"Roughly 77 percent of NYC restaurants have slashed employee hours. Thirty-six percent said they had to layoff employees and 90 percent had to increase prices following the minimum wage hike"
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/new-york-city%E2%80%9...
A few years ago at my old job I finally got a big raise from $14 to $24/hour. Then almost immediately reduced to part-time from full-time but the same duties. I toughed it out hoping for a reversal but one day I was abruptly laid off without notice. Then three people were hired to do my job.
It seems business have no realistic view of employees. You're merely an "FT" or "PT" in manager parlance.
Working minimum wage is more difficult than it was years ago due to it being stuck at a specific rate for decades. But hours worked is just as important and the trend to cut everyone to part-time was an even bigger disaster.
Even the Fight for Fifteen group has been fighting for $15 for many years. They should be adjusting the rate for inflation, by now it should probably be $17.
This means the same job could have been performed in less amount of time? If so, why not employers are incentivised to increase the efficiency and raise the pay at the same time?
This place was notorious for reducing employee benefits to nothing. Employee reviews but the employee is at max pay rate so no bonus but still reviewed. No holiday parties. Overtime change from over 8 hours to only over 40. And on and on.
It was just a terribly run organization and I'm glad I'm out of it. There was a big exodus of long term staff in a short period of time just after I was laid off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Interest
I totally forgot about this scandal/conspiracy against the US until looking up the source. The leadership is also almost entirely famous neocons you've seen on trial.
Besides that, there are plenty of problems with the isolated statistics presented in the article, as they are worded to be deceptive.