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On Wednesday, December 11, the Los Angeles City Council approved a motion to amend the Living Wage Ordinance, which regulates wages for airport workers, and the Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance, which regulates wages for...more
After a contentious six-hour meeting, the Los Angeles City Council voted 12-3 in favor of increasing the hourly wage of approximately 23,000 hotel and LAX workers to $30. The $30 minimum wage will go into effect in by July...more
During the Los Angeles City Council’s meeting on November 20, 2024, the council discussed whether to approve proposed amendments to the Living Wage Ordinance and the Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance. The amendments would...more
On Wednesday, October 23, the Los Angeles City Council’s Economic, Community Development, and Jobs Committee unanimously voted to advance a proposal to the full City Council that would raise the minimum wage for hotel and...more
July 1st Minimum Wage Increases Each year on July 1st, a number of local municipalities and the County of Los Angeles raise their hourly minimum wage, based on changes to the consumer price index, and as required by local...more
On July 1, 2023, a number of local municipalities and the County of Los Angeles will be raising their hourly minimum wage, based on changes to the consumer price index, and as required by local minimum wage ordinances....more
The City of Los Angeles will increase the minimum wage rate by $.74 as of July 1, 2023. The new City minimum wage will be $16.78. This new wage must be posted at the workplace in English and any other language spoken by at...more
On July 1, 2022, a number of local municipalities will be raising their hourly minimum wage, based on changes to the consumer price index, and as required by their minimum wage ordinances. Beginning July 1, 2022, the...more
Over the past two years, city councils in three of the four largest cities in Texas — Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas — each have passed ordinances requiring local employers to provide their employees with paid sick leave. In...more
For over a year, New York State employers harbored concerns that New York State would enact rules that would eliminate their ability to apply a tip credit towards the wages of employees who earn tips. ...more
On July 1, the City of Los Angeles will raise the minimum wage for employers with at least 26 employees to $14.25, and for employers with fewer than 26 employees to $13.25. In determining whether this increase applies to a...more
The Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, has ruled that the Arizona State Legislature overstepped its authority in 2016, when it prohibited Arizona cities and other municipalities from enacting their own employee benefits...more
The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a Miami Beach law that would have raised the minimum wage in the city. This ends a lengthy legal battle over whether cities could set their own minimum wages that do not correspond...more
On December 20, 2018, Mayor Jim Kenney signed an ordinance that will raise the minimum wage for all Philadelphia municipal government workers, contractors, and subcontractors from the current rate of $12.20 per hour to $15.00...more
Employers who are covered by the Chicago and/or Cook County Minimum Wage Ordinances should prepare for increases that go into effect next week on July 1, 2018. ...more
In recent years, cities, counties, and other local government bodies across the country have enacted ordinances increasing the minimum wage, granting paid and unpaid sick leave, placing restrictions on how employees are...more
Beginning January 1, 2018, the new California minimum wage rate for employers with 26 or more employees will be $11.00 per hour and the new California minimum wage rate for employers with 25 or fewer employees will be $10.50...more
On December 13, 2017, a Florida district court of appeal held that Miami Beach violated Florida law by enacting a local ordinance increasing the minimum wage. According to the court, Florida law prohibits municipalities from...more
An appellate court has denied Miami Beach’s latest effort to establish a mandatory minimum wage for employees in that city. Earlier this year, Miami Beach’s minimum wage law, which was intended to raise the mandatory...more
In March 2017, Governor Branstad signed HF295, a bill standardizing Iowa’s minimum wage at $7.25 and preventing municipalities from adopting a minimum wage different from the Iowa standard. Background - Over the last...more
Just days after Cook County passed its Paid Sick Leave Ordinance on October 5, 2016, several Cook County suburbs began the process of opting out of the law. So far, four have successfully done so. On November 15, 2016,...more
On Monday, December 19, 2016, Ohio Governor John Kasich signed Senate Bill 331, which prohibits municipalities and other political subdivisions from raising the minimum wage beyond Ohio’s state minimum wage rate, currently...more
On September 24, 2013, the New York City Council unanimously passed an amendment to the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) that expands prohibited discrimination in employment based on pregnancy, childbirth, or a related...more