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Supreme Court rejects challenge to Seattle's $15 minimum wage
Seattle Times ^ | May 2, 2016

Posted on 05/02/2016 2:27:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to Seattle's $15-an-hour minimum wage from franchise owners who say the law discriminates against them by treating them as large businesses.

Seattle was one of the first cities in the nation to adopt a law aiming for a $15 minimum wage, giving small businesses employing fewer than 500 people seven years to phase it in. Large employers must do so over three or four years, depending on whether they offer health insurance to their employees.

Franchises say they are small businesses and should have more time to phase in the higher wage.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: minimumwage; scotus; seattle; socialism; washington

1 posted on 05/02/2016 2:27:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t get mad...

Bring in the robots.


2 posted on 05/02/2016 2:28:32 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Don’t get mad, leave and take your taxes with you.


3 posted on 05/02/2016 2:29:35 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hmm, my dear hometown has seen better days.

Liberals ruin everything everywhere they go.

4 posted on 05/02/2016 2:29:55 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: MichaelCorleone

Maybe it’s time to just Close, Sell Off everything and Retire, hell maybe even collect a Government check.


5 posted on 05/02/2016 2:30:17 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t you get it, franchisees? They don’t want you.


6 posted on 05/02/2016 2:33:31 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("He's a winner in the process of winning. People like that." Scott Adams)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Some employees are already crying they’ve been laid off because of that $15/hr. Franchise folks can’t handle that increase. Then too, what of those already making more than the MW, would they get an increase as well? What if they’re making more, would they then be dropped down to $15?


7 posted on 05/02/2016 2:36:05 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nice for once to see the Supreme Court not getting into local legislative matters. The $15 minimum wage while not good for business, should not be answered by the SCOTUS.


8 posted on 05/02/2016 2:36:06 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now the government gets to dictate how much money private businesses have to pay to their employees.


9 posted on 05/02/2016 2:39:42 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

SCOTUS wont/cant help you.

Get out of the libbysheethole called Seattle and move somewhere in the real America.


10 posted on 05/02/2016 2:39:56 PM PDT by Gasshog (CruZ is Romney's spork weasel sock puppet)
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To: MichaelCorleone
"Don’t get mad...

Bring in the robots."

No, shut down the franchises in the area. Robots aren't cheap and given the history of Seattle anarchists, they'd routinely be torn up completely or suffer major damage.

Let Mooch cry about it becoming a restaurant desert and the same people who lost their jobs because of the higher wages can burn down whatever is still there.

11 posted on 05/02/2016 2:45:43 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Will be any owners going out of business, and many workers joining the unemployment line.

Already here where I am there has been a surge in food prices and I have shifted to other outlets.

I look a the young workers in grocery stores where prices have gone way up and I can see the fear in their eyes. They know their jobs are soon to be gone.

It’s not their fault, and it’s not the fault of owners, but you can only take so much from the consumer before they find other ways.

SCOTUS made a mistake here. And SCOTUS will be accountable, eventually.


12 posted on 05/02/2016 2:46:06 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Been nice having jobs out there, hasn’t it? All of us back East will take your jobs here...and hope that your commie neighbors stay out there. Sorry to be callous.


13 posted on 05/02/2016 2:55:19 PM PDT by Jhadur ("I'm shocked, Ricky, to discover that gambling is taking place in this establishment.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As Robert Bork once said, the Constitution doesn’t prohibit bad law, and not all bad laws are unconstitutional.


14 posted on 05/02/2016 2:56:30 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

wonderful, let the layoffs begin


15 posted on 05/02/2016 2:57:03 PM PDT by StCloudMoose
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The $15/hour minimum won’t be completely phased-in for several more years, but I’ve already noticed a jump in fast-food prices and longer waiting times because of fewer employees. McDonalds used to have two or three counter people, now they often have just one, and sometimes that one is busy with other duties.


16 posted on 05/02/2016 2:59:41 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Oh, well.

THEY GON LEARN.

17 posted on 05/02/2016 3:04:24 PM PDT by SIDENET
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To: SIDENET
THEY GON LEARN.

No they isn't. They never does. They'll just riot, blame the 1%, vote Democrat and demand a guaranteed gov'mint wage. All the gov'mint needs to do is print more money to pay for it, right?

18 posted on 05/02/2016 3:27:55 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Rashputin

“...given the history of Seattle anarchists, they’d routinely be torn up completely or suffer major damage.”

You’re right.

I didn’t take that into consideration - that’s a very real risk.


19 posted on 05/02/2016 3:45:45 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gov’t should have no business in deciding how much someone gets paid.


20 posted on 05/03/2016 12:21:36 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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