I guess you can pay your employees more when you outsource their health care costs to healthcare.gov....
Just sayin...
Also by raising the cost of labour it hurts the small time operators in the area becasue now they have to raise wages to prevent workers leaving for wal-mart....
I miss the old wal-mart when sam ran it, not the crony crapitalist big govermeent monster it has turned into...
B.S.
It’s a triumph of Big Government which has managed to grab on to enough of their shorthairs to encourage them to do their bidding.
It often makes economic sense for individual companies to pay a premium wage. (Costco has long paid a premium wage to employees. By doing so, the company gets to skim the cream off the top of the labour pool (if you can get your mind around that mixed metaphor). These better-educated, or more highly motivated employees earn their higher wages, when compared to the performance of the average minimum-wage worker — especially when the motivation of higher-than-most wages is factored in. That doesn’t work, when governments raise the minimum wage for everyone.
Baloney.
We’ll be sure to see the “success” on our increased register receipts I’m sure.
Does this include management getting a $9 an hour raise, if so then nothing has changed.