clean your house before looking for dirt elsewhere
in sg, i think the minimum wage is like $4/h. for those who complain about a "mcdonald's" salary, think about this. what i'm about to relate actually occurs in the US.
in most states, the minimum wage is like $5.50/h. i hear some of you say "but hey that's in US$s, so it translates into heaps more in terms of my $s." but think about it in terms of the economist's big mac index. click on the link if you wanna know what i mean. i don't wanna get into it. anyways, getting back to the story, in most states in the US, the employer does NOT have to pay that minimum wage if they can justify that the employee can make up that amount in other ways. let's use for an example, being a waiter. the employer will say that the waiter will get $X in tips on the average day. this amount is averaged over the hours they work per day, and they can end up paying the waiter something like $2/h. so, if business is slow that day, or it's generally off season for eating out, that's how much a waiter gets.
we have all these soscial activists campaigning against slave labour and sweatshops and child laboour in the 3rd world. i think they should take a look in their own backyard before they start looking overseas for trouble. seriously, if the company doesn't give your job priority, and thinks that you are dispensible, you'll probably end up with sweet FA of the american dream...
in most states, the minimum wage is like $5.50/h. i hear some of you say "but hey that's in US$s, so it translates into heaps more in terms of my $s." but think about it in terms of the economist's big mac index. click on the link if you wanna know what i mean. i don't wanna get into it. anyways, getting back to the story, in most states in the US, the employer does NOT have to pay that minimum wage if they can justify that the employee can make up that amount in other ways. let's use for an example, being a waiter. the employer will say that the waiter will get $X in tips on the average day. this amount is averaged over the hours they work per day, and they can end up paying the waiter something like $2/h. so, if business is slow that day, or it's generally off season for eating out, that's how much a waiter gets.
we have all these soscial activists campaigning against slave labour and sweatshops and child laboour in the 3rd world. i think they should take a look in their own backyard before they start looking overseas for trouble. seriously, if the company doesn't give your job priority, and thinks that you are dispensible, you'll probably end up with sweet FA of the american dream...
