Hey, minimum wagers! If the boss is making you work on this holiday, don’t forget that South Dakota has no laws requiring time and a half or any other form of holiday pay. For once, South Dakota’s cheapskatery is far from unique: only Massachusetts and Rhode Island require employers to pay employees more for dragging them away from their holidays.
But on the bright side, make sure the boss remembers to add another 40 cents for each hour you put in today and for the rest of this glorious new year. Thanks to the work of Democrats and the will of the voters back in 2014, your minimum wage went up when the ball dropped at midnight to $11.20 an hour. That’s a 3.7% raise from last year’s $10.80 and 54% better than the federal minimum wage you’d be stuck at in Iowa and 12 other states.
40 cents more an hour—put in 40 hours this week at minimum wage, and you’ll have an extra $16 in your pocket.
I well remember when the initiated measure to increase the minimum wage was announced a decade ago. The spin was that this progressive measure would devastate the work force in SD driving out many businesses that could not afford to operate if they had to pay such wages. Fast forward a decade and we see that the sky really did not fall in when the lowest paid employees enjoyed a higher salary.
Nobody rides for free.
Nobody rides for free including Scrooge like bosses unwilling to pay their workers what they are worth.
Grudznick is old. When he was in his prime, $2.25 per hour was a decent wage. The world has changed. Grudznick has not.
I cannot concern myself with minimum wage, it is not constitutional, and has never effected me ever. the Country needs to make better trade policies, less regulation on businesses, less taxes, and stop paying taxes on your labor, there is NO Law that says you owe a income tax on your labor, and if you people knew this, even you stop paying. TRUMP is right, get rid of the Payroll Tax benefit all of us.
If your workers are only worth $11.20/hour, Mr. Nemec, you need better workers. Or better jobs.
Grudznick: “. . . Or better jobs.”
Were you visited by three ghosts over Christmas, my Dear Mr. Grudznick?
$2.25 per hour was a decent wage. The world has changed. Grudznick has not.
Goatzilla still thinks $2.25 is an adequate wage for all workers except the wealthy.,
I am concerned about minimum wage because I care about others. (Telling how MZ can dismiss this issue that does not affect him, but has to get neck deep in LGTBQ+ and women’s rights; I suppose it is pick-and-choose who needs to have their lives controlled by the MAGA.) The country needs to make batter trade policies to even the playing field on worker and environmental protections, increase the regulation on business to create good community citizens, start equally taxing progressively ALL compensation and inheritance as income (and all income for Social Security) and SUBSTANTIALLY increase the taxation on the top brackets. The US economy boomed under those conditions; time to do it again.
The Zit’s precinct men and women did not pass the automatic increases in the state’s minimum wage, so it does not exist. And as much as I’d not like to pay federal income taxes, I don’t really want to share a cell in either Leavenworth or Yankton with a fellow scofflaw. Unless it is with The Zit or Grudz. Just think of the conversations we’d have!