Wage and hiring freezes (wages, health care, Obama, companies)
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We have large, global office furniture company where I live and their employees all had to take a 17% wage reduction last year. This week they announced that they are restoring the wages back to their 2008 scale. They seem to think the economy is coming up again. My nephew was layed off from there around the same time as the wage cuts and just found another full-time job last month. He'd been living on a lot of short-term temporary jobs and day labor.
Last edited by Wayland Woman; 01-30-2010 at 06:05 PM..
Subsound, pretty rude! "have you been living under a rock?" Why did you bother to post....
LoL wow, if you are going to spend more time on blogs/message boards I really suggest you build a thicker skin. C-D enforces much nicer conduct then places like LJ or Consumerist, and I wouldn't even consider that rude for posts here.
It's also to point out the fact the dump has been going on for 2 years already, and all over the news. Both of the companies I have worked for in that time have been enforcing freezes and have been laying people off since middle 2008, closing open job positions well before then. Being ignorant of all of that happening around you for so long seems, confusing.
Some of the companies here are having wage and hiring freezes until the ecomomy picks up. Is this happening all over the states?
I'm not surprised. Businesses are doing what they have to to stay alive. And they do not know what Obama is going to be able to shove through, so there are a lot of unknowns. They cannot make plans, because they do not know what effect the government is goint to have on their business. So, they are just trying to survive.
They see Obama dictating all sorts of things to business, and they are scared. No one wants the government on their backs.
This is not a good time for American Business. Our founders believed that government should "promote the general welfare", meaning that government should do nothing to hinder business, and free enterprise, but everything to promote growth. That is not how Democrats see it. They think their job is to "regulate" (i.e. control business).
Government needs to just get out of the way. Then, we will see expansion in the economy, job growth, and prosperity. That's what Americans want. That's what we need to pull out of our current (government created) recession/depression.
Don't forget about across the board wage reductions and jacking up the health care that employees have to shoulder year over year.
Shut up and back to work *******s. At least you have a job.
...and having less people work overall, so one person is now doing the job of two or three. And performing multiple "titles".
For instance, I'm a hotel auditor-and also expected to now be a front desk clerk, hotel security (but I'm not allowed to be armed), and housekeeping and maintenance if necessary. But I only get paid as an auditor.
I was precisely told if I don't like, go somewhere else because there are other people who would gladly take my place. And it's true.
Just because people are lucky enough to have a job doesn't mean that the employer has a right to take advantage of them.
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