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Doctor Foxx posted...

Blighboy posted...

I was under the impression minimum wage working hours have been going down across the board regardless of minimum wage.

They have indeed. You often need 2-3 jobs to make 40 hours a week. Employers get away with and opt for being heavily staffed with part time employees so they do not have to offer the same benefits. This has been the case increasingly even in places without changes to the minimum wage.

Kinda this (although the wording is slanted as hell, considering there's nothing to "get away with"), but keep in mind that an increase to minimum wages will lower the total number of hours being given out because employers will try to cut corners a bit.

Lightning Bolt posted...

Were people actually saying that an inreased minimum wage wouldn't see people working fewer hours?
I thought that was half the point of an increase.

I vaguely recall it as a selling point for the increase, but given the fact that they're coming home with less money per week (rather than the same money for fewer hours or more money for the same hours) clearly this isn't what they wanted.
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