McDonald’s corporation doesn’t actually employ all its fast food workers, the franchise owners do. Franchise owners are free to pay their workers more. Some do, such as in high cost of living areas where they’d otherwise be unable to hire anyone.
Sure, for new franchise owners, write it into the contract, done. Getting existing owners to change their contracts would probably be more expensive and difficult than just adding on to their existing lobby efforts.
But what they actually want is for their customers to have better pay, if they could have everyone except their employees earn more they’d advocate for that but even they must realise that’s too hard a sale.
It’s a problem of competition. If they raise salaries and their competitors don’t then they’re at a disadvantage with higher costs. So they want the government to make everybody raise salaries.
You know… You could just choose to pay your employees more. You don’t need to petition the government to change the minimum wage to do that…
McDonald’s corporation doesn’t actually employ all its fast food workers, the franchise owners do. Franchise owners are free to pay their workers more. Some do, such as in high cost of living areas where they’d otherwise be unable to hire anyone.
Surely McDonald’s can create a floor for pay that franchise owners cannot go below…
Sure, for new franchise owners, write it into the contract, done. Getting existing owners to change their contracts would probably be more expensive and difficult than just adding on to their existing lobby efforts.
But what they actually want is for their customers to have better pay, if they could have everyone except their employees earn more they’d advocate for that but even they must realise that’s too hard a sale.
It’s a problem of competition. If they raise salaries and their competitors don’t then they’re at a disadvantage with higher costs. So they want the government to make everybody raise salaries.
wHy dOn’T eMPloyEes hAVe cOMpanY LoYAlTy? anYmOre?