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Some small farms are not required to pay minimum wage and in 15 states farms aren't required to offer workers' compensation.
-Some CNN article posted on ontd_political
This is another thing that annoys me. Why do we have federal and state minimum wage laws if there are so many exceptions? I understand that a small farm may just basically be family, so were these laws originally written to say that family farmers don't have to make formal arrangements to pay relatives? Otherwise, why shouldn't a formal job not have formal pay and workers' compensation? Why do restaurant waitstaff work under a different minimum wage and then live on the kindness of strangers? I'm really against all of these exceptions. I feel like they're only there to uphold the tradition of people in these jobs being undervalued.
-Some CNN article posted on ontd_political
This is another thing that annoys me. Why do we have federal and state minimum wage laws if there are so many exceptions? I understand that a small farm may just basically be family, so were these laws originally written to say that family farmers don't have to make formal arrangements to pay relatives? Otherwise, why shouldn't a formal job not have formal pay and workers' compensation? Why do restaurant waitstaff work under a different minimum wage and then live on the kindness of strangers? I'm really against all of these exceptions. I feel like they're only there to uphold the tradition of people in these jobs being undervalued.