News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Seattle's minimum wage may actually cost restaurant workers by ubernostrum on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:01AM (#14643298)
Last election, Santa Clara (county, IIRC) had a ballot proposition up to change their labor law so that a business which needed additional hours worked would be required to offer them first to existing employees (potentially putting them over thresholds for things like full-time employment status) before they could hire any additional employees to work those hours.

It's a game of whack-a-mole, but if you want to get to living wage + benefits for everyone, that's kind of how you have to go about it, since businesses will always hunt for loopholes.

Re:Seattle's minimum wage may actually cost restaurant workers by alkonaut on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:37AM (#14643411)
It's also a race to the bottom if you allow counties or even states to have local more "business friendly" employment laws. If every employer in the country was required to offer full time and 20 days paid vacation, then it wouldn't be a competitive disadvantage to do so.
Re:Seattle's minimum wage may actually cost restaurant workers by randyrand on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @04:57AM (#14643489)
except for global markets...