The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has conducted ninety-four investigatiofs of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's since 2004, and found more than a thousand violations, including paying below minimum wage, withholding pay, altering time cards, and not paying overtime.
In a joint statement, the country's largest unions said that President Nicolas Sarkozy's government "had categorically refused to increase the statutory minimum wage, to alter his policies in the field of public service employment," and that the government's response to the crisis was wholly inadequate.
In a joint statement, the country's largest unions said that President Nicolas Sarkozy's government "had categorically refused to increase the statutory minimum wage, to alter his policies in the field of public service employment or to rescind tax exemption on overtime," and that the government's response to the crisis was wholly inadequate.
That said, changes in workers' wages due to varying competition may stem from two different sources: Either varying competition triggers wage changes for on-going jobs, i.e., for given worker plant pairs, or wages change due to altering worker composition.
Looking at the Die Zeit report, Felix Huefner, a German economist in charge of global economic forecasting at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, said "higher wages won't alter Germany's downwards demographic trend".
However, long-run effects, which we cannot identify given the short time horizon of our data, may be larger as it may take some time for employers to alter wages.
As plants' discretion to alter wages in response to changes in competitive pressure should be more limited if they are bound by a collective agreement or if they have a works council, we analyse whether the competition effect is stronger in the sector with none of these types of worker representation (which in Germany is usually referred to as the codetermination-free sector).
If this is the case empirically, then in this range of the wage premium, altering the premium will have little impact on intent to migrate.
But critics of the Suffolk law say that while the principles behind it may be noble, it is unwise to alter wage structures without carefully analyzing how many workers will be affected and how much it will cost the county and how the increases may indirectly affect county residents.
Bumper sticker slogans touting the "livable wage" will not alter that reality.
