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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems to me those businesses will just pass on those higher labor costs in the prices of their food and then the cycle begins all over again. Fast food preparation is unskilled labor. [/quote]

It’s unskilled labor that’s why minimum wage will be set at $20 for California.   Low enough based on the skill needed for the job, high enough for people to take and keep the jobs.

It’s been too long that fast food conglomerates have gotten away with advertised 99 cent burgers and paid workers $6 an hour.   Raise the prices of the food.    Plus do you really want an underpaid worker who has only been there a week and isn’t planning to stay so there’s a constant turnover of workers who have incentive to stay?  [/quote]

I didn’t see anywhere where those employees were being forced to work for that pay. That’s their choice.  If they all move on then the business owners will have to raise wages to keep workers. It’s called capitalism.
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Great, let’s bring back child labor, no overtime, health and safety rules. Why even have a minimum wage?[/quote]

I think child labor, relaxing health and safety rules and no minimum wage are good.  Employers do need to pay overtime though.[/quote]
What overtime? What a joke. There are no breaks during 10-12 hour shift, no paid training, no paychecks for years, paychecks that bounce, and no employer paid extra to meet the minimum wage. I ended up in ER few times from work. Another co-worker collapsed on the street and caught a cab to ER; all work related. This was in the late 90s and early 2000s in DC in restaurant business.
Right after 9/11 I made about $30 a night after 10 hour shift in tips. No employer was required to make up the difference to meet minimum. I remember crying and making a martini as he owed me 40 h a week x $2.17 an hour x 10 weeks. My very first job never even paid me a penny from the house and kept most of the credit card tips.
That's what you get when there's no contract, no  punch in machine, you too poor to get a different job or the different job is just as bad.
All those small business owners were applauded as such heroes/pillars of the community. One went on to open a second restaurant while not paying any of us the $2.27-$2.77 an hour. He saved 100s of thousand of dollars over the years. Not sure how he ran a restaurant without paying workers. He and his buddy were probably the only servers/bartenders on paychecks.
I probably already wrote on this post. Poor people are not even poor because of the lousy pay, but because they don't even get the minimum while ruining their health. They also have poor friends/co-worker around them who constantly need help paying bills. So, poor are in negative as they work and all this without credit cards. Extremely hard to come out of it.
I had two jobs that cost me more to go to work than to stay home. How can this be? Completely normal as the owners don't care.
Those I quite in two months, but two months too late.[/quote]

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