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To: flatsville who wrote (106580)	6/5/2001 3:03:24 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (3) of 436258

"Deserving" has nothing to do with what you pay your employees, nor do considerations as to whether or not you are paying a "living wage". If that were the case then we'd have different wages for people depending on how many dependants they had. Minimum wage jobs are entry level low skill jobs that pretty much anyone can get so that they can develop skills and experience in order to move up. The fact that some don't move up and remain in these low paying jobs is another problem altogether. I've helped any number of people gain the skills and confidence they need to leave low paying jobs for ones higher up on the ladder. In this way you give them something better than money. As an employer it behooves me to pay my employees exactly the wage that it would take to replace that employee with another employee of similar skill and experience. The job has a market value, the employee has a market value. The employee can increase their market value in a thousand ways. Also, I might choose to pay that employee just a little bit more than what it takes to replace them with the idea that you have to add in the cost of churn. In my business it would take almost three months before I'd have an employee fully trained which means there is considerable up front cost in new hires. It's pretty straight forward, if you increase the cost to an employer of these entry level jobs you reduce the number of jobs available. If you reduce entry level jobs you are going to find it is more and more difficult for people to make that jump from unemployable to employable. I've never had employees that were paid minimum wage (although I use interns that work for free) because my business requires skilled employees, yet there's not one person who has ever worked for me that didn't at one time have a minimum wage job or sub-minimum wage job including myself. The resources to help people move on and up are considerable if people will avail themselves of them. Paying them a small pittance more doesn't motivate them to use them, if anything it traps them in tighter. People have to be forced by necessity to make changes, to take chances to learn some new skill.

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