HK major fast food chain hit back minimum wage

lionnoisy SG

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Employer have many way to by pass minimum wage.

HK major fast food chain Cafe De Coral increase hourly wage.

But then deduct the lunch time as NO PAY,citing other peer have doing the same!!

The only way that minimum wage will work is that SG government

1. mandatory employers to hire certain numbers of staff . AND

2. NEVER fire them!

BTW, one of fast food chain in HK already buy a tickets vending machine to replace

cashier. thanks to the passing of minimum wage laws in HK!!

HK Cafe De Coral show other major fast food chains in Hk also adpot

No pay lunch time for part timers!

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Junyang700 SG

LOL... Singapore full time and part time workers dun even get paid during lunch hour lor...

But then your suggestion "never fire them" will not work. What if the employee takes the pay and doesnt work. As colleague you gonna cover for the lazy worker?

gasband SG

I was never a supporter of minimum wage system. It looks good on the outside for people who are getting paid lower than the proposed level of minimum wages but brings about other issues that people usually do not care about until they happen.

However, this cafe de coral issue in HK is also very controversial. The problem was that the chairman of this chain is also in the provisional minimum wage commission. He has always been against raising the minimum wage and yet he sits in that commission. It is disgusting when I read in the local HK newspapers and news programs on how he mentions that by increasing the wages, the costs will be higher and they will be "forced" to find alternatives...in another way, that is a threat. And another program went on to mention how much the CEO and Chairman each earned, millions and millions and yet they have the cheek to say increased costs is a problem for the chain.

I accept that developed economies will have rich-poor gap and is pretty much every man for himself but to be as stupid as putting this guy in the commission is the dumbest thing the HK government yet has done again as with their housing issues.

βέτά SG

For Singapore, they usually deduct off your meal time.

likeyou SG

I think most of the employers are like that.

Help the company to save cost, yet earn big fat salary.

Junyang700 SG

Yah... I have never heard of one that does not deduct.

Junyang700 SG

Big eats small. Thats capitalism. =)

I-like-flings(m) SG

come on.. no matter how stupid hk government are... they are also not as stupid as PAP to increase our GST to "help the poor" right?

likeyou SG

come on.. no matter how stupid hk government are... they are also not as stupid as PAP to increase our GST to "help the poor" right?

We have another new tax coming too: Carbon.

Junyang700 SG

We have another new tax coming too: Carbon.

LOL... Initially i thought the tax was for cars.

I-like-flings(m) SG

We have another new tax coming too: Carbon.

hmmm and dun tell mi... it's to "help the poor" again right?

gasband SG

well before you think our tax is ridiculous, how about norway with their Co2 tax, metal tax, sugar tax

likeyou SG

hmmm and dun tell mi... it's to "help the poor" again right?

Last night the news saying using the carbon tax to pay something for the green...I am thinking wtf....pub already got gst tax, why this carbon tax? Tax plus tax...wtf!

If 1 household have alots of electrical applicances, that is their business, so long they can pay, what is their (pap) problem? Now, they (pap) going to have carbon tax and told the pple about going green, you (pap) thought we pple are idiot and stupid?

We already squeeze very very tight, now still squeeze us somemore? You (pap) see us happy, you (pap) feel not happy is it?

Hey, no wonder, many companies are following pap leadership footsteps.

ditzy SG

True, we don't get paid for lunch.

likeyou SG

True, we don't get paid for lunch.

Hey...I really never think of that.

How about part time workers? Lunch will not be included?

dragg SG

companies are overpaying the top management. that is the real problem.

Zweiz SG

The only way that minimum wage will work is that SG government

1. implement lots of rules and enforce them, actively find out who's abusing loopholes etc etc, work harder basically

or, they could NOT implement minimum wage, no extra work and they still get paid millions.

likeyou SG

Sadly spore dont have any min wage, if have, we will not find many low wage foreigners taking over local sporean.

But, now, when you go supermarket or coffee shop, there will have foreigners workers cos they can work very very low salary.

So, if this problem exists in spore, spore will not have any min wage scheme.

dragg SG

Sadly spore dont have any min wage, if have, we will not find many low wage foreigners taking over local sporean.

But, now, when you go supermarket or coffee shop, there will have foreigners workers cos they can work very very low salary.

So, if this problem exists in spore, spore will not have any min wage scheme.

i dont understand why prices still continue to rise even after they imported a lot of FWs at lower wages.

angel7030 SG

Well, they have to operate at a bigger profit margin, but getting lower wage FW and bring prices of goods down is not going to make any differences with getting singaporeans, the trick here is to get Cheaper and Faster FW so as to get Better return by increasing prices, inflation at 3 to 4%, so high, oh my gosh!

In singapore, singaporeans earning $3000 is consider poor, but to FW, it is a MD paid