Say you are a company that builds and operates large retail stores, selling consumer goods at desirable prices and that you have been successful across the land. Let’s call you … oh, Walmart.
Now, let’s say you want to open some stores in Washington, D.C. and that, in accordance with the law, you are prepared to pay minimum wage for entry and low-level employees. This is known, in the trade, as “how you do business.”
Well, you have a problem. Washington, D. C. does not want your lousy minimum wage jobs. (Or you, it seems.) To keep you out, it passes a law requiring you to pay wages well above minimum as defined by law and which, interestingly, is more than the city’s lowest paid employees.
According to a recent and hastily passed law, you must pay $12.50 an hour. Meanwhile, according to the D.C. Department of Human Resources:
Surprised? Shocked?
Don’t be. It’s D.C.
