"My main thrust against this is that you’re taking opportunities away from junior-level team leaders who develop and become senior-level team leaders. I have a team leader in my plant. Twenty years ago she was scanning in shirts and pants. She worked on the line. Then she progressed to a junior-level salaried position; now she’s at a senior level. Typically, team leaders that are junior level are salaried. It provides a proving ground where they can develop and grow. If labor gets that much more expensive, companies won’t have the luxury of this proving ground, and fewer people will be ...