Posted on 06/15/2015 7:55:20 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Saturday signed a law hiking the city’s minimum wage from $9 an hour to $15 by 2020, an increase that will affect hundreds of thousands of workers.
Garcetti, speaking in English and Spanish, told a crowd of hundreds at the signing event that he wanted to lift the city’s lowest-paid workers out of poverty.
"Too many Angelenos have been left behind even as we’ve put the recession in the rearview mirror," he told union representatives, immigration and activists at the ceremony.
The Los Angeles City Council approved the wage hike in May with a 14-1 vote. The law requires businesses with 25 or more employees to increase pay for minimum wage workers to $15 by 2020.
The pay hikes start in July 2016 with a jump to $10.50. Smaller businesses will have an extra year to meet the new minimums.
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“How is this even legal?”
Not sure that it is. I though “minimum wage” was a federal issue but with the courts acting the way they do, including the SCOTUS, who really knows for sure?
Obama has proven that the LAW means nothing. We will see.
“It is much better to enact a minimum-wage law even if it deprives these unfortunates of work… better that the state should support the inefficient wholly and prevent the multiplication of the breed than subsidize incompetence and unthrift, enabling them to bring forth more of their kind.” - Royal Meeker, U.S. Commissioner of Labor, under Woodrow Wilson
"The trouble with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money to spend. "
>>In other words, Garcetti signed a “law” which confiscates money from the owners of businesses and forcibly gives it to their employees.
More likely, he signed a law that forcibly increased prices within the city limits (taking money from consumers) and giving it to employees.
Even more likely, he signed a law giving money to other LA County municipalities, as well as OC communities...as a result of consumers fleeing LA for cheaper prices elsewhere.
Direct comparisons are very difficult:
In 1965 the SS rates were about 1/2 they are now. In 1965, nonunion entry level jobs had almost zero benefits but today many have sick time, vacation time, family leave time etc. In 1965, it was much easier to have casual labor to work under the table than it is now. Since 1965, Worker Compensation costs have doubled as a percentage of payroll.
They are working on it now. Trumka has the lead bon it. Just another way to get members...
Only in California........hopefully.
Poor people, Single mothers and minorities hardest hit........................
Yeah, right. Whatever you say.
Is this gonna insure I don’t get any ‘tude from the fast food servise technician behind the counter at macdonalds?....I seriously doubt it.
I worked during that time as a stock clerk, dishwasher, shoe sales person, assistant manager of a drug store and a clerk in a 7-11 type store.
I expect small business to flee out of California over the next decade.
They have been leaving in droves the last three decades.
I have worked minimum wage, never got ant benies at all.
Why not a maximum wage of $25.00 per hour for any job? That’s fair!!!!
say for like prostitution or drug dealing, it is illegal so the legal wage for it is infinity, in other words you can not do or sell it legally.. so what happen is a black market, paying under the table .
as you raise minimum wage, just like you raise price a black market develops.. that cut out the middle man.. the government tax man
I foresee new business opportunities for adjacent cities such as Culver City.
A “Dirty Plate Pick-up Service”.
Wash them outside city limits and return them the LA City restaurants.
wanted to lift the city’s lowest-paid workers out of poverty
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