Employee income stays the same as whole foods raises to $15/hour pay and slashes hours while requiring the same amount of work done in fewer hours.
So employees get paid the same for contributing the same value. They just have to do so faster now.
How is the same pay now a "livable wage"? It's almost like those demanding arbitrary raises to arbitrary dollar amounts per hour don't understand how this works.
“... the overall store budget thus remained about the same despite the wage increase.
The employee also said that workers were directed to complete tasks faster to stay in line with their new hours"