Hobby Lobby hikes minimum wage to $14 an hour for full-time hourly employees

[Still Sensible]

Source: NewsOK

Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. has boosted its minimum wage for full-time hourly employees for the fifth straight year, now paying those workers at least $14 an hour.

Those workers previously earned a minimum of $13 an hour.

The minimum wage for part-time employees rose to $9.50 per hour, up from $9. This marks the fourth consecutive year the firm has hiked the wage of part-time hourly workers.

The move will raise the pay of more than 17,726 workers nationwide. The Oklahoma City retailer's new minimum wage for full-time hourly employees is 93 percent higher than the national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.


Read more: http://newsok.com/hobby-lobby-hikes-minimum-wage-to-14-an-hour/article/3786377

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While Hobby Lobby is a very conservative company and takes the wrong side on issues like contraception coverage, you have to applaud them for giving employees a reasonable hourly wage.

[secondwind]

1. impressive. K&R

[winter is coming]

2. Good news about the minimum wage, but I still can't imagine working there.

The Christian muzak is crazy-making.

[cyberswede]

20. But you'd always get Sundays off

[winter is coming]

21. True. I wonder why they don't play a muzak version of "Never On Sunday".

[HockeyMom]

3. Couldn't pay me $100/hour to work there

Besides if their female employees are not using BC acccording to Hobby's "conscienous" objection and breeding like rabbits, how long will they keep their jobs.

Male employees and post menpausal women are probably Hobby's most likely employees.

[Ilsa]

4. The employees can use contraception, but

I guess the company won't pay for it unless the courts rule that they must.

[Yo_Mama]

9. To correct misconceptions

Their insurance does pay for standard BC pills. It does not cover Plan B.

Of course, they don't control what their employees do.

[sir pball]

26. My ins. doesn't cover plan b either, not because of any moral reasons but

Because it's OTC.

I haven't asked around but I can't imagine any plan would cover it, for just that reason. Unintended consequences..

[Yo_Mama]

27. Well, I am not sure if it will be covered under Obamacare

Although I think making it OTC makes sense.

[Kelvin Mace]

5. $14 hour for full time employees? You mean both of them?

Seriously, what is the ratio of full to part-time?

[earthside]

8. My thoughts exactly.

Now, they probably have many full time employees at their main office.

But if the Hobby Lobby near me is typical, I'll bet they don't have more than one or two full time managers per shift.

Which raises another question: does this include 'management' employees?

If it doesn't then I'll wager there aren't more than three or four full time employees in the whole store!

Count me as skeptical that this isn't anymore than a public relations ploy on the part of Hobby Lobby.

[Yo_Mama]

10. I'm pretty sure it's over half the workers

I know at one point when they had 21K workers total, 13K were full-time.

I've never been in one of these stores - all I know is from news reports and court cases.

[rsmith6621]

23. BINGO

WE HAVE A WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER

[riqster]

6. They can use the money to pay for birth control nt

[Ash_F]

7. Good, now for the rest of the country. /nt

[blm]

11. Few are full time employees there and only if they are committed RWers

along the same lines as the owners.

[Safetykitten]

12. I would bet, and probably would win that...

Each store has one full time manager, two full time assistant managers, and two floor people that are full time. The rest, probably 30 people are part-time.

[olddots]

13. what they have done is become news worthy

I wouldn't know hobby lobby from poody doody but now progs and devos know a little bit more .

I guess they're a mall hobby shop chain that sell seasonal gift making crap from China along with everything from china .

We have a chain called Micheal"s in so cal. bet its part of or partnered up with Hobby Lobby hoping to be a Wal-Mart sub division of slavery central.

[Safetykitten]

15. To call them a hobby shop is an understatement.

They occupy extremely large buildings that many in the past, during better times were supermarkets or big box stores. There is one a mile away from me. Very clean, very orderly and they have pretty much everything.

What they do not have is much staff. On any given day, there would be maybe seven people in the store. I know this from the shopping experience.

[KamaAina]

14. So $1.40 of that goes right back to some woman-hating, gay-hating church

No thanks.

[NaturalHigh]

16. Why would you assume that?

[KamaAina]

18. If their employees are good god-fearing Xtians who tithe

there you go.

On the other hand, we KNOW that any profit that accrues to Hobby Lobby finds its way to the enemy. So perhaps it is best that a few crumbs fall to people who might actually spend it on food 'n' rent 'n' stuff.

[underpants]

17. Are they employees or are they - like FedEx - not actually employees

Almost all of the FedEx employees that you see everyday are paid an hourly wage as contractors.

They are not FedEx employees. They pay the full 13% Social Security tax themselves, have to buy their healthcare insurance as individuals, and their own unemployment insurance.

[Omaha Steve]

19. I wish they sold things made by Americans

At least 90% is imported from child labor countries like China.

[AnnieBW]

22. I Still Won't Shop There

I know where people like me (Pagans) aren't welcome. And besides, their bead selection SUCKS.

[Pterodactyl]

24. Hobby Lobby is great. They have a great selection and the staff is always helpful.

[moobu2]

25. That's great but I still wont spend a dime there.

I refuse to support right-wing Christian Republicans if I don't have to.