By Oktober 2022, Germany will increase the minimum wage from 9,6€ to 12€ per hour. The minister of work explains this measure as follows: a) it rewards those who kept the economy afloat b) it speeds up economic recovery A nice step in the right direction imo. Source: Government. https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/suche/mindestlohn-faq-1688186
I was somehow not aware of how absurdly much my boss was asking of me for little compensation until a few years ago, and it got more pronounced and obvious during covid. I've been at my job for the majority of my working life, since I was 22, in 2008. I was hired for 12.50/hour (in a major city) and I currently make 16.50/hour (last raise was 2 or 3 years ago). I have no benefits and only 5 vacation days and 2 sick days a year. Minimum wage here is 15/hour. The job is for an increasingly small company. When I started, there were 30+ employees, I was one of 2 or 3 for the past 7 years, and then I've been the only employee (most of the time) since 2020. I keep many parts of the business running entirely by myself and have a number of areas of…
So I’ve been with a company for 5 years and have only received ONE raise within that time frame. With inflation happening and living in an expensive city, I asked if I would be getting one. I am in good standing with the company, have never been written up ect. I was told that giving the employees raises is “not a good business model” and that “overpaying” the employees would sink the company. I make $20.00 dollars an hour….in LA.
for the last few months our organization has been talking about doing an “equity wage adjustment” which would include a liveable wage. the adjustment is supposed to come through on our paycheck this month. However, I was told by coworkers that the upper management are still having meetings about the new wage. Including a meeting that happened at one of our establishments. My coworkers were talked down to when asked about the wage adjustment by someone from human resources. They were told that the organization can't keep up with the cost of living and that people get to choose where they live. What the fuck is the point then? I love my job and it's so disappointing to see from somewhere that I thought would be different. I guess I'm just very naive.
I don't know why. But my mom's coworker dying in his mid 50s just was one of the last straws before I quit my office job. It made something click. You can work your whole life and “delay gratification” and wait for the golden retirement/vacation… only for you to die before it. This happened over 4 years ago but I still think of it often. That someone can die in the middle of a workweek and all they had was the weekend. There is no such thing as stability either.
Don't even get me started on the Chinese buying houses they never live in. You love the Chinese and won't even admit they put people in concentration camps tho.
I and nine others were recently “let go” at the start of the month by a truly toxic work place – seeing things from the outside helped me realize how extremely toxic they were. With that, my final paycheck seemed to be a little lite, and it took me ages to sort out the maths they used… Being salaried they divided up each post period by 15 days including weekend instead of just the actual working days. Having put in a full 40 hour week my final week, and being paid for 3/4 of the time. This didn't sit well with me, so I made inquiries with HR at my former employer, and they have me some BS run around excuse for a couple days with no clear results. After reading many times about wage theft on here, I read up briefly on final paycheck rules in Wisconsin, and informed…