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最低賃金ではやっていけない McDonald's Can't Figure Out How Its Workers Survive on Minimum Wage

2013年07月19日 01時16分07秒 | Weblog
McDonald's Can't Figure Out How Its Workers Survive on Minimum Wage
In a financial planning guide for its workers, the company accidentally illustrates precisely how impossible it is to scrape by on a fast food paycheck.
JORDAN WEISSMANNJUL 16 2013, 11:39 AM ET


 アメリカのマクドナルドが従業員用に家計簿プランのようなものを作ったみたいなんですが、





As Jim Cook at Irregular Times notes, the $1,105 figure up top is roughly what the average McDonald's cashier earning $7.72 an hour would take home each month after payroll taxes, if they worked 40 hours a week. So this budget applies to someone just about working two full-time jobs at normal fast-food pay. (The federal minimum wage is just $7.25 an hour, by the way, but 19 states and DC set theirs higher)

A few of the other ridiculous conceits here: This hypothetical worker doesn't pay a heating bill. I guess some utilities are included in their $600 a month rent? (At the end of 2012, average rent in the U.S. was $1,048). Gas and groceries are bundled into $27 a day spending money. And this individual apparently has access to $20 a month healthcare. McDonald's, for its part, charges employees $12.58 a week for the company's most basic health plan. Well, that's if they've been with the company for a year. Otherwise, it's $14.



Of course, minimum wage workers aren't really entirely on their own, especially if they have children. There are programs like food stamps, Medicaid, and the earned income tax credit to help them along. But that's sort of the point. When large companies make profits by paying their workers unlivable wages, we end up subsidizing their bottom lines.



 そのプランによると、マクドナルドの給金レベルの仕事をフルタイムで2つもたないと暮らしいけず、しかも、そのなかには、光熱費は入っておらず、また、家賃は月600ドルになっているが、アメリカの平均家賃が1048ドル、さらに、ガソリン代や食料費は、毎日27ドルのこづかい費に含まれ、さらに、月20ドルの健康保険に入ることになっているが、マクドナルドの従業員は週13ドルないし、14ドルの保険に加入させられている、と。

 大企業が従業員が暮らしていけないほどの微々たる給料しか払わないので、それを補う補助金をわれわれがしなくてはならない、と。



FRIDAY, JUL 19, 2013 12:09 AM +0900
Get a clue, McDonalds: The other insult no one’s talking about
McDonalds got heat for telling its staff to have two jobs. But its financial planning advice is even more offensive
BY PAUL CAMPOS


In other words, the poor don’t need financial advice: they need higher wages. Yet apparently The Market – our all-seeing, beneficent Market, which declares that it is right and just that some men should have billions, while others sleep under bridges – has decided that higher wages for the working poor are an offense against all that we hold sacred.



 そもそも、こうした家計簿プランを作るというのは、従業員を馬鹿にしている、と。ワーキングプーアというのは働き者で、かつ、すくない給金を綿密に割り振って節約生活をしている。貧乏人は怠け者で、馬鹿だという前提が間違っている。

 必要なのは、お金の使い方の助言ではなく、賃上げなのだ、と。


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