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Is a minimum wage intended to provide support for one person or for a family (including dependents)? You aren't really clear in your comment on this point, whic
by gwright 7y ago
Is a minimum wage intended to provide support for one person or for a family (including dependents)? You aren't really clear in your comment on this point, which is common confusion in much discussion of this topic.
If it is for an entire family, then shouldn't there be a different, lower minimum wage for an individual without a family? What about a teenager with an after school job? What about a retiree who is just trying to keep busy but doesn't need a living wage at all?
- krnlpnc 7y agoIMO an average household. Going into more detail than that is a slippery slope towards profiling and discriminatory pay.
- gwright 7y agoHow does that work? If the minimum wage is intended to be sufficient for an "average household", then shouldn't it be less for a household without children, and smaller still for a single person?
- krnlpnc 7y agoThat is discrimination.
- gwright 7y agoSo by your logic an employer would be required to pay every employee a wage that would allow them to support a family even if they don't have a family to support?
- krnlpnc 7y agoYes. I’m talking about the minimum wage for any employee. Consider the fact that it is illegal in the US to ask an interviewee their age, marital status, and family status, among other things.
- gwright 7y agoAny employee? Part time job for a teenager?
- krnlpnc 7y agos/?/.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoNone of that is illegal. You can ask, but you can't discriminate.
- krnlpnc 7y agohttps://ocs.yale.edu/get-prepared/illegal-interview-questions https://ocs.yale.edu/get-prepared/illegal-interview-question...
- SamReidHughes 7y agoThe page is wrong. Those are not illegal questions.
- krnlpnc 7y agoAgree to disagree
- SamReidHughes 7y agoUm, no, you can read the law itself or follow some links on the page you linked. This isn't a matter of opinion.