• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    And you’d be wrong. Companies would still be paying them at whatever rate they were paid at. Most jobs don’t come with specifically guaranteed hours, however.

    It’s a technicality, yes, but it’s also a very important distinction. They’re not losing pay. They’re losing hours. The consequence is the same; but short of minimum wage increases; there’s no mechanism for the US Government to dictate wages to individual companies. Particularly when they were never party to that contract in the first place.

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      8 months ago

      If you are correct, then the bill won’t work, because it won’t have the support of all the hourly workers.

      I’m assuming that Bernie and Co are smart enough to realize that, so they would make sure any bill that they wrote would cover that scenario that you’re describing, and not just waste all of our time.

      That’s why I believe the part of the article I quoted earlier is factual, and covers what you’re speaking about.