Who knew minimum wage law reduces employment
July 08, 2005
Link: Catallarchy.
ACORN, a group that crusades for the minimum wage, has been trying to pay its employees below the minimum wage for years. Ad hominem attack, right? No, there’s more to it:
In a suit ACORN filed to exempt itself from California’s minimum wage laws, the organization wrote in its brief:
“As acknowledged both by the trial court and California, the more that ACORN must pay each individual outreach worker–either because of minimum wage or overtime requirements–the fewer outreach workers it will be able to hire.”
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