1ºYup my job is hiring too. Starting pay is $12. They give you 6 paid holidays. The mandatory 1 week of sick leave per year accrued, no roll over. No paid time off. They also give you an option to purchase insurance you won't be able to afford as a single person If your a single parent. Ie, me. No 401k. You can take as much time off as you like, but you're not gonna know if you are approved for that time off until the day before your time off is supposed to start so good luck planning anything. Also they thru around the thought of giving out a bonus to their essential workers, but decided not to. Anyone wanna work with me?
2ºStop the tip system and give people real wages instead!
If you look in many other countries, there are no service charges and no added taxes on the bill, because that is all added in to the price, and many people will also leave a small tip IF they are happy with the food and the service.
That way, if you have $10 and order a meal for $10, then you can eat it and pay for it without any problem!
Look at Bangkok as an example, there are no service charges and no tax added to the bill... exempt for American franchises or restaurants run by Americans! That's why you find that in Bangkok a coke that cost B15 in the convenient store, B20 in the local Thai restaurants, B40 in the fancier restaurants and minibars... set you back B80 in those American franchises or American run restaurants!!!
3ºIn his 1933 address following the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act, President Franklin D. Roosevelt noted that “no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.”
“By ‘business’ I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of decent living,” he stated.
A federal minimum wage wouldn’t be permanently mandated until 1938 under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the same bill which prohibited child labor and limited the workweek to 44 hours. Even then, the idea was the same: ensure that businesses have to a) pay people for the work that they do, and b) that the payment is at least enough to live on.
4ºHeres the dilemma...
Say you have kids. Well if you work you need daycare, and daycare for just 2 kids is like $1000/m.
Most jobs you might make $600-800/every 2 weeks.
So that's $1600/m if you have a decent paying job. That's $600/m for rent, lights, car insurance, car payment, stuff for the kids, and food. Not possible. Unless u apply for food stamps and medicaid. But now u make too much money to be approved for those things. Maybe they give you $100/m in food.
Jobs dont pay a living wage
And not everyone could afford college to have a career.
5ºI make 22 an hour ripping out fireplaces and replacing them. Dangerous work, gas lines, machinery, tight spaces and heights. After taxes come out I make about 850 a week at 50 hours which isnt bad! But it's the cost of living makes it tough when you have a mortgage, daughter and transportation. I have to be extremely specialized in my field and in electrical, gas lines and connections, stone work, framing, siding, roofing, and up to code with the units themselves. Do you know how disheartening it is knowing I'm literally killing myself with creasoot and carcinogens and dangers on the jobsite and the end game is what? Maybe 30 bucks an hour? The big thing I'm beginning to find in why most people dont want a job that's ×$/hrs because they know that in the long run it wont pay off anymore. Back 30 years it was different.
6ºWell gee. Roughly 23% of US homes are single parent homes. Paid $7.25/HR before taxes at 32 hours a week to avoid providing any extra benefits for employees. Pay is biweekly $650.00ish monthly rent + $120.00 electric + $80.00 water + monthly vehicle expenses roughly $250.00 + $450.00 in food because you probably don't qualify for food help due to "employment" + daycare weekly copay after state help at $35.00 out of pocket because you're "employed"
Puts you at roughlyyy - $700.00 +/- before taxes to keep small humans alive and sheltered with a "job".
As long as you're child doesn't get sick because you can't afford nutritional groceries,you don't get sick yourself since you can't afford to eat because your childs shoes finally fell apart and no unexpected emergencies pop up to make you miss any hours .... I'd say you'll have enough saved for a Christmas tree and 2 $5.00 child gifts by the time your kid graduates High School. Pray you only have 1 child who's grown out of diapers so maybe you can afford toilet paper and trash bags.
7ºHiring for jobs with bullschitttt wages. Remember that people in the media earn hundreds of thousands of dollars. They need you in these positions so they can have places to go and eat. UCKF them all. This country has enough money and resources to pay its “beloved and ever grateful for” front line workers at least $30 per hour and provide full health care. Even small businesses. Stop allowing the media and politicians to dictate to you. If you stick together, stay home, and don’t listen to broke azzz wi+e folks complaining about “get back to work”. They’re already broke and sitting at home collecting government assistance. Don’t fall for the tricks. Also, Trump is a POS and all Republicans. Stop biting your noses to spite your faces!
8ºA record number of underpaid service industry jobs are not claimed because owners get away with not paying overtime and fairly, oftentimes with no breaks, zero benefits, no sick days, and the workforce is too poor, used to the normality of abuse, and disillusioned to sue for justice. Yeah, that’s what’s happening.
And for those saying those are easy jobs: spend a week working in the restaurant industry back of the house and see how well you do. Weaklings and slow people need not apply!
FIX the service industry and then you’ll have:
- loyal employees
- better service
- more jobs fulfilled
And get rid of the colonial tipping system. If a server is bad they won’t last, period. If this works in Europe it should work here.
9ºYes.I agree that they are plenty of jobs
But as long as the federal government keeps handing out taxpayer funded checks people are like why work as long as the government gives me a check.
Just like those who have been living off tax payer funded welfare for generation after generation.Why work...
Now onto the businesses..
To businesses who need workers.
People must have 40 hour fulltime jobs and health insurance.
Can't live on $10hr. and only partime work with no benefits.
The people need an incentive to get off the couch and $10hr,partime, no benefits is not going to do it.
10ºEver since Ronald Reagan became president and enacted his so called trickle-down economic policies wages for workers have stagnated while the cost of living has skyrocketed. During the three decades after World War II America had a thriving middle-class, jobs actually paid decent wages and a middle-class family could live comfortably on one income. Today it takes two incomes to make it, nearly 80 percent of workers live paycheck to paycheck and millions more are forced to work more than one job just to get by. Meanwhile the rich have been getting richer while everyone else has been getting poorer. Trickle-down economic is an outright lie!