My daughter handles job applications for a company. She told me at the last opening there was ($10/hr, 40/week, benefits) there was over 500 applications.
in other words, the true market price of labor in your area is much lower than $10/hr.
probably held artificially high by regulators.
No. My own wild guess, though a wild guess tempered by a couple years of HR management jobs, is that the people must be applying on some dying career.
I worked as a manager in a security firm at different times during college (including off semesters to pile up cash to pay for the damn thing), over here guard jobs were worth around 13$. Woop-dee-fucking-doo I hear you say, 13$ to watch paint dry.
However, the amount of people that came in with CVs full of manufacturing experience (even some at technical or regular college levels) that were ready to take a 50%+ (90% in some cases) cut in salary just so they could get more than welfare was staggering, and yeah, I actually had to shut out an astounding amount of people.
Same goes for recent immigrants with educational background not recognised by my local professional orgs. I had a site literally staffed with post-doctorates that were in the process of doing n amount of college years required to get back up to spec.
Let me guess, during those types of transition periods you'd be against gov't support?
Now, before you get all high and mighty, I live in Quebec. Have a look at the platform of the most popular up and coming party:
http://www.quebecsolidaire.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/QS-Plateforme-2012-anglais-.pdfI don't like retarded regulations. I don't like that pretty much half my salary goes up in taxes. But if you think that I can conceive for a second that welfare needs to be pulled wall to wall, just wow.