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I feel employers should be forced to pay an extra tax, something like a dollar/euro per hour of work, for employees who are given less than 35 hours per week.
by mabbo 4y ago
I feel employers should be forced to pay an extra tax, something like a dollar/euro per hour of work, for employees who are given less than 35 hours per week.
And do the same for minimum wage: an extra dollar/euro per hour for weeks where the employee works less than 35 hours.
I know there's some details to work out- vacation, employers forcing employees to say they don't want to work, and so on, but on the whole I think those could be smoothed out, and large employers wouldn't be able to get away with cheating it for long.
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- Gibbon1 4y agoBe amusing to set the corporate and capital gains tax based on employee compensation. The less you pay you employees the higher the rate.
- ebiester 4y agoConceptually great idea, but I think setting the cap of top employee compensation as a multiplier of the lowest paid employee is a better start, as well as requiring full benefits for any employee rather than a minimum. (You will have to tweak other things, and make sure to crack down on wage theft for overtime, etc, but this will remove the disincentive to hiring full time.) It isn't so much that we want to discourage investment in food supply and other service sectors but rather to increase the living conditions of those working in them. It will mean increased labor costs, decreased stock market profits, and a bit of inflation. I argue that for humane labor practices, this is an acceptable compromise for a civilized society.
- Gibbon1 4y agoThinking mode you could adjust the corporate tax rate, tax on officers salaries, dividends, and capital gains to account for the lower tax rate on lower paid employees. Would also help for the government to tax stock buybacks as profit and dividends.
- lotsofpulp 4y ago> Would also help for the government to tax stock buybacks as profit and dividends. Why? The gain from stock buy back is already captured in capital gains taxes. Simply increase the capital gains tax rate of the goal is to increase taxes collection.
- njarboe 4y agoIn the US are forced to pay more when they work over 30 hours a week. Over 30 hours and you are considered full time and the employer is required to pay for health care. The historical accident of having healthcare attached to your job due to war time wage freezes turns out to cause lots of problems when that cost becomes a double digit percent of your wage. Seems impossible to change and we seem to just keep forcing more companies to provide healthcare instead of breaking the link.
- supertrope 4y agoYeah. The actual cost of an employer group health plan is $7000 per year. If the employee has a family that's $20000 per year. Usually the employer pays for 80% of this and the remaining 20% of the premium is paid by the employee. That's another $2-9/hr.