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This bill affects only hourly workers, which means that Walmarts and other companies will just cut their work week and pay employees less. They are not going to
by tlogan 5y ago
This bill affects only hourly workers, which means that Walmarts and other companies will just cut their work week and pay employees less. They are not going to pay them overtime if they work more. And poor people will need to find an extra job to keep up with bills.
The only poeple who might benefit are hourly gov employees - but that depends on budget constrains.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoif walmart employees unionize it could go a long way to prevent that
- tlogan 5y agoExactly!!
- Ericson2314 5y agoThis is poor reasoning. It assumes there will be enough extra jobs, but there is a friction to that. Wallmart trying to staff up with more people will also not be trivial for them, and come with more fixed costs. Obviously it would be better with a magic way to get rid of second jobs for poor workers (and stuff like UBI and JG nicely avoid these issues without magic) but it still would be win for labor.