Business backlash after $15 minimum wage recom
ALBANY " Businesses are bracing for the aftershocks a day after a state wage board recommended a $15-an-hour minimum wage for fast food workers.
The plan outside of New York City is to phase in the higher wage by about a dollar a year until 2021. Even though the mandate is only for fast food restaurants with 30 or more locations business leaders say all restaurants will feel the pinch in some way.
For 70 years Bob and Ron's Fish Fry has been serving up seafood in Albany.
"Our food is the best in the area for as far as seafood goes," manager Donny Nedeau said. "Everything is hand done on the premises. Nothing comes in frozen, everything is fresh."
The workers there do not make more than $15 an hour. The seafood joint is not included under the wage board's new mandate.
Still, business leaders say mom and pop shops like Bob and Ron's Fish Fry will be impacted because workers will either flock to the places right across the street that will pay $15 an hour or there will be an onslaught of applicants at non 15-dollar-an-hour-mandated restaurants.
"Because these major corporations are going to scale back. They are not going to be able to afford to pay a full crew that kind of money," Nedeau said.
But the Citizen Action Committee, which is helping lead the "Fight for 15," disagrees.
"All these great big huge corporations like McDonald's and Burger King, they're making tons of money," Citizen Action Committee Capital District Organizer Mark Emanatian said. "I believe that not-for-profits and mom and pop businesses might need some help to make the transition but there's a simple economic fact: When there's more money in the hands of people it's going to help the economy all across the board."
Emanatian adds that the boost to low-wage workers will also help people get off food stamps and other kinds of government services.
"So if they went to $15 an hour they wouldn't need that help," Emanatian said.
But the New York State Restaurant Association says the "Fight for 15" could ultimately kill jobs.
"Price increases, for sure. Cutting hours, possibly. In extreme cases, laying people off. And in even more extreme cases, when businesses might not be able to handle it and close," Government Affairs Coordinator Jay Holland said.
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This law hurts everyone it alleges to help.
I have always told my staff that if they want a wage increase, do what I do and strive for your next position. Don't expect people to pay you more for doing the same job. Give yourself a raise by striving for that next step in your career.
Forcing companies to pay more for a job that doesn't dictate its value. Also more money doesn't mean more value. When more things go up and less people by these things... Jobs will be cut! Wake up people!
The corporations will simply shift their investments to technology like self service kiosks rather than pay a person 15 dollars an hour to simply take money and place an order. Unemployment will rise due to this shift and justifiably so. You either make your own raise by increasing your skill set, or you will be at the mercy of politicians pan handling for votes on promises they can't keep.
It's simple, u need more skills, I don't want people making 15 an hour for flipping a burger
Hi. L.A. Sous Chef here. Can attest. The salad guy and the dishwasher have both been terminated. The new salad guy now washes dishes in between orders and doesn't leave until 12 am. We close at 9. Our sauté team now consists of me and our Chef is now the grill cook.
$15 is a common salary for skilled assembly workers. Is it fair to them? Are they going to want more money now?
No way am I in favor of 15$ a HR for fast food. No way!
What democrats say: how can you raise a family on minimum wage?
Typical entitlement philosophy. I didn't work for a better education. I am not as qualified as others. I didn't do anything myself to improve my life. But somehow, I deserve what those who worked for what they have.
More money doesn't mean more value of the dollar, it would only cause an inflation of the dollar. What is needed is a deflation; making the value of money increase, not to water down the value by printing out more bills.
Ha ha. Workers asked for fewer hours on Seattle when they found out they were losing their freebies with their $15
so you really think McDonald and burger king care . they can go automated anytime they want.
$15 an hour! I used to work on the drilling rigs and risked my life for $14 an hour. I put myself through college on two jobs and became a software developer. It's called "Self Improvement"... and if you give people more than they're worth.. they'll only become arrogant and more ignorant.
The current craze with the left is raising the minimum wage. The mechanism for that movement is fast food workers. Agitating workers to strike, demanding raises. At the same time the left is complaining that fast food is unhealthy and should be banned. If both of these goals are realized, fast food workers will be paid $15 an hour at restaurants that don't exist.If the minimum wage is raised to $15, Will I (at $16) get a comparable raise. Or will my lifestyle be degraded by the rise in prices to cover the cost of $15 workers?
Burger flippers don't deserve anywhere near skilled labor I'm a welder making 22 a hour
Do franchise like McDonald have the money to pay? yeah, but do they want to pay that many workers $15? no, they're going to be firing a lot of workers or raise the food price, Small business suffer along with the big ones too,
I would raise rents I would raise the cost of everything on my menu I would lower employee hours I'd cut employees I'd work my business myself I would never change my profitline and neither will any other organized business
its not just $15.00 a hour that is paid by the business, but all the unemployment, workers comp, fica, medicare insurance that has to be match. so that $15.00 a hour turns in to $22.00. That is the part no one is addressing in all the conversations that I have read. The better way to do this is to spiral it all down, instead of spiraling it up.
Their jobs will be replaced by Ipads