Thread: Minimum Wage is Going Up July 1, 2019!

The Minimum Wage in Chicago & Cook County is Going Up July 1, 2019!

Posted by Kaitlin DeCero on June 28, 2019

• We marched.
• We rallied.
• We shared our stories.
• We took direct action.

And we won higher wages across Chicago and Cook County!

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On July 1, 2019 the minimum wage will increase in Chicago and in Cook County.

-Chicago minimum wage as of July 1: $13 per hour
-Cook County minimum wage as of July 1: $12 per hour

SEIU members teamed up with coalition partners and fought tirelessly to win these increases and tens of thousands of our members will get a raise as a result.

We aren’t wasting any time in keeping the pressure on to keep lifting up our communities. Earlier this year, we helped win a new statewide minimum wage that will increase gradually until reaching $15 per hour on January 1, 2025. In Chicago, we are also working with a coalition to win a new $15 per hour minimum wage across the city as soon as possible.

“As we celebrate these increases in Chicago and Cook County, we are looking ahead to winning $15 in the Chicago next! Working families, whether white, black or brown, are coming together like we did in the past to raise wages so we can all thrive. This is a step forward, but we have more work to do!”

http://www.seiuhcilin.org/2019/06/28...p-july-1-2019/

Here's what happens to the minimum wage in NJ starting July 1

Nicholas Pugliese, North Jersey Record
Published 5:00 a.m. ET June 27, 2019

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July 1, hundreds of thousands of New Jersey workers are scheduled for a raise.

Earlier this year, Gov. Phil Murphy and legislative leaders announced a deal to raise New Jersey’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. The law incrementally increases the minimum wage, now $8.85 an hour, to $15 an hour by 2024 with a few key exceptions for seasonal workers, employees at businesses with five workers or fewer and agricultural laborers.

The first increase is slated to go into effect in July for many workers. Here's what New Jersey's path to $15 an hour looks like.

NJ minimum wage increase schedule

The schedule for wage increases for most workers is as follows:

• $10 on July 1
• $11 on Jan. 1, 2020
• $1 increase every subsequent Jan. 1 until it reaches $15 in 2024
• Wage increases would then be tied to the consumer price index for all urban wage earners and clerical workers, or CPI-W, taking effect on the first of every year

Starting in 2020, employers would be able to pay “training wages,” equal to at least 90 percent of the minimum wage, for the first 120 hours of work by people enrolled in a training program.

Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, D-Middlesex, said previously that the training wage is meant to “soften the impact of the new wage schedule on new employees who are not yet working at full capacity.”

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Key exceptions

Under the bill, a seasonal worker is defined as someone whose job falls only in the window of May 1 to Sep. 30, while a small employer is any business with five workers or fewer. The wage schedule for these workers is more drawn out:

• $10.30 on Jan. 1, 2020
• $0.80 increase every subsequent Jan. 1 until reaching $14.30 in 2025
• $0.70 increase, to $15, on Jan. 1, 2026
• Wage increases would then be tied to the CPI-W, plus a little extra so that the minimum wage for these workers is the same as the first group by 2028

Agricultural workers

Farm laborers will have to wait even longer to reach a $15 wage. Their schedule:

• $10.30 on Jan. 1, 2020
• $10.90 on Jan. 1, 2022
• $0.80 increase every subsequent Jan. 1 until reaching $12.50 in 2024
• Wage increases would then be tied to the CPI-W

In 2024, the heads of two state departments, Agriculture and Labor and Workforce Development, would have to study whether to raise wages further for agricultural workers. If they can’t agree, the governor would nominate a tie-breaking member subject to Senate confirmation.

Tipped workers

Tipped workers would see their take-home pay increase to $15 an hour by 2024 under the bill, although how that happens would be different from other groups.

Tipped workers must earn at least the minimum wage through a combination of tips and salary. Wages that employers are required to pay are set to increase from the current floor of $2.13 an hour to $5.13 an hour by 2024.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/ne...19/1546076001/

July 1, 2019 Minimum Wage Increases in California Counties and Municipalities

Wednesday, June 26, 2019


Many California employees received a raise on January 1, 2019 when the state increased the minimum wage to $12 per hour for large employers (26 employees or more) and $11 per hour for small employers (25 employees or fewer).

Effective July 1, 2019, several counties and municipalities in California are adding to these minimum wage increases. The amount of the increase varies by city and county, and some local governments make a distinction between large and small employers. Hotel workers in places like Long Beach, the County and City of Los Angeles, and Oakland are entitled to wages significantly higher than the minimum wage for other types of employees. The following chart summarizes these changes.

Jurisdiction	Pre-July 1 Minimum Wage	July 1 Minimum Wage
Alameda	$11.00 / $12.00 (small / large employer rate)	$13.50 (all employers)
Berkeley	$15.00	$15.59
Emeryville (56 or more employees)	$15.69	$16.30
Emeryville (55 or fewer employees)	$15.00	$16.30
Freemont (26 or more employees)	$12.00	$13.50
Long Beach (hotel workers)	$14.64	$14.97
City of Los Angeles (26 or more employees)	$13.25	$14.25
City of Los Angeles (25 or fewer employees)	$12.00	$13.25
City of Los Angeles (hotel workers)	$16.10	$16.63
County of Los Angeles Unincorporated (26 or more employees)	$13.25	$14.25
County of Los Angeles Unincorporated (25 or fewer employees)	$12.00	$13.25
Malibu (26 or more employees)	$13.25	$14.25
Malibu (25 or fewer employees)	$12.00	$13.25
Milpitas	$13.50	$15.00
Oakland (hotel workers without benefits)	$13.80	$20.00
Oakland (hotel workers with benefits)	$13.80	$15.00
Pasadena (26 or more employees)	$13.25	$14.25
Pasadena (25 or fewer employees)	$12.00	$13.25
San Diego	$12.00[1]
San Francisco	$15.00	$15.59
San Francisco (government supported employee)	$13.27	$13.79
San Leandro	$13.00	$14.00
Santa Monica (26 or more employees)	$13.25	$14.25
Santa Monica (25 or fewer employees)	$12.00	$13.25
Santa Monica (hotel workers)	$16.10	$16.63

[1] Effective January 1, 2019, for large and small employers. San Diego does not have a scheduled minimum wage increase for July 1, 2019.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article...municipalities

Oregonians Will Receive a Minimum Wage Increase On July 1

Across the state, workers will be getting a small boost in their paychecks, on track to earn $13.50 by 2022

(Abby Gordon)By Abbey McDonald |Published June 18 Updated June 18On July 1, 2019, Oregon will increase its minimum wage by 50 cents, following 2016 legislation which will deliver the state's lowest paid workers annual pay increases through 2022.That legislation divided the state into three zones for pay purposes.The 2019 raise will give workers in the Portland Metro area $12.50 per hour, while rural counties will see $11.00. Other counties, such as Lane, Hood River and Josephine, will get the standard rate of $11.25. (These figures come from the Oregon Employment Department.)The legislation included annual raises which will reach a standard $13.50 per hour in 2022. After that, the rate will be adjusted for inflation annually based on the Consumer Price Index.Other states, including Washington D.C., Delaware and Michigan, will see rate increases in 2019. D.C. will have the highest rate in the nation at $14.00 an hour.In Multnomah County, 7.1 percent of people work for minimum wage. This percentage varies from county to county, but it adds up to hundreds of thousands of paychecks across the state which will see a boost this July. https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/06/18/oregonians-will-receive-a-minimum-wage-increase-on-july-1/

Beginning July 1, 2019, the minimum wage in the District of Columbia will increase from $13.25 per hour to $14.00 per hour for all workers, regardless of size of employer. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the “Fair Shot Minimum Wage Amendment Act of 2016 into law on June 27, 2016, after unanimous passage by the D.C.Council.

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Why does Las Cruces have a higher minimum wage than El Paso?

by John Purvis
Friday, June 28th 2019

El Paso, Texas — In an earlier post, I explained why the minimum wage in El Paso isn't likely to go up anytime soon in response to a viewer's question.

One big reason for that is because the state of Texas doesn't allow municipalities to set a minimum wage for private employees that's above the state's minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

But it's a different story in New Mexico, where cities can require a minimum wage that's above the state-mandated minimum.

For example, this year's New Mexico Legislature approved a hike in the state's minimum wage from $7.50 an hour to $9 an hour next year, eventually going up to $12 by 2023.

But the minimum wage in Las Cruces is already at $10.10 per hour.

Albuquerque and Santa Fe also have minimum wages above the state's base wage.

Before Las Cruces raised its minimum wage in January, some local business owners tried to get the city council to change course, saying the higher minimum wage the city began implementing five years ago was forcing some small businesses to cut back on employees, or even close down.

But the city has stuck with its plan to raise the pay of Las Cruces' lowest paid workers.

https://kfoxtv.com/community/just-as...e-than-el-paso

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