{"id":6171,"date":"2016-04-04T08:51:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T16:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2017-05-28T22:57:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T06:57:06","slug":"californias-inadequate-minimum-wage-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/6171\/californias-inadequate-minimum-wage-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Inadequate Minimum Wage Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6172\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2016\/04\/minimum_wage.jpg\" alt=\"minimum_wage\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2016\/04\/minimum_wage.jpg 403w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2016\/04\/minimum_wage-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2016\/04\/minimum_wage-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2016\/04\/minimum_wage-130x130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2016\/04\/minimum_wage-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/2016\/04\/minimum_wage-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/rstone\/\">Ralph E. Stone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>April 4, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Governor Jerry Brown is in Los Angeles today to sign what has been touted as &#8220;historic&#8221; legislation to raise California&#8217;s minimum wage to $15 per hour.\u00a0 Though well-intentioned, the excitement surrounding the legislation is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleydailyplanet.com\/issue\/2016-04-01\/article\/44326?headline=California-Lawmakers-Propose-a-Shameful-Minimum-Wage-Law---Harry-Brill\">overstated.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0The incremental annual increases of up to $15 an hour will not be reached until 2022, six years from now.\u00a0 And\u00a0small businesses (up to 25 employees), the majority of California&#8217;s businesses, are provided an additional year to comply.\u00a0 Furthermore, the\u00a0governor could put wage hikes on hold if there is an economic downturn, a broadly defined term. Thus,\u00a0the governor has the power to ignore the law, and if he or she does, the $15 goal could be delayed beyond 2022, or indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the legislation does not increase California&#8217;s sick leave law, which is left stuck at three days.\u00a0 Three days is just not enough.<\/p>\n<p>The inadequacy of the legislation can be traced somewhat to the myth that small business owners cannot afford to pay their workers more.\u00a0 But a\u00a0July 2015\u00a0survey\u00a0disputes this myth. \u00a0The survey found that small business owners say an increase &#8220;would immediately put more money in the pocket of low-wage workers who will then spend the money on things like housing, food and gas. This boost in demand for goods and services will help stimulate the economy and help create opportunities.&#8221; \u00a0No business\u00a0has the right to continue doing business if it cannot, or will not pay, at least a minimum wage of $15.<\/p>\n<p>A minimum wage in most cases is not a livable wage.\u00a0 What is it like to live on a minimum wage?\u00a0 In her book,\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nickel_and_Dimed\">Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America<\/a>, &#8221; Barbara Ehrenreich, working undercover,\u00a0got a job at a Minnesota Walmart\u00a0in ladies clothing, picking up dropped clothing and taking clothing from the dressing rooms and putting them back on the racks. \u00a0The job was extremely low paying and she was unable to afford much of anything outside her rent.\u00a0 On her wages, she could not buy kitchen items and was unable to cook anything on her own, living instead on fast food that she could find nearby. \u00a0She found her work at Walmart repetitive and monotonous and began to believe that the employees were working far too hard for the wages they were given.\u00a0 Ehrenreich points out that\u00a0he main way that wages were kept low was by reinforcing the low self-esteem inherent in each job. This included random drug tests, being yelled at by bosses, being accused of rule infractions, and being treated in many ways more like a child rather than as a woman in her 50s should be treated. \u00a0She concluded that no job is truly &#8220;unskilled,&#8221; that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and physical effort. She also learned that one job was not enough; you need at least two if you wanted to live indoors.\u00a0 Of course, Ehrenreich could always go back to her old comparatively privileged life whereas the low-paid workers she worked with could not.<\/p>\n<p>Much has been made about the shrinking middle class in the United States where the wealthiest 160,000 families own as much as the poorest 145 million families.\u00a0 A minimum wage of $15 effective January 2017 would be a modest start toward raising the poorest among us upward.\u00a0 That would truly be historic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Jerry Brown is in Los Angeles today to sign what has been touted as &#8220;historic&#8221; legislation to raise California&#8217;s minimum wage to $15 per hour.  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