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Doctor Foxx posted...

wolfy42 posted...

Min wage, in my opinion, should be different then a living wage. Min wage should be the lowest amount you can pay a high school student or someone working less then 20 hours a week. Any job that is over 20 hours a week should be required to pay a living wage, which is determined in part by the cost to rent in the area (and updated yearly I would guess).

That's absurd. It's not just high school students taking part time work. And that only incentivizes companies to hire more part time employees and fewer full time employees, making it necessary to take on multiple part time jobs to pay bills.

You can't hire grown adults for less then 20 hours a week for most jobs, it just wouldn't work. And 20+ requires the living wage. You could even basically state anyone over 18 needs to be paid a living wage even for under 20 hours.

Part time work still needs to support someone, and should pay a living wage. Too many companies get around paying medical etc right now by offering less then 30 hours.

Due to companies not giving over 30 hours, many have to work two jobs already (this is only due to benefits usually). There would be no loophole allowing companies to pay less by hiring multiple employees for less then 20 hours. High school students (those under the age of 18) could be paid less, but there would be restrictions on how many such employees you could have, and you would need at least 1 adult employee to supervise each under aged employee.
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