What is your thought about minimum wage

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

and cost of living indexes.

should minimum wage go up to promote more american workers and less illegals

should it be varied by job type? age? state? province? etc?

what are your thoughts?

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

My thoughts are about Iraq. What are your thoughts?

 

[phace5]

I'm in favour of a minimum wage...

but it is a bummer if you are a small businessman, crippled by it.

 

[Purrde Flower]

Being down on the low I do not believe min was is enough. But it also depends on where you live.

In Austin, unless I wanted to live in an apartment the size of a box, min wage is not enough.
Yes in another city in Texas, West Columbia, I could rent a nice four bedroom house for 650 a month. Min wage is enough there.

 

[Topher]

I think everyone who works should be paid enough money on which to comfortably live. There should be no worries about food, shelter, clothes, transpo, or medicine (and other basics that I am forgetting I am sure) for his entire family (just try to keep the family size proportional to your income, ok?).


It's embarrassing that any children go hungry in this country.

I don't care how this is realized as long as it is realized.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

Why should the guy in the cubicle next to me make more money than me just because he decided to have six kids and I only have one? Not a flip question. It's a legitimate issue in the workplace.

 

[Todd-'o'-Vision]

Why should the guy in the cubicle next to me make more money than me just because he decided to have six kids and I only have one? Not a flip question. It's a legitimate issue in the workplace.

I agree if he/she is doing the same skilled job as you that he/she should get the same pay as you, if there job is "higher" in priority then more pay

 

[Topher]

I don't know if you think so, but if you think that is what I said then I didn't. I said the opposite.

No kid show go hungry because of his parents' irresponsibility however.

 

[pointless]

EVERYONE DESERVES A LIVING WAGE. minimum wage is nowhere near.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I'm not sure if you all realize this, but the reason minimum wage is so low is because of small business. If mom and pop have to hire a kid to stack the Fritos at $12 an hour, they would go out of business. There is no discrimination between small and big business where minimum wage is concerned. Work on that, and then you can work on setting realistic wages.

besides, the big problem isn't minimum wage any more, it's the Part Time status wave that hit a few years ago. The corporations realized that they wouldn't have to provide decent wages and insurance to "seasonal" workers, so they've made it increasingly difficult for entry level employees to meet the attendance requirements needed to be bumped up to "Full Time" status.

 

[Sillyman]

Personally I've always thought minimum wage should simply be abolished and replaced with a massive welfare for everyone system, but hey, that would mean taxes.

 

[CatEyes]

I believe wages, not minimum wage, already vary by job type and location.

I do think minimum wage is very low but I don't know of too many jobs that actually pay minimum wage. I think if you get a job just working at McDonalds or any store you start at $7 to $8 an hour. I kind of wonder what jobs actually do pay minimum wage.

I watched a show a while back and they had Ben and Jerry from Ben and Jerry's ice cream on. They pay their people a living wage, which I believe they said at the time was around $10 an hour.

Lets say you do raise minimum wage from $5.25 to $10 do prices go up according to the new minimum wage, do companies base their prices on that? What happens to the person that was making $15 an hour? While before they were making almost 3 times minimum wage now they're only making 1 1/2 times that. So what they're earning isn't worth as much as it used to be. Should their wages be increased also?

Someone mentioned part time workers. I always thought it was cheaper to have a part time person instead of a full time employee. My company seems to disagree with that, they say it costs more to have a part time employee. I have to find out how they come up with those numbers. Today though a lot of companies do give employees who work 30 + hours benefits when years back you used to have to be a full time 40 + hours a week employee. That's an improvement.