California's minimum wage is going up at the end of the month. Do you think follett will do the CA layoffs before then or does that not matter?
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You're confusing a "minimum wage" with a "living wage"--they are two completely different things. The minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage. It's an established economic fact that increasing the minimum wage makes hiring employees more expensive to companies and tends to increase unemployment rates of entry level workers. "Living wages" are even more harmful--just look at the economic history of socialist/communist countries.
No. The minimum wage should affect too many employees.
Folks, whenever "industry" complains about an increase in minimum wage, it's BS. Minimum wage is far below a living wage in most areas of California. If follett had many minimum wage workers, they're terrible. The total impact should at or near $0.
The county I live in adopted a "living wage" for county workers. Fact was, only 2 county employees fell under the "living wage". It was a big progressive step that cost very little.