The employees at McDonald's in Norway have to pay back 80% of what they get paid in taxes. Think on that!Business cannot base their budget on emotional factors... If they have 40% available for labor costs than that is all they have, regardless of how long the janitor has been working for them.
. Agree if that's all they have, but how do you know what they have, and if they did what I said, then would you disagree with them for doing so ? Hmmm, is it that you like calaboration on the issue at or near the top or in certain circles, otherwise to say that if the employee's being treated badly at XYZ company can't run to ABC company in order to do better, and/or get a better situation going, then somehow that is a good thing in your opinion ?
That's our point. You seem to be automatically assuming they do have money to pay more. You don't know that.
I know the company has more money to pay employees more, when they do in fact pay their employees more.
Most businesses that have more money, do in fact pay their employees higher wages.
And I have in fact worked with companies that simply didn't have anymore money. They couldn't offer you a pay raise, if they wanted to.
When I was in high school, I worked at McDonalds. I think I was paid 25¢ over minimum wage, which was $4.50 an hour. They never gave anyone a raise. Why? Because they were broke. And as if to prove it, the year after I left their employment, they closed the store. "McDonald has billions! They can pay $15/hour!".... you don't know that. Each store, is a self contained business. Most are franchises, that are not even connected to McDonald's corporate. The store someone is working at, could be on the brink of bankruptcy. You don't know.
The stores that make more money, routinely pay higher wages. Again, all the way back in the 1990s, if I worked at the fast food joint downtown, I was paid $4/hour more. Why? Because it was way downtown, and you were hopping with people all day long, and thus obviously the store made more money, and thus they could pay higher wages.
Like I said, employers that can pay their workers more.... routinely do. By the way, that's at all pay ranges, not just entry level. If you doubt that, just ask how much a mechanic makes at the Chevy dealer, verses the Cadillac Dealer. Or look at how much airline pilots made in the 1970s, when plane tickets were 4 times higher in price. Airline pilots made a ton more than they do today.
This shouldn't be surprising. When the company makes more money, they are routinely willing to pay out higher wages.
When they don't.... they don't.
Complete and utter bunk. Businesses don't give raises when they have more money, they give raises when they need to do so to retain employees. PERIOD.
And yet.... I've been given a raise. I have no degree, no skills, no abilities whatsoever. I was given a raise. Can you explain that? They could have replaced me with a million people easy. Any idiot could have walked in off the street, and done my job. Why give me a raise?
Why did the airlines in the 1970s and prior, pay their pilots tons of money? Why did airline pilot pay drop after deregulation, when ticket prices fell. Did they need to keep pilots in the 1970s, and magically not have any need to keep them in the 1990s?
Why do McDonald's in Norway pay their employees $15/hour, when there is no minimum wage at all? Can't be because they charge $16 for a burger, and thus have the money to pay more.... right? So what's your answer?
Why do Cadillac, and Lexus dealerships pay their mechanics way more than Chevy and Ford Dealers? Couldn't be because those cars bring in more revenue, and thus they can pay more.... right? So what's your claim?
The mechanics who work on Lexus and Cadillac cars get paid more for the same reason mechanics who work on Ferraris and Lamborghinis get paid more.
THINK!
These are extremely highly trained mechanics working on extremely expensive cars.
THINK!!!!!
I took my vintage Mass. to the dealership recently for it's annual checkup/service.
The car is literally bullet proof. The labor to do a thorough checkup was $160 an hour for three hours.
I'm more than happy to pay highly trained mechanics to even put a hand on my car.
I watched through the window as the mechanics went over the car. Two of them in pristine white overalls. You could literally eat off the floor.
Four pages of checkmarks.