DC passes $15 minimum wage measure

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The D.C. Council unanimously approved a plan to ratchet up the city’s hourly minimum wage to $15 on Tuesday, and Mayor Muriel E. Bowser pledged to sign the measure into law, likely lifting low-income pay rates in the District to among the highest in the nation within four years.

The District’s hourly minimum, now $10.50, would rise to $15 by 2020.

After that, annual increases would be automatic and tied to inflation.

To assuage the District’s powerful restaurant-industry lobby, D.C. lawmakers have demanded that tipped workers’ pay rise by a smaller amount.

Tipped workers’ base rate would increase from $2.77 an hour to $5 an hour and would be tied to inflation. Employers in the District would remain responsible for paying employees the difference between their base pay and minimum wage if tips do not make up the balance.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/deal-reached-for-15-minimum-wage-in-dc-unions-say/2016/06/07/cff3dd66-2c2a-11e6-9de3-6e6e7a14000c_story.html

 

[christiefan915]

Good for them. Our mayor is going to do the same for city workers even though he's spreading it out over five years.

 

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Cawacky should be along soon to explain how civilization as we know it will collapse if poor working people are paid more.