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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Politician Proposes 4 Month Training Wage In Lieu Of Minimum Wage. WHAT GALL!
GOP wants to allow employers to pay a new hire a training wage for 4 months well below the minimum wage. The employer would have not obligation to keep that employee after the training period.
These chiselers are really imaginative. They always have a twist that fucks the vulnerable.
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cvoogt
(949 posts)that'll be even cheaper
SummerSnow
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antiquie
(4,299 posts)this sounds like right-wing justification for paying crap wages to workers to me. polite and well written, but right wing just the same.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)The influx of corporate propaganda-spouting personas is steady and unnatural:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4216987
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3189367
States that build surveillance machines also build propaganda machines.
gopiscrap
(23,767 posts)always looking for ways to fuck over the American worker and people wonder why they need unions and NEED TO BE VOTING DEMOCRATIC!
Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)I started working at age 16 in the 1980's. At the time, minimum wage was $3 and some change. When I got hired, I was informed that the labor laws allowed untrained workers to be paid $2.85 an hour if memory serves. This went on for a few weeks until I had enough hours to eclipse the requirement and be considered "trained" and thus eligible for Minimum wage. I want to say it was 100 hours, but it may have been more. This was a long time ago, and I haven't thought of it since that time honestly.
So I've seen this before, and I've lived through it as a teenager.
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)And you don't have to keep the employee, but you have to pay them 2 months salary if you decide not to keep them.
Great idea, GOP.
ck4829
(35,096 posts)I hear about 3 months is the usual length of time they have.
And I'm sure any new job the temp agency has for you would also mean new 'training'.
Springslips
(533 posts)It certainly sounds like something the GOP would do, or something from the Onion; they are indistinguishable now a days. I want to know the who, what, when, where about it.
TheMastersNemesis
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