U.S. minimum wage jumps today

[Bergermeister]

Big Bad Farm Girl wrote:

I don't know if we are the only ones with a minimum wage. Likely not, since all of Europe is pretty much a socialist land mass.
The government of United States has no right to set a wage. The way everyone is whinning it makes me think they are all minny wage earners.
High schoolers and slow under developed minds should be the only people on the low spectrum. Even Mickey Dee workers make more than the minimum.
It is all a Democrap feel good thing. We will raise your wages and tuck you in bed at night with a warm bottle
Nitey nite

Good point. Does anyone know of a company that pays minimum wage anymore?

[Doug]

Bergermeister wrote:

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Good point. Does anyone know of a company that pays minimum wage anymore?

It doesn't matter. If someone's making $8/hour which is $2.15 more than the old minimum, he's inclined to think that he's entitled to a 70 cent raise when they implement the new minimum.

[Bergermeister]

Doug wrote:

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It doesn't matter. If someone's making $8/hour which is $2.15 more than the old minimum, he's inclined to think that he's entitled to a 70 cent raise when they implement the new minimum.

Good. Then tell them to go find a job somewhere else that pays $8.70/hr.

[thurston]

If your company can't afford to pay the slave wage of min wage. Then you deserve to go out of business.

[Voice of Reality]

thurston wrote:

If your company can't afford to pay the slave wage of min wage. Then you deserve to go out of business.

That's pretty dumb Thurston. What do you get then? No wage, right?

[Dactyl]

Wow, you gotta like this....

More than 90% of all countries have some kind of minimum wage legislation.[1]

The current federal minimum wage for full or part-time employees aged over 21 in Australia is AU$13.74 (~US$13.10) per hour.[6]

[edit] France
As of July 2006, the minimum wage in France is set at €8.27 (~US$11.98) per hour. In 2004, 15% of the working population received the minimum wage. The minimum wage in France is updated every year in July by the government. By law, the increase cannot be lower than the inflation for the current year. In the recent years the increase was up to two times higher than the inflation (around 5% raise with an inflation around 2%).

[edit] Ireland
Ireland's minimum wage was introduced in 2000, and is currently €8.65 an hour. This is subject to reduction as follows:

30% reduction for all employees under 18.
20% reduction for employees over 18 in their first year of employment in any job since they turned 18.
10% reduction for employees over 18 in their second year of employment in any job since they turned 18.
It may further be reduced by up to €7.73 a day if lodgings and/or food are provided as part of a job.[16]

Trainees (including those over 18) are also entitled to different minimum wages, reduced as follows:

25% reduction for the time during the first one-third of the course.
20% reduction for the time during the second one-third of the course.
10% reduction for the time during the final one-third of the course.
Due to general difficulties in finding employees, most jobs pay above the minimum wage, with only 3.1% of employees receiving it in 2004.[17]

Ireland has the second highest minimum wage in the EU, after Luxembourg.[18]

[thurston]

Voice of Reality wrote:

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That's pretty dumb Thurston. What do you get then? No wage, right?

Wrong, reality boy. Once again you missed the whole point, min wage in 1968 adjusted for inflation was $9 an hour, this is a greed issue.

[Gain Some Reality]

In Defense of Scooter wrote:

In his defense of Scooter, the rebates cost the government a lot more than $600 per person, to print them, send them out, etc. When it would have been a lot cheaper and quicker to give everyone a tax holiday directly in their paycheck. Sending the checks was just for show.

Tax holiday?

The federal government does not control anyways paycheck.