Re:What happens when all of your co-workers quit?
by lotsofpulp on Friday August 20, 2021 @12:25PM
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That is why the solution is to raise the wage per hour by greatly increasing the salary at which an employer can not pay overtime.
All there hotels and restaurants and service sector businesses used to paying bottom tier wages to desperate workers are now relying on their “managers” to fill in the gaps, and the pay their “managers” $36k per year to work more than 40 hours per week.
People accept it because it is a more reliable wage than hourly which can go up and down, but it usually means you are working 50, 60, 70 hours a week for extremely low pay.
If you bump that exempt min wage to $100k or $200k per year, then the employer is forced to hire more people and reduce reliance on these desperate “managers”.
All there hotels and restaurants and service sector businesses used to paying bottom tier wages to desperate workers are now relying on their “managers” to fill in the gaps, and the pay their “managers” $36k per year to work more than 40 hours per week.
People accept it because it is a more reliable wage than hourly which can go up and down, but it usually means you are working 50, 60, 70 hours a week for extremely low pay.
If you bump that exempt min wage to $100k or $200k per year, then the employer is forced to hire more people and reduce reliance on these desperate “managers”.