I can agree with that. But why have you got yourself in such a confrontational situation with your employees? It sounds like they feel threatened by you. Take more time to sell them into your company when you employ them and those problems will decrease.
Perhaps my tone makes it sound worse than it really is, I have a fine working relationship with my employees.
But, if the government or some sort of union was going to force me to pay all of them more, I would have to let one go.