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This act put into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state education, labor, housing and family assistance budget for the 2016-2017 state fiscal year. This includes a statewide $15 minimum wage plan, affecting both small and large businesses, allowing for geographical specification. Additionally, this act created a 12-week paid family leave policy, which will entitle employees to be eligible for 12 weeks of paid family leave when caring for an infant, a family member with a serious health condition or to relieve family pressures when someone is called to active military service.
Year: 2016•State: New York•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: New York State LegislatureThis act changed the minimum wage in several areas of Oregon. These increases were to hourly rates of $14.75 in Portland, $13.50 in midsize counties, and $12.50 in rural areas by 2022.
Year: 2016•State: Oregon•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: Oregon State LegislatureAn amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning the state minimum wage, and, in connection therewith, increasing Colorado's minimum wage to $6.85 per hour, adjusted annually for inflation, and providing that no more than $3.02 per hour in tip income may be used to offset the minimum wage of employees who regularly receive tips.
Year: 2006•State: Colorado•Type: Constitutional Amendment•Source: Citizen InitiativeThis act revises provisions governing the minimum wage required to be paid to employees in private employment in this State. This specifically affects the tourism industry, such as casinos. The act also revises provisions governing a civil action brought by an employee whose employer violates the requirement to pay the minimum wage;
Year: 2017•State: Nevada•Type: Act or Session Law•Source: Nevada State LegislatureThis act provides a raise of minimum wage for all employees, as well as paid sick leave for providers of in-home supportive services. Providers of these in-home services who have worked 30 or more days for the same employer since July 31, 2015 are entitled to paid sick leave, subject to specified full amount of leave time amounts and that rate of accrual. Further, the act includes an increase to California's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2022 for employers with 26 or more employees and by 2023 for employers with 25 or fewer employees.
Year: 2016•State: California •Type: Act or Session Law•Source: California State LegislatureThis fact sheet explains the benefits of 2013 California AB 10, which increases the state's minimum wage to $9.00 per hour as of July 1, 2014 and $10 per hour as of January 1, 2016.
Year: 2013•State: California•Type: Fact Sheet or Infographic•Source: National Employment Law ProjectThis joint policy report from the National Employment Law Project and the National Domestic Workers Alliance outlines provisions for a domestic workers' bill of rights. The bill of rights includes provisions to end exclusion of domestic workers in the state's labor and employment laws, such as minimum wage statutes and workers' compensation laws, and establishing industry-specific labor standards for these workers, such as paid leave, one day of rest a week, and recordkeeping by employers.
Year: 2013•State: All States•Type: Policy Brief or Report•Source: National Employment Law ProjectA report on how raising and indexing the minimum wage benefits workers, employers, and the economy.
Year: 2009•Type: Policy Brief or Report•Source: Economic Policy InstituteThis initiative provides for annual minimum wage increases for two years and indexing of the minimum wage to a consumer price index measure thereafter.
Year: 1998•State: Washington•Type: Ballot Measure•Source: Citizen InitiativeThis act raises the minimum wage to $10 per hour, indexes the minimum wage to future increases in the cost of living, and reduces the number of workers exempted from minimum wage law protection.
Year: 2012•Type: Model Law•Source: ALICE