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Not all jobs require the payment of a living wage, but a supplementary wage. Students, older people looking to supplement pensions, part timers who have other jobs, husbands or wives looking for a little extra. They don't need a living wage. They can benefit an employer and benefit themselves at the same time.
If each employee has a value, each job has a value. Each task has a value. When an artificial mandate is enacted to raise getting the task done beyond the value of that task, an employer won't pay it, find another way, get someone to work under the table, do something else. They just won't pay that mandated wage.
We are paying a mandated wage now
you ever heard of Bacon Davis?
you know what a union is?
Look this whole discussion has found its end to me. I am very surprised at the rights the employer has over the employee with some on this message board.
Every union in this country has a mandated wage and there are 1000s of companies that pay it daily.
If you work on a federally funded project you will pay Bacon Davis wages. There are thousands of companies viaing for that work and have no problem with it
The last project I was assigned too was a union project. Just to bid on the job you had to hire union employees and pay union wages