01-23-2019, 06:00 AM
he pays his staff (gardening) over $20 an hour and they still cannot afford to rent a place to live
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Unless an employer is willing to add 90 cents in charity to the $2.00 that the person’s services are worth, the teenager will not be employed.
Let's take the large resorts on Kona side as an example and look at the current state of entry level pay in Hawaii. The maids, gardeners, cleaners, etc earn about $10-$15 an hour. Many of them get on a bus in Hilo at 3 AM for a ride to their jobs, so round trip their 8 hour day is 11-12 hours.
1) Do they make enough to pay rent or buy a house?
2) Would you consider their paycheck part "charity" as one Nobel Price winning economist described the wages of lower paid workers?
3) Would the hotel and management pay even less if they could find anyone who would accept a lower wage?
4) Do the CEO's make 8 figure salaries, and management 6 figure salaries?
The workers barely earn enough to cover basic necessities. One unexpected doctor bill or other emergency and they won't even manage that. The CEO's and management earn far more than they can ever spend, although I know, some of them sure seem to make a good run at it with private jets, multiple homes, lengthy vacations, designer everything, and much much more.
So in the case of our Kona resorts, would you say the executives include even a penny of "charity" in their workers weekly checks? Or are the hotel staff supplementing their bosses inflated pay package with blood, sweat, tears, and restless sleep on long bus rides through the night, while the CEO, CFO, or CIO glides somewhere high above them in a comfortable spacious plane, for a meeting with the manager at one of their international branches, family in tow because the discussions might last a week if the weather and golf are good?
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Unless an employer is willing to add 90 cents in charity to the $2.00 that the person’s services are worth, the teenager will not be employed.
Let's take the large resorts on Kona side as an example and look at the current state of entry level pay in Hawaii. The maids, gardeners, cleaners, etc earn about $10-$15 an hour. Many of them get on a bus in Hilo at 3 AM for a ride to their jobs, so round trip their 8 hour day is 11-12 hours.
1) Do they make enough to pay rent or buy a house?
2) Would you consider their paycheck part "charity" as one Nobel Price winning economist described the wages of lower paid workers?
3) Would the hotel and management pay even less if they could find anyone who would accept a lower wage?
4) Do the CEO's make 8 figure salaries, and management 6 figure salaries?
The workers barely earn enough to cover basic necessities. One unexpected doctor bill or other emergency and they won't even manage that. The CEO's and management earn far more than they can ever spend, although I know, some of them sure seem to make a good run at it with private jets, multiple homes, lengthy vacations, designer everything, and much much more.
So in the case of our Kona resorts, would you say the executives include even a penny of "charity" in their workers weekly checks? Or are the hotel staff supplementing their bosses inflated pay package with blood, sweat, tears, and restless sleep on long bus rides through the night, while the CEO, CFO, or CIO glides somewhere high above them in a comfortable spacious plane, for a meeting with the manager at one of their international branches, family in tow because the discussions might last a week if the weather and golf are good?
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