employees entitled to higher wages? These jobs use to for younger folks, but now you are entitled to house with a picket fence for flipping burgers.
You might want to go outside and look at the economy these days. There are few high paying jobs now.
theuglykwan there are plenty of high paying jobs. The only problem is there is that dreaded 4 letter word involved-work
Go to these restaurants now. Look at the age's of folks. It used to be "young"...now I see freaking 80 year old's flipping burgers. Why? Mainly...living costs. They don't need to raise the wages...they need to lower the pricing. Alas, the USA's fanatical devotion to the corporate/consumer 'free market' will never see anything that fixes this.
You hear these business owners bitching about how they now have to 'fire folks and turn to robots'. Really? Care to put your money where your mouth is and show/release your profits for the last 5 years? No? Huh...I wonder why. Ohhh...riiightttt... because if you did that then everyone would see that, yes, you *could* afford to keep everyone and pay them $15/hr...but then your profits drop down to just 1 new house and 1 new lambo per year (not the 3 new houses and 4 new lambo's).
I'm not saying people who work to increase their businesses shouldn't get what they deserve. I'm saying that maybe there needs to be an incentive to pay their workers more. Say...a nice tax break that they can claim if they are paying their part time workers X amount per hour and their full time workers Y amount per hour...contrasted with how much they are paying their CEO's/bosses (e.g., the more a CEO/Boss gets, the less they can write off).
Something like that. There's GOT to be a better way than drastically increasing the minimum wage and firing people!
Oh, there's actually quite a few decent paying jobs. coal mining, truck drivers, IT specialists...
Actually the free market does do this. The reason it isn't right now is it is over-regulated, making competition difficult. Cause that's how prices lower and wages raise naturally, because you're competing with other businesses. Because there's a LOT of unnecessary regulations in business competition isn't cropping up. Therefore those things aren't improving. A lot of problems in America would be fixed if we deregulated a bit.
HEE HEE KEEP THIS INSANITY UP KIDS AND YOU CAN LIVE WITH MOM AND DAD FOR EVER
Nobody complained when a $39,000 dishwashing machine replaced the dishwasher not when you could buy your own dishwasher, clothes washer, microwave, etc.
I didn't make 15 an hour working construction for the first 4 years! You want 15 an hour to work inside an air condition building, flipping hamburgers???? WTF!!!
Thanks Obama policies. That's why you dont mess with cost of living. Cause everything just went up.
iga ninja - cost of living goes up every year. You know what hasn’t gone up since 2009? Federal Minimum wage.
Chris Broughton I don't know where you live. But if your cost of living is going up every year it's the state you live in thats constantly raising your state taxes. And just imagine if that federal goes up. Say hello to Hawaii prices.
Actually there going up by trumps tarriffs
iga ninja
Are all dumb a racist or all racist are dumb?
OBAMA WAS AND STILL IS A BRAINLESS ASS
raising min. just killed ur job! how u like it now!.....lol
Shut Up Do You Live On Less Then 10.00 an hour & Pay 700.00 or 800.00 rent or have couple of kids? NO So Be Quite Cheap Illegals working here have been messing it up for a long time*
Crazy to think somebody serving food or flipping burgers will make $15 and hour.
For these economic illiterates, these wage increases are encouraging owners to automate and do away with entry level jobs.
Lol servers can kiss their tips good-bye
I’m going to be rich when minimum wage is $15 per hours! 😃😅😂😂😂😂😂
Minimum wage: Goes up.
Jack in the Box: Robots.
I don't get it. My daughter was a waitress here in NJ who made $2.15 an hour plus tips. What the heck are they talking about with waiters and waitresses?
Varney is kind of guy who is millionaire but finding ways to not pay tips.
Hey DIPShit, conservatives actually tip better and give more to charity. FACT!!!
So?
“We’ve already given some raises out...” “you have?!?” “Unhuh, at our executive level.”
That’s what’s wrong. The executives and shareholders will reap almost all the benefits of this tax cut. He spelled it out for you there.
Chris Broughton
Only the garbage companies will follow that greedy path. The decent ones will reinvest into their employees & flourish.
Sergio Aguirre
lmao!
I own my own business. And YOU?
G.M.C.
For a business owner, you seem to have no idea on why businesses hire people.
THEY ARE PAYING FOR TIME
For example, small businesses are usually handled by the owner himself with help from his family...
As the business grows, you hire people to do certain jobs, saving the owner the TIME to do it himself and do something else...
And no, those "greedy" policies are followed by successful companies... Every single large company you can name follows this, without exemption..
Warren Peace
Your comment is useless. OF COURSE IF YOU HIRE SOMEONE YOU ARE PAYING FOR THEIR TIME.
I run my small business so that EVERYONE PROSPERS, not just me. Nobody EVER quits. So I must be doing something right! Ciao.
G.M.C.
You got it wrong....
You are paying for YOUR TIME...
You are paying to use your time and effort to do something else, You pay them to be free yourself...
You don't pay them because they need it, you pay them because YOU need it...
Because if you are paying for THEIR time, THEY decide how much their work is worth, not you...
If that is true, they would not have to use the government to browbeat people to accept their demands...
No, you started a business to make YOURSELF successful...
Their prosperity is just a consequence of your success...
It is very hard to believe, that you made all that effort in business just to increase your secretary's salart by a couple hundred bucks..
Starting a business, by its very nature, is an act of selfishness, otherwise, you give that service for free, or operate at zero profit and earn just enough to break even...
The minimum wage in Belgium is € 9.47. And we pay 52% taxes.
"We have already given out wage increases.... at the executive level" - way to help the working class
Greedy executives couldn't care LESS about their employees.
They never have. What's new?
STOP EATING THERE. Problem solved.
And thanks oBOMBa, for NOTHING.
Cook at home, sooner or latter these greedy chains will die off.....or change the way they do business
Sergio Aguirre
Your statement is laughable. Without the employees, THERE IS NO BUSINESS RUNNING.
Investors invest some money, employees invest their LIFE & TIME.
Big difference.
Companies that invest in their employees 1st, will reap the rewards that happy employees, (the ones that SERVE & make that business a success), create.
Sergio Aguirre
And you think this is a GOOD thing?
Let robots take over. Then watch an abundance of lower skilled people who would have done those jobs for a decent wage, and have been doing them for YEARS, go on public assistance because there are no jobs for them. That's brilliant Einstein!
Sergio Aguirre There are people who don't deserve $15 an hour. Thank you ✌️
G.M.C. I never met a happy employee at McDonald's
he gave exc team raises but he is against mim wage raises
He needs to be replaced by a computer , the day of High paid executives is old school
Stan M I don’t believe I’ve ever gotten a job from a poor person!
The exec team takes the job and its stresses home with them. The hourly worker can forget about the job as soon as they punch the time card out. There is a huge difference.
2 companies retired at 51 you?
Stan M
But even computers only function as to what technician programmed it to do...
Just like low-ranked workers only do what there managers tell then to do..
Someone always have to take charge, and that someone usually get a bigger share than most..
No work +no money - no customer = no business
The cold, hard truth is: If a business cannot make a profit, it will not survive.
This is terrible, people are getting paid more!!!!
for no skills--yes its really bad.
Thankful Friend, not All people, just the entitled Minimum Wage earner. Everyone else just gets to pay the tab.
create your own company
Thankfull Friend Actually, most people will now get paid nothing as entry-level and unskilled jobs disappear. They've cut the first few rungs off the economic ladder making it forever unreachable by people starting at the bottom. Expect large increases in unemployment and poverty levels. Established businesses will also suffer in the short term but then they will adapt, however certain jobs will disappear permanently as these businesses are forced to operate differently. Also be prepared to pay more for products and services that support those at the bottom. Also, startups will not be able to afford the labor they need. Less opportunity, less production, higher market prices.
Homecomfort yes because wanting enough money to survive is so entitled, you stupid piece of shit
I think higher wages is ok but 15$ is a joke. 12$ is acceptable.
Remember of course if that place has to pay the10 people on lunch shift $4 an hour more, that is $40 just that one and each hour of the day they have to raise their prices to be even again. Sell 40 Burgers that one hour? Raise price $1 each to be even. Sell 80? 50 cents each. If a place has 100 hours of labor for the whole day, they need $400 every day more in the register to break even. They gotta sell 400 burgers every single day. But the price went up a dollar and some people aren't buying burgers anymore because they are damn too high priced. Now the place is actually selling less burgers and doesn't need 10 on lunch shift anymore to cover business. They can get by with 8 that will work harder because, hey, they make $12 an hour now. Now 2 people make $0 an hour because they got let go. They wont be buying any burgers from anyone. Is that acceptable? Will the Asst Mgr on shift demand they get $4 more per hour like everybody else got? You would of course. Those 3 Asst Mgrs just cost the place $120 each more per week in payroll. Gotta sell lots more burgers or raise the price another dollar.
wiibaron if we went to a single payer system then no. Going to a single payer system means employers are not responsible for your health care so In return they can afford a pay increase without firing cutting hours or food cost increases.
Dumbass that's not how it works go talk to an economic major on this or do some research
k q which one is the dumbass
Spencerwalker21 the employees wanting the minimum wage raise
$15.00 an hour doesn't help much if your not working.
Notice the raises were given out at the executive level. Keep the hourly employees at a pay level that requires government assistance.
If servers don’t like it, then interview one. Pick a random server and interview them, see how they actually feel about it. Giving workers more expendable income means they have more to spend and sales increase.
Sorry....can't help myself. *moot* not mute.
Chris Broughton you obviously don't know basic economics. $15.00 per hour labor cost = cost past on to consumer = consumer pays more. Your pay check have increased but your standard of living goes down. Why you ask? Labor cost = past on to consumer = consumer pays more ie. you pay more for the same product/service you used to pay less for. BASIC economics
Chris Broughton
You miss the point entirely. The person who was going to 15 dollars an hour no longer has a job.
Great I'll never tip again. Awesome.
It also means all products they buy in the state or province have that increased wages have handed that added to their product prices.
20% wage increase = more income taxes taken = more sales taxes taken (cause products cost more)
It is a big fat tax grab & unemployment scheme.
So basically you get a huge tax break and instead of putting it back to help the people that didn't get the tax break you line the pockets of your highest paid employees....
b0red26 Yup....that 1.5 trillion is merely going to inflate the prices of villas on the Cote d'Azure, and auctions of Picassos...
b0red26
The decent companies will invest back into their employees. When you see the ones that DON'T stop supporting them. They'll reap their reward when their business is cut in half.
The amount anyone gets paid in ANY business should reflect their worth to the bottom line. If your job isn't worth 15 bucks an hour, then why should you be paid that much?
That might be an attitude which is valid in times of a labor demand.
For example, the industrial boom years following ww2.
In times like today, with automation, global trade, robotics, etc., there is a surplus of underemployed laborers.
This will result in exploitation.
Pretty soon, you'll see people "willing" to work for 3 bucks an hour, and live in tent cities (like 2009/2010) , because there are 20 other people ALSO willing to work for 3 bucks an hour.
Your idea that a undersupply of labor (for example by throwing out 11 million immigrants), will lead to higher wages is bull. The more employers have to pay, the more they will embrace automation, robot technology, or online business.
If you see a rapid decline of a "surplus" of labor, hourly wages will spike to 25, then 20, then 30 dollars an hour.
THAT is when companies will start laying off, and automating processes....
The average laborer will then have NOTHING, not even a 3 dollar per hour job.
What tax breaks
People just don't realize that increasing minimum wage does not create more jobs or get people out of poverty, it does the opposite. If employers are forced to pay staff more, then they got to ether cut hours, cut staff, rise prices of products, or just close the doors altogether.
Helping the young working men to become unemployed!
Instead of giving executives raises - should have kept the minimum wage employees and paid the livable wage!
If you took ALL the pay of the executives it would raise the rank and file employees wage a few pennies an hour. Why should an unskilled laborer get paid huge money? If I want more money I learn new job skills and get a new job. I started out as a bus boy and now I am a highly skilled and highly paid technician. If I can do it than anyone can.
John Belt Thank you!! I always wonder why these people who say to "lower executive wages" think that actually fixes the problem or is even the main issue on a massive scale. It's very shaky logic.
Honestly... how good does one have to be to get $15/hr to flip burgers or bus tables? Not very... and it's not worth $15/hr that's for sure.. welcome to market forces and the laws of economics.
You really that stupid???
John Belt Try saying that shit on facebook and getting banned
executive raises - wtf? no shame.. lmao! he doesn't even hide it. What about the guy who is actually producing the stuff? Where is his raise? You give raises to some jackass with a clipboard who doesn't do anything at all? All these executives and management guys should be summarily fired... in my corporate career I have hardly met any of them who add any value to a company... most of them are just fluff.
sbkpilot11 if you were an executive and you had your own company you would give you self a raise
1990758 No I wouldn't. I would give people a living wage. People are far too selfish these days.
Actually if they don't do anything at all why not turn their jobs to an automatic machine 😀😀😀😀
Being a barista at Starfucks really doesn't qualify as a "corporate career", Socialist.
I can hardly believe I ever supported minimum wage laws. The lack of common sense was strong in me.
been raising minimum wage my whole life and nothing has improved. definition of insanity? doing same thing over and over again with same result.
I don't tip for food delivery, if they charge for delivery. No point in buying the same service twice.
In Europe, where restaurant workers are paid such a high minimum wage, people don't tip!
I worked for AT&T several years ago and they were always looking for ways to reduce. They would declare surplus and then transfer employees or offer early retirement. They were always looking for ways to get more work out of us too.
I will never eat at a restaurant where I will be served by a robot.
Why do you think workers are protesting the increase?
Idk why people obsession with minimum wage just make it keep up with inflation and call it a day
How about make it zero and bring down the cost it’ll everything?
Time to rid state and local level power on setting a minimum wage.
Is anyone with two brain cells to rub together really surprised that this is the result?
If there should be no minimum wages, how about stopping all entertainment and meals at restaurants deductions for tax purposes.
Or, raise prices. You can’t give $15 an hour, and expect prices of everything to remain the same.
I was at a Subway a while ago with crusty bathrooms, not a single clean table, and the napkin/straw dispenser was completely drained. Restaurant is empty and what are the three employees doing??? Playing on their phones! They want $15 an hour for that nonsense? I'd go to a Subway and get served by robots any day. Replace those idiots.
How can these businesses lay off people when they can't find enough workers in the first place?
I stopped giving tips because these people are now “making a livable wage.”
Some people demand a rise in the minimum wage just so that they can pay the taxes and catch up with the high cost of living, but with such rise, employers would hire fewer people, manufacturing jobs would be sent to other countries and the prices of products and services would rise.
It's such a shame that many people, including politicians, lack comprehension on the economy.
Well, obviously. I never understood why the minimum wage was so drastically increased.
Boycott all these companies that fire or lay off and if no job no money means no business for your company.....cant take families out, if no work ,no pay = no business ....