California’s $15 minimum wage may mean more automated jobs | The Sacramento Bee

Boosting minimum wages will, indeed, prod employers to find ways to reduce their labor forces and thus, as the UW study found, may decrease “total employee earnings,” but those who can hold onto their jobs may, indeed, as the UC Labor Center declares, see their incomes rise and their retirements become more secure. If that’s the outcome, the losers won’t be employers or their employees but those who don’t get hired because their potential jobs have been eliminated by automation, such as that order-taking kiosk in Pismo Beach. While politicians habitually tout only the upsides of their decrees,…

Read more detail on Recent Legal Theory posts –

This entry was posted in Legal Theory and tagged , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply