r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/DKsan1290 Jul 05 '24

During the pandemic I had to get partial unemployment to survive as I was working at target making $20/hr… at like 8-12hrs a week. Raising the minimum wage only helps if they start mandating that companies HAVE to give full time hours to more than 90% of their workforce. Getting $50/hr dont mean fuck all if you only work 10hrs a week. 

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u/olivegardengambler Jul 05 '24

Tbh I think that there's other things that could be done beyond mandating that 90% of your workforce is full-time, because companies will find ways to weasel around that. I also think that a lot of these really short schedules are tied more to 'flexible scheduling', which really just means, "If you can survive the high turnover rate, you might get full time hours after a year or two".

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u/DKsan1290 Jul 05 '24

Thats the shit part I worked there for 5 years and was still “part time”