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Seattle’s $20 Minimum Wage Backfires as Delivery Orders Plummet
« on: April 28, 2024, 10:56:56 am »
Seattle’s $20 Minimum Wage Backfires as Delivery Orders Plummet
©Source: OC Register

A new law in Seattle aimed at protecting delivery drivers has customers opting out of ordering takeout and restaurants seeing plummeting sales. The controversial minimum wage hike for gig workers has the city council scrambling to walk back the harsh effects of the well-intended but poorly executed effort to boost pay.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/seattle-s-20-minimum-wage-backfires-as-delivery-orders-plummet/ss-AA1nMtmO?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=41624aab61e74744902c17527ffea5f7&ei=63
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Re: Seattle’s $20 Minimum Wage Backfires as Delivery Orders Plummet
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2024, 12:39:22 pm »
:silly:

Idiots.
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Re: Seattle’s $20 Minimum Wage Backfires as Delivery Orders Plummet
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2024, 05:29:48 pm »
"Great!  I'll be getting $20 an hour!"

No, you'll be getting ZERO, because your job won't exist!
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