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Thursday, September 14, 2017 4:01:43 PM
mr40 - Fox News and Dan Springer cry out for a fact check
Origins: On 22 July 2015, Fox News published an article titled “Seattle Sees Fallout from $15 Minimum Wage, as Other Cities Follow Suit.” Credited to correspondent Dan Springer (who also recently reported that Oregon was providing 15-year-olds with sex change surgeries), the article lamented what it claimed were “unintended consequences” resulting from a Seattle law raising the minimum wage there to $15 per hour.
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In that same article, Full Life Care’s executive directly explicitly stated that the issue was not one of worker laziness or an intent by employees to “game the system” for additional “welfare benefits,” but rather one of necessity due to Seattle’s exceptionally high market rate for private housing:
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“This has nothing to do with people’s willingness to work, or how hard people work. It has to do with being caught in a very complex situation where they have to balance everything they can pull together to pull together a stable, successful life,” Gibson said.
Gibson said she fully supports a minimum wage increase but was not surprised when her employees asked for fewer hours.
“The jump from subsidized housing to market rate in Seattle is huge,” she said.
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http://www.snopes.com/seattle-15-minimum-welfare/
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Not-So-Big-Mac: What 'Minimum Wage' Actually Means In Australia
Angus Kidman Aug 20, 2013, 9:00am
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If you're of the view that high wage costs are a problem for Australian businesses, you'd be tempted to point to these charts. However, there's a really important proviso to remember: the minimum wage applies if your job isn't covered by an award and you're over 21. The Fair Work Ombudsman spells that out very clearly on its page covering the minimum wage
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The national minimum wage is the minimum wage that applies to employees who aren’t covered by an award or agreement.
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Given that, are there jobs that pay less than the minimum wage? Absolutely. One well-known example is apprenticeships and junior staff. The Fair Work site lists what you have to pay these roles if an award isn't in place:
Age .. % of national minimum wage .. Minimum hourly rate
Under 16 ........... 36.8% .......................... $6.03
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/08/not-so-big-mac-what-minimum-wage-actually-means-in-australia/
Your habit of imputing false motives for actions by needy, hardworking people sucks .. also your habit of putting words, even if only obfuscated in a question, into other people's mouths sucks.
Origins: On 22 July 2015, Fox News published an article titled “Seattle Sees Fallout from $15 Minimum Wage, as Other Cities Follow Suit.” Credited to correspondent Dan Springer (who also recently reported that Oregon was providing 15-year-olds with sex change surgeries), the article lamented what it claimed were “unintended consequences” resulting from a Seattle law raising the minimum wage there to $15 per hour.
[..]
In that same article, Full Life Care’s executive directly explicitly stated that the issue was not one of worker laziness or an intent by employees to “game the system” for additional “welfare benefits,” but rather one of necessity due to Seattle’s exceptionally high market rate for private housing:
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“This has nothing to do with people’s willingness to work, or how hard people work. It has to do with being caught in a very complex situation where they have to balance everything they can pull together to pull together a stable, successful life,” Gibson said.
Gibson said she fully supports a minimum wage increase but was not surprised when her employees asked for fewer hours.
“The jump from subsidized housing to market rate in Seattle is huge,” she said.
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http://www.snopes.com/seattle-15-minimum-welfare/
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Not-So-Big-Mac: What 'Minimum Wage' Actually Means In Australia
Angus Kidman Aug 20, 2013, 9:00am
[...]
If you're of the view that high wage costs are a problem for Australian businesses, you'd be tempted to point to these charts. However, there's a really important proviso to remember: the minimum wage applies if your job isn't covered by an award and you're over 21. The Fair Work Ombudsman spells that out very clearly on its page covering the minimum wage
-
The national minimum wage is the minimum wage that applies to employees who aren’t covered by an award or agreement.
-
Given that, are there jobs that pay less than the minimum wage? Absolutely. One well-known example is apprenticeships and junior staff. The Fair Work site lists what you have to pay these roles if an award isn't in place:
Age .. % of national minimum wage .. Minimum hourly rate
Under 16 ........... 36.8% .......................... $6.03
https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/08/not-so-big-mac-what-minimum-wage-actually-means-in-australia/
Your habit of imputing false motives for actions by needy, hardworking people sucks .. also your habit of putting words, even if only obfuscated in a question, into other people's mouths sucks.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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