Between the emergency of the pandemic and wage increases at the state level, we’ve never been closer to a national $15 minimum wage.
But the big weeks are rare, and if Hunt gets sick, or injured, or takes a mental-health break, he doesn’t get paid at all. He belongs to the 8.5 percent of California workers whom the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center calls the “unincorporated self-employed.”
Between the emergency of the pandemic and wage increases at the state level, we’ve never been closer to a national $15 minimum wage.
But the big weeks are rare, and if Hunt gets sick, or injured, or takes a mental-health break, he doesn’t get paid at all. He belongs to the 8.5 percent of California workers whom the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center calls the “unincorporated self-employed.”
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