It only makes sense that the lowest paid and some of the hardest working people in Washington state are not driven further into poverty and left behind the rest of us in the event of inflation. Minimum wage workers average 47 weeks of work per year and 28.7 hours per week. That s the point of this initiative. Minimum wage workers are underpaid for the value of their work. In 1968, the value of the minimum wage was one and one-half times greater than it is now.
Businesses don t hire workers for charity.
They hire workers to help make a product to sell for a profit. If the worker does not add adequate value to the product, he or she is laid off. At the present time, many employers are simply using the minimum wage to underpay their workers. That is not right.