To: President Donald Trump
Profits after People - Empower the SEC
Require the Securities and Exchange Commission to alter the rules of corporate governance such that they may not retain or distribute profits until all employees are paid a living wage for the locations in which the corporation does business. Likewise, put a hard upper limit of 20% on the number of workers who may be employed "part-time" as a way to avoid providing full-time employee benefits.
Why is this important?
How is a company that does not pay its employees a living wage permitted to say it is profitable? Simple; they pass their costs of doing business on to us as taxpayers (food, healthcare and shelter for their employees) and take the bare subsistence money that should be going to their workers and give it to the shareholders instead. Enough. A company isn't "profitable" if it's workers need to rely on welfare for survival.