Latest Minimum wage News
Trump is proposing to make tips tax-free. What would that mean for workers?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's new proposal to exclude tips from federal taxes is getting strong reviews from some Republican lawmakers, though major questions remain about the impact of the policy and how it would work. What's certain is that a change in the...
Massachusetts high court rules voters can decide question to raise wages for tipped workers
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts' highest court has tossed out a challenge to a proposed ballot question that would raise the minimum wage businesses must pay to workers who rely on tips and permit tip pooling among both tipped and nontipped employees. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled...
Maine governor's vetoes sustained while lawmakers address late spending proposals
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine lawmakers sustained vetoes of bills to institute a minimum wage for farm workers and to ban so-called bump stocks that allow a gun to mimic a machine gun on Friday as they attempted to dispatch unfinished business including 80 late spending proposals. ...
Campaign to raise Missouri's minimum wage to $15 an hour confident it will get on the ballot
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters on Wednesday got a step closer to getting to decide whether to raise the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour, after a group behind the effort said it turned in nearly double the required number of signatures. The ballot measure backed by...
Maine governor vetoes bill to create a minimum wage for agricultural workers
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's Democratic governor vetoed on Tuesday a bill to establish a minimum hourly wage for agricultural workers that she initially submitted herself. Gov. Janet Mills proposed setting the minimum wage for farm workers at $14.15 per hour. That is the same as...
New Mexico reaches settlement in 2017 wage-theft complaint after prolonged legal battle
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico labor regulators on Tuesday announced a legal settlement that resolves longstanding accusations of unpaid wages against a restaurant business in northwestern New Mexico. The Workforce Solutions Department said in a news release that 505 Burgers...
Louisiana lawmakers reject minimum wage raise and protections for LGBTQ+ people in the workplace
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Measures failed in a House committe Thursday that would have gradually increased Louisiana's $7.25 an hour minimum wage and make discriminating against LGBTQ people in the workforce illegal. The outcome of the two bills was unsurprising, after similar...
Uber and Lyft delay their plans to leave Minneapolis after officials push back driver pay plan
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft said they will delay their planned exit from Minneapolis after city officials decided Wednesday to push back the start of a driver pay raise by two months. The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to implement the...
California schools forced to compete with fast food industry for workers after minimum wage hike
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lost in the hubbub surrounding California's new $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast food workers is how that raise could impact public schools, forcing districts to compete with the likes of McDonald's and Wendy's for cafeteria workers amid a state budget crunch. ...
New $20 minimum wage for fast food workers in California set to start Monday
LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Most fast food workers in California will be paid at least $20 an hour beginning Monday when a new law is scheduled to kick in giving more financial security to an historically low-paying profession while threatening to raise prices in a state already known for its high...
