Assignment:
Minimum wages are normally associated with unskilled labor or apprentices. Because you support fair trade and local, sustainable, and organic products, you feel compelled to be fair to your less skilled staff and decide to pay them above minimum wages. In the long run, do you think you will benefit from your decisions to be "fair"?
Write 250 words about how you will compensate your less-skilled staff. You must include answers to the following questions:
- Is unskilled labor really unskilled?
- Do you believe minimum wages are necessary to protect the interests of the employee or the employer?
- In the long run, do you think you will benefit from your decisions to be "fair"? Why? Why not?