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Two states have minimum wages below that number, and five don’t have a minimum wage. Wolf continuously has pushed to raise the Keystone State’s minimum wage to $12 an hour and eliminate the $2 ...
[nb 5] In 2023, the California State Legislature passed a law on a new minimum wage for fast food workers at $20.00. The new minimum wage took effect on April 1, 2024. It affects the following restaurants: Has little to no table service; Part of a chain of at least 60 locations nationwide; Sells food and beverage for immediate consumption
The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
In 1989, Senator Edward M. Kennedy introduced a bill to increase the minimum wage from $3.35 per hour to $4.55 per hour in stages. [51] Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole supported increasing the minimum wage to $4.25 per hour along with allowing a minimum wage of $3.35 an hour for new employees' first ninety days of employment for an employer. [51]
This is $4 more than the state's overall minimum wage. While the new law is intended to improve the financial well-being of the state’s fast food workforce, TV personality Mike Rowe argued that ...
He said the process is being steered by two relatively new chairs who are still learning on the job: U.S. Reps. Glenn "GT" Thompson (R-Pa.) and David Scott (D-Ga.).
In the United States workers generally must be paid no less than the statutory minimum wage.As of July 2009, the federal government mandates a nationwide minimum wage level of $7.25 per hour, while some states and municipalities have set minimum wage levels higher than the federal level, with the highest state minimum wage being $9.47 per hour in Washington as of January 1, 2015. [5]
California's minimum wage for most workers in the state is $16 an hour. Voters will decide in November whether to increase the rate gradually to $18 an hour by 2026, which would be the highest statewide minimum wage in the U.S. Fast food workers in California now have to be paid at least $20 hourly under a law Newsom signed last year.