But that's confusing two "we"s. The customer/bystander, and the franchise owner(s). So when you ask "what do we expect", well, largely we expect our food to be prepared promptly as ordered, for a decent price, and we remain totally ignorant of the details.
I am generally in favor of minimum wage laws, provided they come with certain restrictions. But I'm still bothered by the essentially "at will" nature of the relationship between an employer and an employee. Basically, if the pay isn't good enough, don't accept the job. If you do accept the job, then making an outside appeal only makes sense if there are extenuating circumstances, for example the employer is the only one in town. (Though I bet "only one in town" is horribly flexible in court.) I'd happily apply a minimum wage law to stop Wal-Mart from paving over an entire community's home-grown businesses and leaving only poverty in its wake. But just saying, "It's hard as hell, these people deserve more for how hard they work," isn't a very good case to my ears. Entire sections of the economy have grown, withered, and died, with an attendant change in wages, and I'm sure all those people worked like hell the entire time, even as their work evolved right out from under them.
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Date: 2016-04-04 07:26 am (UTC)I am generally in favor of minimum wage laws, provided they come with certain restrictions. But I'm still bothered by the essentially "at will" nature of the relationship between an employer and an employee. Basically, if the pay isn't good enough, don't accept the job. If you do accept the job, then making an outside appeal only makes sense if there are extenuating circumstances, for example the employer is the only one in town. (Though I bet "only one in town" is horribly flexible in court.) I'd happily apply a minimum wage law to stop Wal-Mart from paving over an entire community's home-grown businesses and leaving only poverty in its wake. But just saying, "It's hard as hell, these people deserve more for how hard they work," isn't a very good case to my ears. Entire sections of the economy have grown, withered, and died, with an attendant change in wages, and I'm sure all those people worked like hell the entire time, even as their work evolved right out from under them.