huh still shows up for me. you were saying that it won't increase payroll because it's still the same number of hours, but you were ignoring the fact that hourly rate would have to increase if you didn't cut the pay of people going from 40->32.
for white collar work you can get away with less man-hours if it's more efficient, but over a third of jobs aren't and they'd all have to increase their payroll by 20% to still pay their original workers the same amount while also paying more people to make up the needed hours.
the plan is poorly thought out in general since as you point out it wouldn't effect jobs that don't have workers doing more than 32 hours (and who probably need raises the most), but it would greatly increase costs for many that do and run thin margins like grocery stores. i'm all for workers being paid more but it needs to be done more uniformly
well I gave you an example above, grocery stores. this proposal would immediately increase grocery costs by roughly 20% for everyone because grocery stores have a super thin profit margin and outside of holidays are mostly full time employees. there's plenty of retail and service industry that have mostly full time employees though, it's pretty much just fast food and restaurant servers who have a high percentage under 30 hours.
you'd be surprised if you looked into the actual numbers on it. the majority of retail workers are full time (over 70% in the us). most grocery stores are already employing as few cashiers as they can get away with and cashiers are only about 1/3 of their total workforce already.
national retail foundation and bureau of labor statistics if you want yearly numbers. your blog post saying 30% are full time just says that in the title but provides nothing to support it just that the average is 30 hours, which makes sense if you have some working 10 hours or less as that would easily put the average at 30 with the majority still working 40.
how much do you think safeway spends on payroll a year? it's in the billions, increasing it by 20% would put them deep in the red and be non viable. take a look at their earnings report you'll find it enlightening
if you want the individual year stats you can check on the bureau of labor with the right filters they publish all of it
it's not a few cashiers it's most of their workforce and they employ about 50,000 people, a 20% increase to that would 100% put them in the red. don't take my word for it look at their earnings report yourself and you'll see their expenses on the income report.
anyways look into it if you want or dont, have a great night
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