Dan Abel wrote:
> In article >,
> Kathleen > wrote:
>
>> sf wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:41:01 -0700, Dan Abel > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Frankly, garnishment doesn't work very well. The first response of an
>>>> employer is often to fire the employee.
>>>
>>> Why would that happen? It doesn't seem legal!
>> Because people with serious issues in their financial lives frequently
>> also have issues as employees. Transportation, attendance, attitude...
>> And when they impose an additional burden on their employers in the
>> form of administering a garnishment, it runs out just that much more of
>> their slack.
>
> Also, many of these people work in low paid retail jobs. If they are so
> financially desperate that they are having their wages garnished, they
> are possibly desperate enough to steal. What better place to steal than
> retail? It's already pretty rampant.
>

Dan - I will guess you just haven't been informed lately. But many
companies are hurting the people that work for them on the amount of
salary they make. Many of my friends have had the choice of take a
voluntary reduction of 15%, or they can hit the streets.

Not a retail issue, but I think many peeps are having pain points here.
They are either fired, or they are dealing with reductions in pay, or
that and reductions in benefits. Sometimes both.

Keep your ears open Dan

/not trying to be mean.