Located 422 results from search term 'wages'
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Commented in Car companies stand to make billions by charging you monthly fees for add-on features like heated seats
Everything else is going up in price, except wages, so why not gouge consumers a little more. Good grief!
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Commented in There was insider trading on NFT platform OpenSea, the $1.5 billion start-up admits
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Commented in 'Companies will do everything but pay you a living wage': McDonald's blasted for viral 'free iPhone' promise to applicants
Let's say the average franchise has 20-30 workers, We'll say 25, that is 8.3 workers per shift. Of those 25 I'm guessing 5-10 are part-time. So I'm going to go with 15 full and 10 part-time workers for this. Let's say the full time staff are making $10 or $400 a week. The part timers are making minimum wage, let's call it $7.50 or $150 a week. OK, so now let's go with the "living wage" of $15 an hour, that means the full time group is now making $600 a week and the part timers are making $300. We'll guess and say they need 5 full and 5 part time employees, you only get the iPhone if you stay for 6 months, which is about 26 weeks. With the living wage rate of 15 that equals out to $45,500 extra those employees would get... then since the ad doesn't say what phone, we'll go with the cheapest new iPhone the SE at 400, 400x10 is $4,000. So it's a no brainer from the business standpoint for the franchise to offer the iPhone over a higher wage. I will also point out Illinois already pays $10 as minimum wage for non-tipped people, meaning my math is off for where this is actually happening but doesn't change the fact that a business owner would rather buy iPhone's than pay more.
I'm not saying that higher wages aren't a necessity, I'm just pointing out that franchise operators aren't always in a position to offer more. After they buy the materials and ingredients from McDonald's or McD's mandatory partner. They then have to pay McDonald's part of their yearly intake, on top of that my understanding is that McDonald's owns most of the real estate and the Franchise owner has to pay that lease too. Then you have, electricity, water, payroll, taxes, trash, etc...
Here is what they pay to McD's, it's interesting:
Ongoing Fees
During the term of the franchise, you pay McDonald’s the following fees:
Service fee: a monthly fee based upon the restaurant’s sales performance (currently a service fee of 4.0% of monthly sales).
Rent: a monthly base rent or percentage rent that is a percentage of monthly sales.
Mashed says that the average store brings in 2.7mm a year, but after fees, payroll, the costs of buying the food, etc it works out to the average store profit of just $150k. The initial cost to open one is $1,000,000-$2,000,000. So it's going to take 10 years just to pay off the initial investment to open a McDonald's at the 150k profit margin. So the $15 living wage has the ability to absolutely destroy that profit, especially if McDonald's Living Wage raises prices and McDonald's iPhone down the street doesn't because most people will just go to the cheaper one.
It's a lot more complicated than just saying raise wages.
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Commented in Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay
When you hear about companies complaining that they cannot find workers, you should know that what they really mean is that they cannot find anyone to work for their shitty wages.
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Commented in The pros and cons of a $15 minimum wage
Are there seriously any downsides to paying a living wage? If the choice is between going out of business or keeping staff on starvation wages, maybe being in business isn't for you.
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Commented in Cord-cutting services are following cable TV's footsteps
Ten years later, my internet video streaming bills are closing in on cable TV-level bills. What happened?
Greed. No matter how many mountains of money they make,it's never enough. In two years Spectrum will be $99.00 a month. And this is just standard cable minus the bells and whistles...Soon enough,no one will be able to afford cable cause prices for everything goes up except consumers wages.
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Commented in Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
Good news for those working at Amazon or looking for jobs there. And if this creates a snowballing effect that makes other companies do the same, there will be happier employees, with higher wages who in turn will have more cash to consume.
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Commented in Everything Is Booming Except for Wages
One possible reason is that employers are growing increasingly powerful. Recent research by economists José Azar, Ioana Marinescu and Marshall Steinbaum has found that rising concentration in labor markets -- a decrease in the number of employers competing for workers -- has led to suppression of wages. Another new paper by Efraim Benmelech, Nittai Bergman and Hyunseob Kim reached the same conclusion.
Economic theory says that when there are only a few employers, the supply-and-demand model breaks down, and powerful companies start holding wages below what a competitive market would provide. This theory also predicts that minimum wage laws wouldn’t throw people out of work -- exactly what many researchers are now finding.
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Commented in Canadian province scraps 'basic income' experiment
The right wing doesn't need no stinking science. They know the answers. And especially questions where poor people get given stuff and aren't forced to work for low wages for rich people.
One question I'd like to see asked about this study: it's known that poor people spend most of the money they get and it goes into the local economy. How well did this stimulate the local economy?
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Commented in Forced Labor Is the Backbone of the World’s Electronics Industry
Forced labour is the backbone of our whole economic system.
I have asked economists before: is it possible to have a working, successful economic system that doesn't rely on cheap labour in other countries or in our own? I haven't received an answer yet.
Conservatives just want to bring that cheap forced labour home. Have a two tiered society. That's why they always want to lower wages of the lowest paid workers, lower benefits to the poor and raise the wages of the ruling classes and raise corporate welfare. /rant
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Commented in Big tech conferences overlook U.S. for Canada
Yet, because of assumptions implicit in the comment, it may easily be taken as political. One such assumption that leaps out at me is that employers in the tech industry, were it not for migrant workers, would be giving native-born citizens well-paying, rewarding jobs with benefits and total self-actualization. While there is no direct connection between a visa-carrying migrant worker and a corresponding native-born dunsel, scapegoating migrants for hard times is a basic human failing. Agreed, the so-called shortage of highly-educated, highly-productive native-born tech workers is a sham, and agreed, migrant worker visas are part of corporate grift, but even if they were all rounded up by la Migra and put into camps overnight, tech companies won't suddenly start offering living wages and fulfilling careers. They'll be blaming regional minorities in their international sweatshops to suppress their wages instead. Migrants are just one of the jokers in a Three Card Monte game you got ripped off in a long time back. Another assumption might be that software jobs are a birthright, but point well taken.
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Commented in Google commits $1 billion in grants to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs
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FTFY.
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Commented in Subway Refreshing Store Designs With Self-Order Kiosks That Support Apple Pay
I fundamentally disagree with you about a minimum wage. Subway will adopt automation as soon as they think it'll make them one thin dime more. This repackaged Subway press release can be seen as more of a threat to automate than the news that automation's arrived. This is a threat meant to keep wages suppressed.
Yes, they were always going to eventually adopt automation, I believe that it's happened faster than it would have because of the push for higher wages. Within a year of the push for 15, several restaurants have pushed announcements of this type of technology, even sit down places are in on it, Darden I think it is, is putting tablets at the table to order with.
There isn't one state in this country where having one full-time minimum wage job means you can rent an apartment with a bedroom. To me, that's a sign wages are too low. How many jobs should Americans have?
I'm not saying wages aren't horribly bad, I never said that; I believe we need annual COLA on wages to bring them in line with actual living, I'm just pointing out that a business isn't going to like this at all and thus introduce or threaten to introduce technology to not pay people any more.
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Commented in Subway Refreshing Store Designs With Self-Order Kiosks That Support Apple Pay
I fundamentally disagree with you about a minimum wage. Subway will adopt automation as soon as they think it'll make them one thin dime more. This repackaged Subway press release can be seen as more of a threat to automate than news that automation's arrived. This is a threat meant to keep wages suppressed.
There isn't one state in this country where having one full-time minimum wage job means you can rent an apartment with a bedroom. To me, that's a sign wages are too low. How many jobs should Americans have?
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Commented in Subway Refreshing Store Designs With Self-Order Kiosks That Support Apple Pay
I feel like just talking about wanting a $15 minimum wage and "living wages" has made this practice increase so much faster than it was before. This is the future of fast food, all those people working in these jobs that need these jobs are in trouble more than ever thanks to this.
On the other hand, thank the lord, I think I'm going to love these kiosks... until my order is still always wrong.
Then there is the business aspect, this means that a machine and the customer are going to be doing the work that they used to have to pay a worker to do, they've gotta be laughing to the bank on this because the price won't go down because they don't have to pay wages any more.
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Commented in Creationist blames dreadful attendance at Ark theme park on tax-starved city not supplying ‘tourist services’
FTA: According to a Patheos article published while the park was still under construction, employees are subject to a two percent “job assessment fee on gross wages.” That one first caught my, but the one about hiring is even better.
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Commented in Fear of Deportation Is Making Your Food More Expensive
If automation could replace those workers, it already would have.
Not only is that not true, but it clearly demonstrates that you have no understanding of even basic Economics.
Automation hasn't been widely implemented in the agricultural industry because it's not yet cost effective when compared to dirt-cheap illegal labor, it has nothing to do with the viability of the technology. It's the same situation that existed in the fast food industry. We've had the technology for nearly completely automated fast food restaurants since the early 1960s, but at the time it wasn't cost effective when compared to human labor so there was little development of the tech. Now that human labor is quickly reaching the point where it's becoming more expensive than automation, we're seeing waves of restaurants converting to automation technology. The same thing will happen in agriculture.
Historically migrant labor hadn't been criminalized, and has been allowed in more modern times under guest worker programs.
So your argument is: "It wasn't illegal until it was"? Historically it was also permissible for people to own other people as property and for everyone but white males to be considered three-fifths of a human. Times change. Societies grow and adapt, as do their needs. Since 1940 our population has nearly tripled, to the point where the United States is now the third most populous country on the planet. At the same time, our economy has become much less labor dependent than it used to be. We don't need to import more people.
Realistically, either you give up the notion that migrant labor is a criminal underclass in urgent need of incarceration in lucrative private prisons that in turn drive the pokitical fortunes of nativist bigots campaigning on herding up brown folks with a new, more malevolent kind of cowboy, or yes, ag businesses are failing and crops go to rot.
And right on cue here comes the race card. You're incapable of making a valid argument on the merits so it's time to go with the old "you hate brown folks" routine. It's as predictable as it is pathetic.
Myself, I would think words about a permanent underclass making pennies an hour would stock in your throat, because with your strict 'no illegals' policy and your principled opposition to minimum wage, aren't you just looking to substitute one poverty-stricken slave class for another?
Again, if you understood basic economics you'd already understand that that's a ridiculous question.
I'm against illegal immigration because they're supplying industry demand for labor without causing a subsequent increase in the cost of labor. Had these farms played by the rules to start with, wages would've risen to meet their labor demands and the ever increasing cost of labor would've led to new innovations in the industry to increase productivity. By supplying the industry with counterfeit labor, illegals are suppressing wages and suppressing industry innovation, neither of which are good for the economy.
I'm against the minimum wage because it creates the very class of perpetually poverty-stricken people we're talking about. The minimum wage is a price floor on labor, and as anyone who has ever taken Intro to Macro knows, price floors create surpluses. In this case though instead of a warehouse full of goods, that "surplus" is a class of people who have been- by Government mandate, permanently priced out of the labor market. It makes it impossible for people who a...
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Commented in Fear of Deportation Is Making Your Food More Expensive
Oh boo-hoo. These farms have been cheating the system for years and now they're having to pay the piper. That industry has benefited from counterfeit labor for decades which has suppressed wages and created a massive imbalance in the market. Now the market is going to have do what markets always have to do in such situations, correct itself.
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Commented in Ontario becomes 2nd province to go ahead with $15 an hour minimum wage
This is far from the first time the minimum wage has been increased. it's just been an unusually long time since the last time.
Generally it pushes up comparably on everyone else's wages as well; While barely moving the needle on prices of things. This will be no different.
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Commented in Ontario becomes 2nd province to go ahead with $15 an hour minimum wage
Selfishly, my first thought was to wonder if my wages will go up a corresponding amount or if it'll just mean minimum wage becomes significantly closer to my hourly rate. I'm also curious if the prices of things will rise. I struggle to survive on my pay which is above the incoming minimum wage so if prices go up and my pay doesn't increase in a similar fashion then I'm screwed. I'm all for the minimum wage rise if it means people struggle less but I hope companies don't raise prices using it as an excuse.
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Commented in Japan's sex problem could cause the population to fall by 40 million by 2065
I get the young people not starting families thing, we have that here in America where the cost is just too great with stagnant wages. But, the fertility rates, are those linked to anything in particular? Two nukes on the country and a meltdown at a power plant can't be good for the country as a whole. Of course, fertility rates may be down all over I just don't see news stories on it.
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Commented in Employers legally allowed to pay women less than men for same work, US federal court rules
Basically, it appears the ruling keeps with the Equal pay act by saying that a variety of factors are allowed to be used in determining pay if there is a history of it. In this case asking for past wages to determine the wage you're going to earn at the new job.
I still hold to the belief that the only way to get the equal pay so many are looking for is to require businesses to go to a tiered pay scale. In the military they use or used grades of pay, my local Government has tiered pay, T1 is entry and usually low and it goes up to like T9 for the city management. Each job is assigned a Tier number based on requirements, what you do and then you get a pay set by the city for that tier.
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Commented in Trump: What the Market Is Really Saying
"the unemployment rate could not drop further without generating inflation as workers asked for higher wages."
There are still plenty of unemployed to muster, look to the labor force participation rate.
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Commented in Vancouver slaps $10,000 a year tax on empty homes. Lie about it and it’s $10,000 a day
So, about 2 hours wages? Oh, what a deterrent. Big fucking deal. When will the morons who decide on taxes and fines and things like that realize that rich people scoff at numbers like this? They are the same people who decide to violate the law in their business dealings because the profit will be far more than the fines, so they just call it a cost of doing business. Rich people don't think like the rest of us because their perspective is different.
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Commented in Australian opposition leader Bill Shorten set to declare Donald Trump ‘entirely unsuitable to be leader of the free world’
" the free world", finish high school ->options
slave like wages and begging for tips, university debt or join the army?? "free"