Judge gives go-ahead for ballot measure to raise Nevada's minimum wage

http://www.reviewjournal.com ^ | 01/20/2016 | By Sandra Chereb

[redreno]

CARSON CITY — A state judge Wednesday rejected arguments challenging language in a proposed constitutional amendment to gradually raise Nevada's minimum wage.

District Judge James Wilson said a coalition of business groups failed to show that a required description of effect was misleading or that language setting dates for when new minimum wage rules must be posted are inappropriate.

Attorneys Matt Griffin and Kevin Benson, arguing on behalf of the Committee to Preserve Nevada Jobs, argued that the explanation on what the initiative would do was misleading because it didn't explain that employers who violated minimum wage laws would be subject to triple damages.

"The description only says it provides for remedies," Benson said, adding the mere mention of it "simply is not good enough."

[Scooter100]

That should help unemployment, huh? Good move. /sarc

[CaptainAmiigaf]

You are REQUIRED, by law, to pay employees a state MANDATED minimum wage, whether or not the business can afford it.
You are NOT required,by law, to have any employees at all.
You do have the RIGHT to employ the absolute mininum number of employees possible.
That “judge” should have checked with the cities that have already mandated higher minimum wages and the resulting vanishing of long existing jobs.

[aquila48]

Let people set their own wages - what could go wrong?

[Mastador1]

AHH, Nevada, haven’t been there for well over a decade, don’t gamble but we used to go for shows sometimes. We stopped because we saw all the shows we cared to see but most importantly because of all the unemployed wetbacks shoving ads for porn business in our faces, blocking the streets, stealing whatever they could. I don’t see how upping the minimum will do anything but add to that.

[Jvette]

It is already the law in Nevada that the minimum wage in the state is $1.00 higher than the federal minimum wage. What more do they want?

There was a time when this would have gone down in a sound defeat at the voting booth. Now, I’m not so sure. The influx of losers from other states bringing their stupid liberalism with them has changed this once great libertarian state blue.