Tl/Dr: agency offers my less qualified daughter $20/hr but can't actually hire her, only offers me $12/hr
My daughter applied for a job as a home health aid worker. She has no experience in the field of health care, doesn't have a reliable car and has three children under the age of five (two under the age of two) that will likely affect her attendance when the daycare can't take them because Covid-19 exists and everyone is paranoid. The starting salary was $20/hr, but she has a felony conviction on her record so she can't get hired until she gets it expunged. Fair enough, she says. But she suggests that maybe I should apply instead since she has to wait until she finishes probation and she'll just keep working at her current job.
So I go in to pick up the application. We chat a bit and schedule the interview. I have 30+ years of health care experience, held a professional license in another state(though it's expired now) have 2 fully operational vehicles and my children have all grown and left the nest. On my way out the door she calls out, “by the way, the position pays $12/hr. Is that a problem?” I said, “Uh, we'll talk about that on Friday.”
Fast food pays $12/hr and you don't run the risk of getting arrested for a false allegation, though…