LongTermGuy
05-06-2015, 04:27 PM
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`Pizza shop worker Devin Jeran was excited about the raise that was coming his way thanks to Seattle’s new $15 an hour minimum wage law. Or at least he was until he found out that it would cost him his job.`
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`Owner Ritu Shah Burnham said she just can’t afford the city’s mandated wage hikes.
“I’ve let one person go since April 1, I’ve cut hours since April 1, I’ve taken them myself because I don’t pay myself,” she told Q13. “I’ve also raised my prices a little bit, there’s no other way to do it.”
Small businesses in Seattle have up to six more years to phase in the new $15 an hour minimum wage, but even though she only has 12 employees, Z pizza counts as part of a “large <nobr>business franchise (http://redalertpolitics.com/2015/04/30/pizza-shop-worker-loves-seattles-new-15-minimum-wage-finds-cost-job/#)</nobr>.” As a result, she is on a sped up timeline to implement the full raise.
“I know that I would have stayed here if I had 7 years, just like everyone else, if I had an even <nobr>playing (http://redalertpolitics.com/2015/04/30/pizza-shop-worker-loves-seattles-new-15-minimum-wage-finds-cost-job/#)</nobr> field,” she said (http://q13fox.com/2015/04/28/owner-of-pizza-shop-says-new-minimum-wage-law-is-forcing-her-to-close/). “The discrimination I’m feeling right now against my small business makes me not want to stay and do anything in Seattle.”
http://redalertpolitics.com/2015/04/...ijQOxwOABHO.99 (http://redalertpolitics.com/2015/04/30/pizza-shop-worker-loves-seattles-new-15-minimum-wage-finds-cost-job/#4agVOijQOxwOABHO.99)
`Pizza shop worker Devin Jeran was excited about the raise that was coming his way thanks to Seattle’s new $15 an hour minimum wage law. Or at least he was until he found out that it would cost him his job.`
************************************************** ************************************************** *******
`Owner Ritu Shah Burnham said she just can’t afford the city’s mandated wage hikes.
“I’ve let one person go since April 1, I’ve cut hours since April 1, I’ve taken them myself because I don’t pay myself,” she told Q13. “I’ve also raised my prices a little bit, there’s no other way to do it.”
Small businesses in Seattle have up to six more years to phase in the new $15 an hour minimum wage, but even though she only has 12 employees, Z pizza counts as part of a “large <nobr>business franchise (http://redalertpolitics.com/2015/04/30/pizza-shop-worker-loves-seattles-new-15-minimum-wage-finds-cost-job/#)</nobr>.” As a result, she is on a sped up timeline to implement the full raise.
“I know that I would have stayed here if I had 7 years, just like everyone else, if I had an even <nobr>playing (http://redalertpolitics.com/2015/04/30/pizza-shop-worker-loves-seattles-new-15-minimum-wage-finds-cost-job/#)</nobr> field,” she said (http://q13fox.com/2015/04/28/owner-of-pizza-shop-says-new-minimum-wage-law-is-forcing-her-to-close/). “The discrimination I’m feeling right now against my small business makes me not want to stay and do anything in Seattle.”
http://redalertpolitics.com/2015/04/...ijQOxwOABHO.99 (http://redalertpolitics.com/2015/04/30/pizza-shop-worker-loves-seattles-new-15-minimum-wage-finds-cost-job/#4agVOijQOxwOABHO.99)