PoliticalChic
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...Who the heck are you to decide that carrying drywall is worth whatever some bureaucrat says it is worth?
Or collect nails left on the jobsite"
Or getting coffee for workers? ...
Political Chick, The minimum benchmark affects all wage rates but does not affect them all equally.
Prior to this message, nothing you wrote of Ms. Elzie Higginbottom construction enterprises was germane to the federal minimum wage laws.
I dont suppose you have ever carried wall board, lifted it up to and affixed it to ceilings for an entire working day. (Ive done so).
If Higginbottoms an experienced general contractor, she knows that if you trust more demanding tasks to severly underpaid employees, the damage induced by such extremely inadequate compensation would exceed any possibly hoped for net cost reductions due to an extremely unrealistic pay scale. This is relatively valid within the USA or a nation that enforces no minimum wage.
This is not germane to the discussion of the FMW. The FMW is the legally mandated minimum rate regardless of the tasks demands.
Tasks such as construction clean up or doing the coffee run or working as a flagman on mild spring days at comparatively safer less polluted surroundings are not very demanding tasks are the tasks directly related to our discussion of the FMW rate.
I addressed less demanding jobs such as these within the first post of another thread.
Excerpted from:
http://www.usmessageboard.com/economy/232006-consequences-of-repealing-minimum-wage-rates.html
There are many job tasks that do not justify the minimum rate but they now exist because their performance is necessary to our public or private enterprises. Those jobs will continue to exist but their wage levels will plunge down to sub-minimum rates.
Sub-minimum jobs will be the vast majority of additional jobs created and (because many of those qualified to perform sub-minimum tasks were previously not qualified for employment at minimum wage rates), well have a pool of eligible labor that will far exceed the number of those additional jobs.
The affect of those extremely poor paying jobs will ripple throughout our entire labor market. All labor compensation will be somewhat affected but the general extent of the effect upon a tasks wage rate will be inversely related to the difference between the purchasing power of the eliminated minimum wage rate and the jobs rate; (i.e. the more youre earning, the less youre hurting. Thats the meaning of minimum wage rates inverse affect upon all jobs rates).
Lower wage earners will all then be paid in wages of extremely poor purchasing power. Prior to the elimination of the minimum wage rate, many of those now earning the lesser purchasing powered wages will have been unemployed or not worked steadily but they will be joined by those who already had been the working poor and some who were previously getting by slightly better. Therell be net increased needs for public assistance and our states cant now handle the present needs.
Thats a scenario of increased national poverty.
I m a proponent of an annually cost of living adjusted minimum wage rate similar to the annually COLAd Social Security benefits.
Respectfully, Supposn
I asked:
"...Who the heck are you to decide that carrying drywall is worth whatever some bureaucrat says it is worth?"
Now I get it.
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