GOP Politician Proposes 4 Month Training Wage In Lieu Of Minimum Wage. WHAT GALL!

[TheMastersNemesis]

GOP wants to allow employers to pay a new hire a training wage for 4 months well below the minimum wage. The employer would have not obligation to keep that employee after the training period.

These chiselers are really imaginative. They always have a twist that fucks the vulnerable.

Source Alternet.

[cvoogt]

1. ooooh why not have 'internships'

that'll be even cheaper

[SummerSnow]

2. They truly hate the American worker with a passion

[antiquie]

9. Minimum wage is for entry level jobs. ~ nt

[Kali]

10. hmmm

this sounds like right-wing justification for paying crap wages to workers to me. polite and well written, but right wing just the same.

[woo me with science]

11. And the influx continues....

The influx of corporate propaganda-spouting personas is steady and unnatural:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4216987
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3189367

States that build surveillance machines also build propaganda machines.

[gopiscrap]

3. asshoile republicans

always looking for ways to fuck over the American worker and people wonder why they need unions and NEED TO BE VOTING DEMOCRATIC!

[Savannahmann]

4. This was Reagan's legacy

I started working at age 16 in the 1980's. At the time, minimum wage was $3 and some change. When I got hired, I was informed that the labor laws allowed untrained workers to be paid $2.85 an hour if memory serves. This went on for a few weeks until I had enough hours to eclipse the requirement and be considered "trained" and thus eligible for Minimum wage. I want to say it was 100 hours, but it may have been more. This was a long time ago, and I haven't thought of it since that time honestly.

So I've seen this before, and I've lived through it as a teenager.

[Schema Thing]

5. Ok. And while we're at it, the minimum wage is $15 and the training wage is $7.50

And you don't have to keep the employee, but you have to pay them 2 months salary if you decide not to keep them.

Great idea, GOP.

[ck4829]

6. That's a little longer than what a lot of of contracts temp agencies have

I hear about 3 months is the usual length of time they have.

And I'm sure any new job the temp agency has for you would also mean new 'training'.

[Springslips]

8. Can we have a link?

It certainly sounds like something the GOP would do, or something from the Onion; they are indistinguishable now a days. I want to know the who, what, when, where about it.

[TheMastersNemesis]

13. Lost Link May Have Disappeared Already. Looking For Post.