Reuters: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge by business groups to Seattle’s law raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour, a move echoed by other locales, in a case focusing on how the ordinance affected local franchises like McDonald’s.
The Seattle law’s supporters hailed the court’s action, which left intact a lower court ruling backing the measure, as a defeat for “the big business lobby” that has taken aim at minimum wage hikes.
The International Franchise Association and the businesses that challenged the measure did not target the actual wage hike. Instead, they argued that it was unfair for Seattle to exclude local franchises of big companies like McDonald’s (MCD.N) and Burger King (QSR.TO) from the small companies that the law gives three extra years to pay employees at least $15 per hour.
Ahhhhh I see, the Constitution has a secret section that allows for government to set the salaries of certain occupations!
What’s the court say about forcing employees to do twice as much work? If an employee gets paid twice as much, it should be fair. New qualification flip burgers with feet equally as well as with hands, at the same time. Ahh screw it, robots are easier.
They should pack up their shit and move out.
Fuck Seattle, and the state it rode in on.
The gov’t has no business interfering with peoples’ abilities to have gainful employment and to contract with their (potential) employer for a wage commensurate with their abilities.
izlamo delenda est …
of course the written opinion of the court justified their decision by citing the exact words in the constitution that enabled them to support their ruling.
ha ha ha.
I wonder how many of the justices pay the gardeners of their estates $15 an hour?
Not to worry, as with all big government intervention the unintended consequences will far outweigh the benefits.
Let Seattle stew in the filth they have wrought.
Welp. Expect to see a lot of signs like this, or variations thereof.
“Going out of business. Everything must go. Moving out of Seattle. Moving out of Washington state. Retiring early. Can’t afford to pay employees $15/hr. I don’t even get paid $15/hr.”
“Bye bye. And good luck finding a job in an employment desert.”
Employment desert. That’s a good term for areas like this, Washington state and Kalifornication. Feel free to borrow.
I went to Seattle last Friday afternoon and evening to pick up a large shipment of flowers at SeaTac airport. Got paid overtime the whole way over and back since I was already over 40 hours for the week. The traffic on 405 S was a major pain in the ass from I-90 to SeaTac Friday evening at 6:30 or so but I got there without getting lost or being delayed too much. Eastern Wash. is better and we’re closer to normal in Idaho and Montana where I do most of my driving.
On the other side of the globe, some chose to actually work.
http://theindependent.sg/92-year-old-singaporean-is-mcdonalds-oldest-employee/
Three years so they have enough time to sell out to unsuspecting flat-landers wanting to set up shop in the latest workers paradise.
What next? Will the businesses be forced to stay open so their employees will get the $15 wage?