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hey so can they do this
Mr. Henry Bemis
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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9DU1CRO0.htm
does this count as blatant discrimination or what
Missouri lawmakers are considering lowering the state's minimum wage -- but only for teenagers.
A Senate small-business committee has debated legislation that would allow employers to pay 75 percent of the state minimum wage to workers younger than 20. Republican Sen. Tom Dempsey of St. Charles says his bill would spur the hiring of younger workers to help them get experience.
Under the bill, the lower minimum wage would expire in 2013. Employers could not fire more experienced workers to hire younger people who could be paid less.
Business groups applaud the idea, but unions say it would be unfair to pay people less solely because of their age.
does this count as blatant discrimination or what
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Teenagers?
Dear satan I wish for this or maybe some of this....oh and I'm a medium or a large.
"Business groups applaud the idea"
YA THINK?!
people under 20 getting paid 75 percent what people over 20 get
your paygrade being contingent on how many years you've been alive and no other factors seems pretty discriminatory to me
mow my lawn for 30 bucks pbsssh
Christ on a crutch.
USA USA
young cats don't vote all that often, and they're getting the bulk of temp jobs anyway so slash and burn some more I guess?
what about that one a few weeks ago that allows corporations to basically fund political campaigns
it'll help them lose weight and then business will hire more of them!
William Munny disagrees
they want smokers to lose rights as well
this just seems like it will be really unpopular
The minimum wage is why it's so hard for teenagers to get jobs. And, for teenagers, the benefits of a job are usually about the experience, and not the pay, if they're supported by their parents. (Some aren't; so maybe it's too blunt an instrument.)
Actually the minimum wage in general isn't such a great idea, because it increases unemployment. Letting it drop wouldn't be such a bad thing in a recession.
http://numberblog.wordpress.com/
Businesses say "Awesome, we can just keep rotating people under 20 in and pay less"
They do, but that lower paycheck is usually compensated somehow. Like by having to pay less tax, for instance.
man teenagers aren't supposed to get decent jobs starting out, why?
because most of them are useless
what
Yeah it kind of benefits the kids who don't need the money because they will be hired on easier, but the thousands of teenagers who are living off of this wage and trying to support themselves or a family are going to suffer greatly.
dick
Yeah, I mean.
Let's just drop the minimum wage alltogether.
Who cares if workers can eat or have a place to live, the important thing is that we employ a bunch of people who can't eat or have a place to live.
But the group most likely to be unemployed (by the definition of "looking for a job") is 18-21. Why not make it easier to employ them?
http://numberblog.wordpress.com/
i don't think the benefits of making it easier for parent-supported teenagers to get jobs outweigh the negatives of making it really tough on teenagers who have to support themselves/others and making it unfairly difficult for 20 year olds to get a basic job for which they would be competing with teenagers
it makes sense. most of the jobs a kid can get now seems to be something temporary or something picked up in a trade school
around here that is usually CDL licenses and truckin'
It's true. If they have no place to go they will basically be forced to work more hours.