A recent report on Early Childhood Education: Advancing the Profession from the National Association for the Education of Young Children highlights that, on average across the USA, preschool teachers only earn $ 6 more
than fast food employees.
What I found interesting is that the article by ABC news focused on the fact that the pharmacy technician was a teenager and had no more training
than a fast food employee.
Not exact matches
Chick - fil - A says its service is so consistent because it invests more
than other companies in training its
employees and helping them advance their careers — regardless of whether those careers are in
fast food.
And, for
fast -
food companies and franchisees, the question of increasing
employees» wages is more complex
than tacking on a few extra dollars to everyone's salaries.
While we can't trace that back directly to an ROI, it's easy to imagine that if our
employees ate
fast food every day, many more
than half would not be eating salad.
Zappos does offer free
food to its
employees, but the pile of cold cuts in the small cafeteria loses its allure
faster than you can say Googleplex.
«However, the agreement does not feature penalty rates at all which effectively means any
employee is worse off under the agreement
than he or she would be under the
fast food modern award,» Mr Simotas says.
A lawyer for the state's department of labor, Pico Ben - Amotz, said the wage order it issued this summer — which followed recommendations of a three - member board convened by Gov. Andrew Cuomo — would eventually impose an hourly wage rate of $ 15 on
employees of any
fast food chain with more
than 30 locations, be they in New York or elsewhere.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. —
Fast food workers in Upstate New York could soon demand $ 100 more a week in pay
than all other minimum wage
employees in the region.
Because of the two different minimum wages, for
fast food workers and the rest of workers, an
employee at McDonald's or Burger King could make $ 100 more a week
than a home health care worker or grocery store cashier.
One of the unintended consequences of the new minimum wage deal:
Fast food workers upstate could soon demand $ 100 more a week in pay
than all other minimum wage
employees in the region.
Editor's Note: This blog post was corrected on September 10, 2015, to make clear that workers in caring professions are likely to experience less dissonance
than baristas or
fast food employees, not more.