Re:CA employers must reimburse remote workers for all necess...
by Sohcahtoa82 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @06:56PM
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> McDonalds corporate even realized this and started talking up fully automated restaurants.
IMO, this is going to happen at some point anyways. It's only a matter of time.
In the short term, it's going to cost a LOT of money to develop, deploy, and work the bugs out. But in the long term, it means there's literally hundreds of thousands of workers they could replace. They will eventually see an RoI.
Re:CA employers must reimburse remote workers for all necess...
by greedo on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:11AM
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Worked 16 years for an owner-operator in Southern Cal. Every time min wage was increased, the number of hour permitted was limited so that total payroll remained the same. So sure we might not have had layoffs, but we definitely had less people working. This behavior was consistent with all the franchisees in So Cal.
There is always the threat of laying off staff instead of paying more, but only a relatively minor portion of management is enough of a maniac to actually go through with it. I worked at a McDonalds during a minimum wage hike (you can tell this was a long time ago), and while everybody said it would result in cut staff few went through with the threat. Sure you could find examples here and there, but at the end of the day they were already operating with the minimum amount of staff they could get away with. There was no slack in the system.
McDonalds corporate even realized this and started talking up fully automated restaurants. I think they even built a pilot store somewhere. They dust it off anytime people start talking about minimum wage hikes, even though it makes no sense economically even if we were to double the minimum wage overnight.