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If working retail, mopping floors and stocking shelves is not an entry level job, in your opinion, then what is? > These retail jobs need to pay a living wage.
by j4kp07 8y ago
If working retail, mopping floors and stocking shelves is not an entry level job, in your opinion, then what is?
> These retail jobs need to pay a living wage.
1) A living wage for which city/state and 2) Does this include part time workers and 3) Define part time?
- maxerickson 8y agoThey are agreeing with the sense you are using entry level. They mean that in addition to being entry level jobs, people are staying in them for long periods of time.
- habosa 8y agoIdeally a living wage for the city/state in which they are offered. If that's not possible, then it should be a living wage for a nearby town including the cost(s) of transportation to/from the job.
- moorhosj 8y agoIt seems like you are the one who introduced the phrase “entry level” to make your point. OP simply said that these are not stepping stone jobs, but destinations with little upward mobility.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoWhy should an "entry level" position not pay a living wage? Do those people not have expenses? Or families?
- gwbas1c 8y agoBecause the assumption is that "entry level" means someone who's still living with Mom & Dad; or various other situations. (Leaving jail, recent immigrant, mother returning to the workforce.) IE, someone in an "entry level" position is someone who has partial support in their household. Of course, there's plenty of good discussion to have about the ethics of this kind of employment. Needless to say, I prefer to spend my dollars are stores where "entry level" employees are teenagers, retirees who just want to get out of the house, and people who need an extra opportunity to make an honest life.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoSo, assumptions that are no longer true, and haven't been for a while?
- kenpomeroy 8y agoBecause economics
- s73v3r_ 8y agoNo. If you can't pay your employees a living wage, that's your failure, and you shouldn't be in business.
- kenpomeroy 8y agoSome jobs generate less value for businesses than the arbitrary amount you deem to be a "livable wage." That's economics.
- scrumption 8y agoI love this argument that doesn't attempt to address the fact that these jobs are necessary to the economy and must exist, but jumps straight to the assertion that whoever does them just deserves to be poor.