New York State approved raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $15 per hour in 2021 for outside NYC, and 2018 for NYC workers. I am in favor as the largest 14 fast food chains in NY earned 9.3 billion dollars in profit in 2014 yet the state had to provide $903,000,000 in public assistance to their fast food employees.
The average NY fast food worker works only 28 hours per week, has no health insurance, 68% are the main wage earner in their family, and 75% of them earn our minimum wage of $8.75 (their last “pay raise” thanks to NYS). Around 60% of fast food workers in NY receive at least one form of public assistance.
I am familiar with the joke “Do you want fries with that?” and have received either the wrong items or items missing when I have ordered fast food. But if other countries are able to provide reasonable incomes for fast food workers and keep prices down then why can’t we?
Which countries that provide reasonable incomes for fast food workers, please enlighten me.
But I think this is the inflation that the Fed is looking to raise rates because the economy is unable to grow, at least not with wage growth.
In many Western European countries fast food workers are earning between $11 to $20 per hour currently. In Australia they earn $16.38 per hour, and in New Zealand $12.35 per hour. Plus more benefits.
Can you provide a specific name? I’m not aware Western European countries have fast food even. Can you tell me for example the UK, a country I’m familiar with. What do they get paid in pound? because from my experience, they get paid much lower than USA counter part and pay the exact same price in pound. For example, a Fisher Price toy is $2.99 in USA, the same toy is 2.99 in pound, while for the same engineering salary(only salary I’m familiar with) is getting paid by half. How do I know? my husband came from such country. Yes he got car allowance and more vacation but he earns more in USA.
So back to your post, when you convert the pound to the dollar, it’s going to be higher, but the COL is much lower than in USA.
I think you might want to enlighten yourself so that you understand why there is a problem here in NY State. I’ll start you off…Denmark $20 per hour according to the NY Times.
There are 15 fast food restaurants in my county affected by this change. By 2021, hundreds of local employees will be able to earn a decent salary.
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I think you might want to enlighten yourself so that you understand why there is a problem here in NY State. I’ll start you off…Denmark $20 per hour according to the NY Times.
There are 15 fast food restaurants in my county affected by this change. By 2021, hundreds of local employees will be able to earn a decent salary.
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Pikers! $50 an hour or bust!
And, while they’re at it, triple salaries of teachers, nurses and postal workers!
If $20 per hour in Denmark isn’t specific enough then I’ll have to charge you $15 per hour for researching other EU countries I suppose. How do you like your fries, salted or unsalted?
What fast food restaurant? What is the exchange rate? How much does it cost to buy the samething or toy as I provided in my example in UK vs in Denmark. Everything is relative. A lot of generalities.
They raised the minimum wage for fast food workers?
So this minimum wage doesn’t apply to people who work any other job? Only fast food?
That’s damn near the silliest thing I’ve ever heard.
Really? Name another country that has a $15/hr (or around it) minimum wage with consumer prices similar to the US. (I can save you some time, it doesn’t exist.)
@Dr. Google, I don’t practice law in California, but I sincerely doubt you can “see” the warnings for a single employee who is laid off or fired. The warning laws in most states and the federal one only apply if the company is laying off a certain number of employees and/or a certain percentage of the employees at one location or of its overall work force. If a single worker is let go due, i.e., to a personality conflict, as suggested by the OP, the company doesn’t have to give 60 days notice.
I see the article refers to fast food chain from USA, but operated outside of USA. Last time I frequented McDonald’s in UK the price of a BigMac in USD is now in pound. So 4.99$ is now 4.99 in pound and that works to be with an exchange rate of 1.6 for example is like $9 for a BigMac. I keep track of this because I only eat Indian and Pub food in UK, not fast food restaurants, it was not value for my family.
So if they get paid $20, you divide that to $9 to see how many Big Macs you can get and it’s roughly about 2. I don’t know what is the minimum wage here but last time I looked it was $8 or $9 so you divide that by $4.99 and you arrive at the same ratio. So basically your life isn’t any better over in UK than in USA.
And the minimum will not stop at $15, other people will raise price because it cost more. It will keep rising to $50 and there will still be protest.
And, the article I linked previously listed the minimum wage in all three countries–including $7.25 for the US, the lowest of the 3.
BTW, in the UK everything specifically for children age 10 and under is exempt from the VAT. (Value Added Tax; simplifying greatly, that’s a sales tax.) That also makes things easier for working class families.
Remember, the price you pay in the UK usually includes the VAT. In the US, the price doesn’t include local sales tax. So, the comparison isn’t completely fair.
