Rather than paying a living wage, Broward college has decided to distribute food bags to their employees. 50 bags for 500 employees 👍
(They do regularly do this for students too)
First of all, I 💯 agree with you that all employees should be paid a living wage!
Obviously some people will fall on hard times despite what they’re paid, so it’s good to have this service in general. Let’s hope not too many employees have to utilize this on the regular.
This is a public community college in Florida. If it’s anything like my public university here in North Carolina, the state probably allocates the salary budget through legislation, and the school itself has very little (if any) say in what employees earn. So, unless I’m mistaken, the blame for the living wage argument would rest solely on the state; and if that’s the case, I would give kudos to the college for offering this service in spite of the state.
teft@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A place I worked for always had “turkey drives” for the poorer families around thanksgiving. I wasn’t popular because i would ask why we as a company can’t pay every employee enough to cover a turkey but i never got an answer.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I ask the same shit whenever giant multi billion dollar companies canvass and harass me for money to feed the poor…
Like bitch, your company made more money then every customer currently in here for 5 minutes, then we collectively see in a year. They can fucking pay for it.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Goes for tipping too. Fuck you, pay fair. Dont ask me to support your staff with charity.
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not only do they guilt you into contributing to their charity of choice, but the company also 1) get to be the ones whose name is attached to those donations, 2) gets a tax break as a result, and 3) talks themself up on their website about how much they donated to the cause.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Seriously?? I’ve only ever seen turkey drives as a charitable thing for the community, not internal to a company. Craziness