Παρασκευή 29 Μαρτίου 2013

Scared of Minimum Wage Hike, Employer Considers Replacing Workers With iPads


And you're firedThe Wall Street Journal
reports
 that less than 2 months after President Barack
Obama announced plans to increase the Federal minimum
wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour, businesses are already
freaking out. The owner of a cupcake shop in Virginia Beach is
considering replacing 10 of her employees with tablets:



Carla Hesseltine is considering buying a few tablet devices for
her bakery so customers can place orders for her signature M&M
cupcakes on their own, straight from the counter.


The reason: She fears the $7.25 an hour that she currently pays
her 10 customer-service employees, mostly college students, could
rise, perhaps to $9 an hour under a pledge by President Barack
Obama earlier this month.


In order for her Just Cupcakes LLC to remain profitable in the
face of higher expected labor costs, Ms. Hesseltine believes the
customer-ordering process "would have to be more automated" at the
Virginia Beach, Va., chain, which has two strip-mall locations as
well as a food van. Thus, she could eliminate the 10 workers who
currently ask customers what they would like to eat.



Anecdotal evidence being exactly that,
here's Reason's Brian Doherty
 on the wealth of empirical
evidence that says minimum wage costs jobs. 

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