Posted on 04/19/2016 2:05:42 PM PDT by grundle
The $15 minimum wage hike in California has sent financially troubled UC Berkeley into decision making mode, and "the people who clean buildings, who work in food services or health clinics,” says Todd Stenhouse, will be the ones without a job.
Stenhouse, a spokesman for the American Federation of StateChancellor, also said “There’s a very clear need for those front-line services. But the question is whether there really is a need to hemorrhage resources on executives.”
Nicholas Dirks sent a memo to employees Monday informing them of the job reductions and said they will amount to “a modest reduction of 6 percent of our staff workforce.”
Berkeley employs about 8,500 staffers, from custodians to administrators. Departments on campus were reportedly also told to reduce their budgets by 10 percent in whatever way they wish.
Some staff members in at least one area, residential student services, were told by managers two weeks ago that they should prepare to be laid off.
This may be the sad but true reality that many working people all across California will face in the coming future due to the recent decision to raise the state-wide minimum wage.
<<< they should prepare to be laid off >>>
Ode to the stupid.
Oh my! Hoisted upon their own petards...
No problem. This is progress to a Leftist.
I started working more than a few of my jobs starting at $0.00 per hour and worked my way up from there.
Worked out pretty darn good for me.
Irony alert! Lolololol...
I wonder how many are students. Now they will have to take out larger student loans. Because of the larger loans, more will default with the result the government will have to print more money to cover the cost.
Raising the minimum wage results in less jobs?
Gosh, who ever could have seen that coming?
67 is what he keeps, 34 is who gets the ax......................
1000/15 = 66.67
Since you can’t hire or fire 2/3 of a person, the next logical thing to do is round up or down. If you can afford no more than 1K per hour in labor expenses you have to round down, so you can now employ 66 people at $15/hour vs. the 100 people at $10/hour you previously employed.
This means you have to lay of 34 people, which is what the original poster said IIRC.
Otherwise I think the number was 1005 at 67*15/hour.
gee thats a shame.
Well they can hire illegals under the table to cover. (Isn’t that what the minimum wage hike is about?)
Well, 36 people, as the higher wages are also reflected in higher social security contributions and other wage taxes (35.4, but round up...) Add in paid family leave, paid sick leave, etc, and at the end of the day, 60 people have to do the work of 100.
Oooh, wonder if the next headline is ‘higher wages leads to higher productivity by workers’? Betcha it is...
This is so corrupt.
Having worked in the university system, and later as a manager of a contract with a university as a contractor, I know that there are many employees that produce nothing and others that work in useless and featherbedded positions.
(This is one reason that univ costs are so high.)
One suspects that firing food and health employees will cause the desired outcry, and give cover for tuition increases.
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So the remaining staff got the ‘raise’ and need to do more work to cover for the lesser work force.
Win - win in Libs’ utopia.
Well Governor moonbeam will just have to raise taxes
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