Well yeah but that’s a separate issue.

We could have had both.

This would be better if inflation didn't exceed the raises

Because they want more money, even if it screws over employees.

Enough so-called "small business owners" (but, really all businesses) complained about it to Baker, and the legislature.

The "compromise" was to raise the minimum wage, and eliminate time and-a-half on Sundays.

At the time, the argument here on reddit, was, "Why should you get paid 1.5x on Sundays just because its Sunday?"

And the answer is that Sunday was historically recognized as a 'Day of Rest', because it was church day--a day to pray, be with family, read the bible, and in the before times, laborers worked six days a week, went to church on Sunday, and then sometimes worked the latter part of Sunday after church was over, too.

As the economy transitioned from agrarian to manufacturing, and the labor movement pushed for eight-hour work days, weekends, and other labor rights, enough politicians felt that if someone till had to work on Sunday, that was time away from their family, and they should be justly compensated for it.

As church attendance waned, corporate propaganda increased, and local communities atrophied, Sunday became less and less a sacred day / automatic day off, and eventually the time came when corporations felt they were able to make the move to strike time and-a-half from workers' rights.

The End.

This is literally the answer. And it’s clearly better to have $15 every day than to have $12.15 once a week.

They didn’t sneak it in, it was a deal. The minimum wage was 8.10 an hour, with time and a half at 12.15 on Sundays and holidays. The deal was that minimum wage would be raised to $15 over the course of 4 years and the time and a half for Sundays would go away. You might argue they should have done both, which fine I don’t disagree.

But if a compromise was needed, this was a pretty good one. I remember having to fight over Sunday shifts for that extra cash. Now you just earn more than you ever did back then on any day of the week.

We could just stop working on Sundays.

It was a compromise to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour

It was part of the "grand bargain" to increase minimum wage a few years ago. I think that was also when paid family and medical leave was passed. It's not directly connected but was all included in the same bill to get enough legislators to vote for it.

The business lobby won. We can still fight back. It does not have to be gone forever.

Let's not bring Peyronie's into this, please.

"I'm not impressed." Infectious Disease MD

We really do have to fight to get his back.

You picked a bad day to stop monogamy! (bad Airplane reference)

But they are losing out, any loss of profit to them is a problem

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Oh no, will someone please think of The Villages!!

That’s fine and dandy. The difference to me is that this particular “blue law” benefits thousands if not millions of hardworking people. Why take that away?

That’s what I’m trying to understand. Clearly the extra pay was and is good for workers. So, if companies aren’t losing out because of it, why take it away?

Fucking hilarious.

No, companies were plenty rich before. They just wanted to be richer.

Fuck you, Baker.

Just like how you can now buy alcohol on Sundays, the state is trying to roll back their Blue Laws

I got a yellow marker right here

No.

Was there a problem before with companies not being able to save enough?