Minimum Wage in the State of Georgia

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Minimum Wage in the State of Georgia
Minimum wages can be described as the minimum sum of cash that a company is obligated to pay wage staff for the labor accomplished during a given time, which is not subject to reduction by joint contract or an individual agreement. Georgia has one of the lowest minimum wages and is unfavorable to employees. A minimum wage has to be fair in that neither does it exploit the employer nor the employee. It has to be fair for both parties so that the intended positive outcomes can be attained. This paper will argue that reducing the minimum wage in Georgia will lead to more adversities than benefits, and to this fact, I believe: because of several factors described below.
Reasons
There are several impacts of minimum wages on employees. The workers that will receive the minimum wage will be trapped in poverty (Kharazishvili et al. 22). The income they are supposed to receive will be way too low to cater to their day-to-day needs and, even worse, their basic needs. It will lower their standards of living and let them drown in poverty. Where will their families get food from? Don't you see them sleeping on empty stomachs? Who would not love their families to get access to health facilities and an excellent educational system? After all, a good book is like a friend. Some needs such as education and health will be impossible to afford, thus depriving them of some of their rights.
In addition, every citizen's obligation taxes will be more of a hurdle to these employees (Kharazishvili et al. 13). Their pockets shall be too shallow for them to even pay for the taxes. It inevitably causes the employees to work harder and longer than they should be, in more than one job to make ends meet. Thus, causing them to work inefficiently. In the end, the goods or services produced will be mediocre and low in quality.
Moreover, it will lead to the exploitation of employees (Zubiashvili et al. 128). The hard work put in by self-driven and hardworking employees will be unmatched by the paychecks some of them receive. The skills and education some of them have should mean that they will get a high wa...