It ain’t perfect, but it’s an acknowledgement that economic conditions – and costs of living – differ across the country depending on the region one may be working in. Representative Terri Sewell of the Alabama 7th Congressional District has proposed a federal regional minimum wage that may be gaining some traction in the democrat-controlled US…
Read More »It could be called a tale of three directions when we look at minimum wage actions in Arkansas, Florida and Maryland within the past two weeks. As we’ve advised in past issues, the Maryland General Assembly has been advancing minimum wage legislation to hike the state minimum to $15/hour by 2025 and just last week,…
Read More »To nobody’s surprise, the House Education and Labor Committee voted 28-20 along party lines to advance a Democratic bill more than doubling the current federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. The committee’s Democratic majority also voted in lockstep to kill 7 different Republican amendments before sending the bill out to the House floor. The…
Read More »Since we last updated our readers on minimum wage increases just a few weeks ago, there has been still more movement in a number of states toward the $15 per hour level. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, who has been brandishing his progressive credentials by signing a host of liberal measures, signed a new $15…
Read More »The Raise The Wage Act, federal legislation filed by US House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA), was the subject of the Committee’s first major public hearing of the year yesterday. The legislation (H.R. 582) filed earlier this year with much fanfare and 181 House cosponsors, would more than double the current…
Read More »The Florida Supreme Court rejected local minimum wages this week when it dismissed an appeal brought by the city of Miami Beach. Recall that Miami Beach passed its own minimum wage in excess of the state minimum (currently $8.46 per hour as of 1/1/19) back in 2016, setting a local minimum wage that would gradually…
Read More »As we predicted over the past few weeks, New Jersey gave its official blessing to more minimum wage increases up to $15 per hour effective by 2024 yesterday when both branches of the New Jersey legislature passed S.15 and sent it on to the Governor. The bill has enjoyed support from Governor Phil Murphy for…
Read More »After battling all through last year over the issue, democrat NJ Governor Phil Murphy agreed with the democratic-controlled legislature on a bill that will lead to a state minimum wage of $15 per hour as soon as 2024. Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, who has not always seen eye to eye with Murphy, finally brokered the…
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Plastic straw bans, predictive scheduling, and the increasing use of automation in quick-service restaurants. These are some of the trends Dunkin’ and other quick service franchisees can expect to be hearing more about as we head into 2019. The big Democratic gains in the mid-terms are the biggest new development on the political and regulatory…
Read More »Congressional democrats this week filed legislation seeking to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024. The proposal, known as The Raise the Wage Act of 2019, was filed in the House by Education and Labor Committee Chairman Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) and co-sponsored by 181 other democratic members. The bill, which…
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