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After Winning a $15 Minimum Wage, Fast Food Workers Now Battle Unfair Firings



Francis Gomez, 26, said she was fired without warning from a Taco Bell in Queens after she swore at a delivery driver who was harassing her.CreditMichelle V. Agins/The New York Times

Its workers were the first to stage rallies demanding a minimum wage of $15 an hour. Then, they pressed for changes in the way national restaurant chains set their work schedules.

Now, they are asking the City Council to shield them from being fired without a valid reason. That protection, the sort of job security that unions usually bargain for, would be a first for a city to provide to workers in a specific industry, labor law experts said.



 

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If these same retards were not pushing for endless immigration for 50+ years they would have better wages. Oh....the irony
 

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Haha, I remember when Pavian/donger was arguing "smart people" should determine the minimum wage.

Libtards, cradle to grave.
 

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yeah, i definitely couldn't have predicted this popcorn-eatinggif....https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/minimum-wage-new-york-jobs-recession/

$15 Minimum Wage Sparks A Jobs Recession In New York


Economics 101: When Amazon pulled out of New York, the loss of 25,000 future jobs made headlines. What isn't making headlines are the thousands of jobs being destroyed right now thanks to the city's new $15 minimum wage.

Over the past four years, the minimum wage for New York City restaurants that employ more than 10 workers went from $10.50 an hour to $15. That's a whopping 43% increase. Next year, every restaurant, big and small, will have to pay their workers at least $15 an hour.

A big victory for workers, right? That's how it's depicted by the "Fight for $15" crowd. And, yes, if you held a full-time minimum-wage job over those years, your gross income would have gone up by $9,360.

But those massive wage hikes come at a painful cost that backers refuse to acknowledge. They kill jobs. Just like they're doing right now in New York City.
In just the last three months of last year, 4,000 workers lost jobs at full-service restaurants, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show. By the end of last year, there were fewer restaurant workers in the city than in November 2016. Even though overall employment climbed by more than 163,000.


Those who keep their jobs aren't necessarily better off, either.

The Hospitality Alliance survey found that more than three quarters of New York restaurants cut worker hours in 2018 to offset that year's wage hike. Seventy-five percent say they want to cut hours this year.

"Though the new regulations are intended to benefit employees, some restaurateurs and staffers say that take-home pay ends up being less due to fewer hours — or that employees face more work because there are fewer staffers per shift,"
 

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Imagine needing government to secure an income for you? That's about as low as it gets

Of course there's free housing, free food, free healthcare, free cellphones.............. and they want more

They think they have "the right to pursue other peoples' money", and guess what party they belong to?
 

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After Winning a $15 Minimum Wage, Fast Food Workers Now Battle Unfair Firings



Francis Gomez, 26, said she was fired without warning from a Taco Bell in Queens after she swore at a delivery driver who was harassing her.CreditMichelle V. Agins/The New York Times


Doesn't sound like an unfair firing to me. This younger generation are going to learn a tough lesson on manners, societal mores, and that you can't go around cursing people out at your job because you have a disagreement.

All those fast-food workers are temp employees anyway -- automation is cheaper and more effective than the meatbags working there currently
 

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