The clock was ticking toward July 1st, and there was a rush to implement the new hotel-worker-turned-all-city-worker ordinance fairly quickly. The vote was early May. Businesses on bi-weekly payrolls had just three pay periods. Businesses on a monthly payment schedule had to be set just about as quick as they learned about the policy.
The minimum wage would move from $15 to $16 per hour for all the tipped workers, and that was going to affect all the restaurants and bars around my shop.
The banner of ‘minimum wage’ gets all the attention but thats like saying ‘gay.’
Imagine the word ‘gay’ that became the LGBT community, that became the LGBTQ community, that became the LGBTQI+ community.
So minimum wage is MW, then you have MW+V+S+FED+UN+MED+WC+CPI+.
That is minimum wage plus vacation and sick pay and federal matching taxes and unemployment insurance and medical benefits and workmen’s compensation all multiplied by CPI. Now do some of you get it? The discussion is not on the basic wage.
All the businesses would be required to give each employee up to 80 hours per year vacation time, and up to 96 hours a year paid sick leave. That comes out to about a month and a half of not working.
As an employer, I like to have employees who are indispensable. In my shop, BlockParty, I do not even know how to use the register and cannot see the screen. One of my opening lines in every interview is , “I’m the owner not the boss”. And I think I pay my people very well. Nobody has ever asked...
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