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Re:California wants to tax companies for executive pay ratio by mattxxx on Saturday January 18, 2020 @12:04AM (#22082414)
Well, if you have 1,000 workers operating at the lowest wage, you have a choice to give them all raises or fire all of them.

Whether or not this can be gamed isn't the issue here. I think it's good to increase pressure on companies to treat their employees fairly.

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Re:California wants to tax companies for executive pay ratio by inetknght on Saturday January 18, 2020 @12:15AM (#22082458)
Why fire all of them when you can give fifty of them promotions to middle managers in charge of training "contractors"?
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Re:California wants to tax companies for executive pay ratio by Mirioron on Saturday January 18, 2020 @03:48AM (#22083256)
Just spin off that part of the company into a separate company.
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Re:California wants to tax companies for executive pay ratio by koheripbal on Saturday January 18, 2020 @11:56AM (#22085438)
Better yet, just automate their jobs away.

Our company specializes in automating low wage clerical work.

I think we put over a thousand people out of work this year through our various engagements.

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