{"id":15976,"date":"2015-09-06T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T21:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=15976"},"modified":"2015-09-05T09:16:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T16:16:14","slug":"whole-foods-aint-that-great-to-its-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/09\/06\/whole-foods-aint-that-great-to-its-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Foods Ain&#8217;t <i>That<\/i> Great to Its Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/NicoleAschoff.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Nicole Aschoff\" title=\"Nicole Aschoff\" class=\"left\" \/><i>Whole Foods workers are better off than many retail and fast food workers. Permanent, full-time employees earn considerably more than minimum wage, and both part-time and full-time workers receive health insurance: part-timers working at least twenty hours a week can buy full-cost coverage after working 400 hours, and full-timers can get lower-cost coverage after working 800 hours. Executive pay is kept in check, relative to other major corporations, and the management structure is more horizontal than vertical. However, wages for many Whole Foods employees fall far below a living wage. Cashier wages range between $8 and hour to $14 for permanent employees, while workers in other parts of the store make between $10 and $15 an hour. Despite its claims that Whole Foods honors all stakeholders, many team members including full-time workers, are forced to rely on food stamps, and a recent study found that 17% of Whole Food&#8217;s Massachusetts employees are enrolled in Medicaid.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&mdash;Nicole Aschoff<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-Prophets-Capital-Jacobin\/dp\/1781688109\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=frankcurio-20\" rel=\"nofollow\">The New Prophets of Capital<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whole Foods workers are better off than many retail and fast food workers. Permanent, full-time employees earn considerably more than minimum wage, and both part-time and full-time workers receive health insurance: part-timers working at least twenty hours a week can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/09\/06\/whole-foods-aint-that-great-to-its-employees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Whole Foods Ain&#039;t That Great to Its Employees at Frankly Curious<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2015\/09\/06\/whole-foods-aint-that-great-to-its-employees\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whole Foods Ain&#039;t That Great to Its Employees at Frankly Curious\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Whole Foods workers are better off than many retail and fast food workers. 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