With the passage of Assembly Bill 10, California minimum wage workers will receive a 12.5 percent raise from $8.00 to the new rate of $9.00 beginning July 1, 2014. California’s minimum wage will increase again January 1, 2016 to $10.00 per hour. But is California’s Minimum Wage Increase Enough? The increase, which California Governor Jerry […]
Incidents of workplace bullying are on the rise, but what do you do when the offender isn’t an employee? Who is responsible? Such a case was recently brought to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Freeman v. Dal-Tile Corp. Freeman states that while she worked for Dal-Tile, she was subject to […]
Above and beyond, that’s what the City of Richmond, California was striving for as they passed a minimum wage ordinance that would create a citywide minimum wage reaching $12.30 per hour by 2017, if the ordinance achieves final approval in May. Beginning in 2018, the rate would be tied to Consumer Price Index to allow […]
The nearly 155% increase moves Minnesota from the bottom four U.S. states with lowest minimum wage rates. Minnesota’s minimum wage rate will increase in stages beginning in August 2014, eventually reaching $9.50 per hour by 2016. Beginning in 2018, the rate would be indexed to the implicit price deflator to help Minnesota workers’ wage keep […]
Citing efforts to strengthen Maryland’s middle class, Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law SB 331, which increases the minimum wage in Maryland to $10.10 in stages by 2018. January 1, 2015: $8.00 per hour July 1, 2015: $8.25 per hour July 1, 2016: $8.75 per hour July 1, 2017: $9.25 per hour July 1, 2018: $10.10 per […]
Effective January 2017, Connecticut minimum wage workers will receive the highest state minimum wage rate in the U.S. The Connecticut General Assembly passed legislation raising the State’s current $8.70 per hour minimum wage in each of the next three years to $10.10 in 2017. 2014: $8.70 2015: $9.15 2016: $9.60 2017: $10.10 Governor Daniel Malloy […]