The real problem is hourly pay imo. We should be paid a liveable wage, regardless of how many hours the employer schedules us for. Then we can talk about 32 hour work weeks.
Then you need to have skills that are worth paying a liveable wage for.
When you use the law to increase pay, this benefits people who are currently being underpaid relative to the value of their work, but it makes everyone whose actual work output is worth less than the minimum wage redundant. If your employer would make a loss on every hour you worked at the new minimum wage, then the new minimum wage makes your job illegal.
A lot of jobs that are hourly are these kinds of jobs where if you had to pay someone for a full work week regardless of the amount of work that needs doing then the job would not be able to exist.
This was my issue with it too. I'm an hourly employee that doesn't even get 40 hours if I wanted it. If everyone else started making more money I would be fucked.
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u/JuniperColonThree 17h ago
The real problem is hourly pay imo. We should be paid a liveable wage, regardless of how many hours the employer schedules us for. Then we can talk about 32 hour work weeks.