Fair Wage Surcharge

Fair Wage Surcharge Aug 31, 2023 13:37:44 GMT via Tapatalk crazy4scraps, casii, and 1 more like this

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Post by Merge on Aug 31, 2023 13:37:44 GMT

Aug 31, 2023 13:28:53 GMT casii said:

Aug 30, 2023 3:38:03 GMT pudgygroundhog said:

Like so many other things in our country - money talks and corporations will do anything to save money. The National Restaurant Association has been successful in their lobbying to keep this pay low. The whole system is BS - their are discrepancies in tipping based on race and gender and looks - it has nothing to do with how well someone is doing their job. Instead of an employer paying an actual minimum wage, workers are not guaranteed this - they are at the mercy of the public to pay their wages. Technically, an employer is supposed to make up the difference if a worker doesn't make enough to reach minimum wage, but this doesn't always happen.

And this system is so engrained that when some restaurants tried to do away with tipping and instead reflect the cost in their menu prices, they struggled.

Freakonomics has done several episodes on tipping and Throughline did one too (https://www.npr.org/2021/03/22/980047710/the-land-of-the-fee)

I listened to the Throughline one a while back and it's especially eye opening.

They also did one on how corporations, Walmart as an example, have massive amounts of employees needing public assistance which means while Walmart rakes in record profits, they are also the beneficiaries of massive social program benefits AND there's some weird kind of government benefit that PAYS Walmart to employ people needing assistance so in some way they're double dipping.

I do not shop at Walmart for this reason among others. We’re already involuntarily subsidizing their decision to pay low wages with our tax dollars.

For those who are interested, we’re often subsidizing the low pay given to school district employees like aides and custodians who make so little they qualify for public assistance. People don’t want to raise those salaries because they think it would be a raise in taxes, but you’re already paying for the public assistance instead.

Post by Merge on Aug 31, 2023 13:37:44 GMT

Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 1, 2023 15:07:51 GMT