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Thread-Topic: Defining the Workweek, instead of higher minimum wage
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<FIRST>Laurens</FIRST>
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<LAST>Wright</LAST>
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<ADDR1>251 S. Main Street</ADDR1>
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<CITY>Spartanburg</CITY>
<STATE>SC</STATE>
<ZIP>29307</ZIP>
<EMAIL>laurens8455@hotmail.com</EMAIL>
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<SUBJECT>Defining the Workweek, instead of higher minimum wage</SUBJECT>
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(Let me say that it was an Honor meeting and talking
to you at the Beacon Restaurant Get together. This community
needs to appreciate and thank you for what you do for 
the people, the surroundings and for standing up for what is right.
I thank you and really appreciate what you do and where
you stand.)

To get to the point, this wage fight needs to be addressed,
for the person just getting out of high school, those ending
college, those that have been working for years and those in
dead-end jobs and for those that are being used by the 
corporate giants. To say the least, this minimum wage is just that: 

the lowest a company can pay a person that is doing the work. 


Now, if anyone is interested, the minimum wage does not have to
be changed, but the way that the United States sees a wage earner 
needs to be changed, for the good of the nation, for the employee
and for the people looking for higher paid jobs. Let us start with
demanding a defined work week, say Monday through Friday, with
Saturday and Sunday being paid differently. There are so many
companies that hire "managers" and "salary" people who are
worked to death, with their hours mounting over 100 hours per
week without compensation of pay. Most people do not want
to work Saturday and Sunday and these are the days that employers
demand that the lower wage earner work, just because those 
people have to work to make ends meet.


What the United States needs is for the people to be paid weekly,
with Monday through Friday, from 7 am till 5 pm being paid at                                      regular time, with anything over 8 hours a day, being paid over-
time at the rate of 1 1/2 times. Saturday would be double time and
Sunday would be triple time. In this way, there would be money
in circulation (not just 1 or 2 pay periods per month) and the money
would be in circulation longer. The companies would not be able
to use the system to work the people multiple hours in two weeks
without being compensated for the hours worked. The companies
would eventually hire more workers and not abuse the ones already 
working for them.


People need help these days and the employees are being abused 

and used by the corporate giants. It is a time for wage reform.

thank you,
larry wright
251 s. main street
spartanburg, S.C
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