The Minimum-Wage Controversy When receiving paychecks, most employees will agree that one can never be paid enough, however, their employers may disagree with that statement and believe that they are getting paid far greater than they are entitled to. Thus creating a conflictbetween minimum wages. Minimum wage is the least amount ofmoney that an employer may pay their employees. The federalminimum wage that is experienced by many members of theUnited States, currently is at $5.15, and is under debate as towhether or not it should be raised an additional dollar per hour, tomake the minimum wage $6.15 (1). As a result of dissatisfactionwith the minimum wage, debates whether or not the wage shouldbe lifted to please more workers are currently taking place. Theprocess to finding the perfect minimum wage to please bothemployee and employer are still under way, and has been animportant controversial issue for many decades.For many, a raise in minimum wage would be fantastic,mainly employees. For others such as employers, they look downupon the idea of increasing the salary for their workers. Theprocess for increasing the minimum wage would start by payingfifty cents more on January 1st of 2001, and adding the other fiftycents exactly one year later on January 1st of 2002 (1). “Throughthis proposal, it would allow for business tax breaks worth $76billion dollars over ten years, which is down from $122.7 billion inan earlier House version of the bill” (1). As unemployment hasreached a recent 30-year low, some employers are looking tochange this fact around by hiring in greater numbers (3). But asemployers may in fact do try to change this unemployment trend,this also means more money will be spent on trying to match theminimum wage. If they should try and match the minimum wage,the employer will be spending more money just to have moreworkers that he may not need. Say the minimum wage stayed thesame for a while, employment may n...
