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Seattle's minimum wage ordinance started to take effect on the 1st of April 2015. Under the policy, small businesses (500 employees or less) would have a wage of $15 per hour by 2021. A temporary "compensation responsibility" of $15 per hour would have been established for small businesses by 2019. Businesses are able to fulfil this ...
A 2018 University of Washington study which investigated the effects of Seattle's minimum wage increases (from $9.50 to $11 in 2015 and then to $13 in 2016) found that while the second wage increase caused hourly wages to grow by 3%, it also caused employers to cut employee hours by 6%, yielding an average decrease of $74 earned per month per ...
[25] [26] In 2014, Hanauer was a member of Seattle's Income Inequality Advisory Group which proposed and eventually passed the $15 minimum wage. [27] In 2016, Hanauer was the largest contributor to Washington State Initiative 1433 which supported "incrementally raising the state's minimum wage from $9.47 to $13.50 by 2020 and mandating ...
On Jan. 1, Seattle raised its minimum wage to $18.69 per hour for most employees. It now has the highest minimum wage in the nation (excluding industry-specific minimum wage rates), eclipsing the...
By Donna Gordon Blankinship SEATTLE (AP) - The Seattle City Council unanimously passed an ordinance Monday that gradually increases the minimum wage in the city to $15, which would make it the ...
SEATTLE (AP) - The Seattle City Council has approved an ordinance that would raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour, making it the highest in the nation. Here are some questions and answers ...
Winston Churchill MP, Trade Boards Bill, Hansard House of Commons (28 April 1909) vol 4, col 388 Modern minimum wage laws trace their origin to the Ordinance of Labourers (1349), which was a decree by King Edward III that set a maximum wage for laborers in medieval England. Edward, who was a wealthy landowner, was dependent, like his lords, on serfs to work the land. In the autumn of 1348, the ...
Not all is rosy in Seattle as the city gradually pushes to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour, according to a new study, Study: Seattle's minimum wage hike hurting hours, employment Skip to ...