Im a college student and was working a minimum wage type of job pre-covid (around $12/hr). I was technically blocked from receiving merit increases (which were only $0.15) because CA has $15 minimum wage in the pipeline. $15 minimum wage DOES NOT encourage good employees.
Not only that but people who do not live within their means will not no matter what you raise the minimum too. People will get used to $15 as the baseline and start living off $20 and say $15 just isn't enough. Meanwhile many of them are not even worth $1. Illegal labor is just going to increase and it almost seems like that is the plan.
Im a college student and was working a minimum wage type of job pre-covid (around $12/hr). I was technically blocked from receiving merit increases (which were only $0.15) because CA has $15 minimum wage in the pipeline. $15 minimum wage DOES NOT encourage good employees.
Not only that but people who do not live within their means will not no matter what you raise the minimum too. People will get used to $15 as the baseline and start living off $20 and say $15 just isn't enough. Meanwhile many of them are not even worth $1. Illegal labor is just going to increase and it almost seems like that is the plan.
yup, allows government to then pick winners and losers in the economy through selective. In some industries they're already doing that.