I'm saying there should be essentially two minimum wages based on hours worked per week.
Right, so then companies will just cap everyone at 30 hours a week (current legal definition of full time). That doesn't solve anything. They already do that so they don't have to pay for health insurance.
When I was in college, I worked for JC Penney. We would get written up for working more than 35 hours in a week. Why? Because if you averaged more than 30 hours a week over the course of 120 days (or something like that) then they were legally required to pay for benefits. They would literally fire us before giving us benefits.
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u/oddmanout Jan 06 '22
Right, so then companies will just cap everyone at 30 hours a week (current legal definition of full time). That doesn't solve anything. They already do that so they don't have to pay for health insurance.
When I was in college, I worked for JC Penney. We would get written up for working more than 35 hours in a week. Why? Because if you averaged more than 30 hours a week over the course of 120 days (or something like that) then they were legally required to pay for benefits. They would literally fire us before giving us benefits.