Instead of minimum wage, how about MANDATORY 90 day evaluations for job performance/wage increases?

Question

"Work Hard & Be Rewarded" is the carrot here.... you get accepted at a job, get a raise, get health insurance, then a year goes by, no evaluation, then you make noises about leaving, get a wage increase...no raise for a few years...no company-initiated evaluation/possibility of raise or at least "here's why we can't pay you more", meanwhile the company is doing great business, & so on & so forth, employers getting new cars & vacations abroad, etc....

The work environment is otherwise much nicer than in previous jobs, so .....

What's wrong with this picture?

Answer 1

You could always just quit. If people quit from lack of wages that would force the employers to give them. Don't just sit there taking it.

Answer 2

What we have now is kind of like a free market. People get paid based on their performance, or their willingness to leave to get more pay.

What you are proposing is kind of like what the auto workers unions had several years ago. Everyone starts at x, they get a raise to x+1, then x=2. Its all formula, so people lose the incentive to work harder than anyone else.

Answer 3

The company I work for (Kodak) has a formal structured plan that reviews and rates every one every year. You are measured by comparing your performance to your "peers" (other employees in similar jobs) and your pay adjusted according to how yours compares to theirs. Actually works quite well. I like it. (I've been there 22 years now...)

Answer 4

Yes, if only there were actual rules about how companies review their employees. It's all pretty vague.

It stinks, but there's nothing anyone can do about it.