Essential Employees

This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by _Dazed on Friday, March 27, 2020 and has 7 replies.

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Every worker deemed essential during the Corona Virus outbreak, should be paid a living wage... even after this is over.

$ 15 an hour at least.

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Posted by saggurl88
Posted by _Dazed

Every worker deemed essential during the Corona Virus outbreak, should be paid a living wage... even after this is over.

$ 15 an hour at least.

That's our minimum wage where I live. No thank you

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Yeah I was gonna say...

$ 15 per hour is a far ways from a living wage depending on where you live

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Posted by saggurl88
Posted by _Dazed

Every worker deemed essential during the Corona Virus outbreak, should be paid a living wage... even after this is over.

$ 15 an hour at least.

That's our minimum wage where I live. No thank you

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That's cool.

68% of the States pay under $ 10/hour.

44% of the State still pay the Federal minimum wage.. $ 7.25

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Posted by _Dazed
Posted by saggurl88
Posted by _Dazed

Every worker deemed essential during the Corona Virus outbreak, should be paid a living wage... even after this is over.

$ 15 an hour at least.

That's our minimum wage where I live. No thank you

That's cool.

68% of the States pay under $ 10/hour.

44% of the State still pay the Federal minimum wage.. $ 7.25

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Those states should be ashamed of themselves. It is impossible to live off $ 7.25 per hour. After taxes, that's only about $ 250 per week.

Forget waiting for states to mandate it. Just start picketing greedy employers. Don't spend money in busineses that pay under $ 10 p/h