It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
Paying your employees well is not only the right thing to do but it makes for good business.
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?
Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
I get paid to work; I don't pay to work.
I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.
There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom.