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State minimum wages differ. See link within. - sm

Posted: Nov 30, 2014

Why is it fair that the base pay, if we will now be paid at minimum wage, not discriminatory because some states pay more and others less? After all, we are all doing the same job.

I happen to live in a state (not California or western states) where the minimum is higher than, say, others, states in the South as an example. Yet, every day, the individual MT no matter where they live gets up, goes to work, fulfills their commitment to this slave labor camp aka Nuance. Does it make you comfortable that other MTs will be starting at a baseline less than yours? It does me.

The God I serve is a just God, one who demands always a balanced scale. He does not discriminate and He shows no favortism. In Matthew 20: 1-13, in the parable of the workers in the vineyard, God gives to each worker the wages they agreed to. That's fair. He is God after all. Keywords here are agreed to.

However, none of us agreed to minimum wage. We agreed to a specified cpl at employment. We are paid on our production, not minimum wage, as our basline. With all the factors that will count against us in this new and exciting plan, we could very well end up with less than minimum wage for all our effort.

How fair is this, I ask you?

California min wage still equals poverty. - Thank you for your comments.

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I love your quote from Matthew. Unfortunately, it appears that the people at Nuance do not have Christian values or moral values for that matter. How these people can live with themselves is completely beyond my comprehension.

I do not think min. wage will be the base pay - sm message

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They were just saying they have to pay minimum wage because they legally have to do so.

I believe the base will be the same for everyone, probably around 5-6 cents per line. It's a win-win for them.

I also believe this is all a big plan devised to send more work offshore. They play with our heads with these "announcements" with no details for months, change everyone's work and or TSMs around.

There is absolutely no stability or security or sense of team or even caring anymore. It gets harder to log in each day.

They want us to quit. And I think they will most likely get what they want.

Since they don't want to pay any more than - min. wage, base pay will likely be -

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lower, and everyone will have to scratch and scramble to bring it up to minimum wage.

There has to be a base cpl disclosed - MT

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If not how could they hire people and give offer letters. No one would take a job with no money offered. They have everyone here b/c you are already employed. No one I believe if they were sane would accept anything without knowing what it paid. How could a person base their bills, house payment, car payment on nothing? This is crazy. I think the cpl will be so low it will be shocking and it will require a lot to bring it up. For example now this is an example only not real life... if they say 2 cpl VR and in order to get the 4 cpl or 5 cpl VR you have to excel in different areas. That is my guess. They can make it 1 cpl. They can do anything they want. It is at will employment. But what I wonder is how do they get new people to come in unless they are third world country with that low a base rate... get my drift.

minimum wage - sm

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Part of the reason minimum wage varies by state is that the cost of living is different by state. If the minimum wage were equal in all states, THAT would be unfair.

You should substitute the word "God" for - the word "GREED".

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