Reply #62: Minimum wage, sound like you are a corporate slave master! [View All]

[SanCristobal]

:-)

Stories like yours are part of the reason I don't support the minimum wage. It's a feel good legislation that has an overall negative affect on those it is supposed to help.

It sounds like you run a great place to work, it is too bad you have to let someone go. You offer good benefits to your employees, you could cut those if you don't want to fire anyone. I would put it to your employees, talk to them privately and ask them if they would rather keep their job with fewer benefits, or risk loosing it to keep their benefits and wage increase. See what their consensus is, it might help make a hard decision easier.