http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/31/washingtons-minimum-wage-to-rise-to-919-an-hour-at-midnight Comments On: Washington's Minimum Wage to Rise to $9.19 an Hour at Midnight by Goldy en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
$7.35/hr. in 2013 is a disgrace to everything holy - and I bet he attends church regularly, too. $7.35/hr. is - what? - $47 a day in take home pay? About $1040 a month? Let's see his ass trying to live on that.
Posted by Bauhaus I]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:42:04 -0800 The Stranger
$.10/hour at 40 hours a week is FOUR fucking dollars a week, $200 per year. The guy has a pizza parlor - if he has 20 full time (or equivalent man hours) employees, that is $4,000 per year. If his business can't afford $4k per year, he has far greater problems than how to pay his employees.

Not to mention but 100% of that extra wage is going to go back into the economy - funny thing, poor people spend all the money they have because they don't have enough to save any. So, it is likely that he'll probably get more business as a result....
Posted by randoma]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:28:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by K]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:23:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by I have always been... east coaster]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:19:12 -0800 The Stranger
yeah, Australia totally rocks.

we, by comparison, are bumbling boobs.....

in fact we should bring our military home from the Pacific and spend the next decades in remedial nation building.

how many aircraft carrier battle groups does Australia have, btw?

how many months after we leave would pass before their women were all working as Shanghai whores and their mens were pool boys for Chinese Billionaires?
Posted by .......what a joke]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 09:50:34 -0800 The Stranger
wow.

you make the Heritage Foundation sound like partisan hack whores like the SPLC.....
Posted by you are so full of shit]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 09:43:21 -0800 The Stranger
@2 - Never, never, NEVER cite the Heritage Foundation if you need to back yourself with facts. They are a biased, partisan outfit whose only purpose is to provide intellectual cover for the conservative Republican agenda and nothing they publish can be considered trustworthy.
Posted by I have always been... east coaster]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 09:03:38 -0800 The Stranger P-I in the very late 80s showing how extremely difficult it was to live in Seattle on $9/hr. That was more than twenty years ago. While I applaud the rise in minimum wage (the federal minimum wage is shameful), it isn't enough to live alone and support yourself in one of the most expensive cities in the country.
Posted by Bauhaus I]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 08:02:04 -0800 The Stranger
Yeah...we really are pathetic as far as countries go.
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:37:49 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sarah70]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:52:14 -0800 The Stranger
the labor force is the smallest its been since august 2008.

and the number of people with a job is at the lowest point in the past 12 months.

7.8% means jack squat.
Posted by Jack.Squat.]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:12:46 -0800 The Stranger
you've never employed anyone, have you asshole......
Posted by the way you see it with your head up your ass]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:08:43 -0800 The Stranger
The problem with low or no minimum wages is that it leads employers to be inefficient and wasteful with the labour they use. The way I see it, if you can't afford to pay your staff more than $20 an hour, (or whatever the liveable wage is), then your business isn't viable, and you need to be doing something different.
Posted by doloresdaphne]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:00:11 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sperifera]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:24:07 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Patricia Kayden]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:49:02 -0800 The Stranger
Workers in all industries who are 16 years of age or older must be paid at
least the minimum wage for all hours worked. Workers who are 14 or 15
may be paid 85% of the minimum wage.
http://www.lni.wa.gov/IPUB/700-074-909.p…

Are there any exceptions to payment of minimum wage for agricultural workers?
Yes. Minimum wage does not apply for any individual if all the following requirements are met:

- The individual is employed as a hand-harvest laborer; and
- The individual is paid on a piece rate basis in an operation where such payment is customary; and
- The individual is a permanent resident and commutes daily from his or her own residence to the farm; and
- The individual has been employed in agriculture less than 13 weeks in the preceding calendar year.

For example, someone (an adult or minor) who works less than 13 weeks per year harvesting berries during berry season, but does not normally work in an agricultural job at any other time, does not have to be paid minimum wage. Migrant farmworkers are not exempt.
http://www.lni.wa.gov/WorkplaceRights/Ag…


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I'm not saying boycott Oddfellows and Smith or... or well, maybe I am saying that. The woman's favorite book is Atlas Shrugged and it shows, doesn't it?
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:04:44 -0800 The Stranger
All assets should be taxed...above a threshold.
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:00:45 -0800 The Stranger Posted by watchout5]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:00:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sargon Bighorn]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:44:01 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:40:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Reader01]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:18:24 -0800 The Stranger