An intraparty fight has broken out in New York over the state’s minimum wage laws, portending similar skirmishes across the country in the coming years
with lawmakers — this year proposed pegging the state’s minimum wage to inflation, while capping year-over-year increases to 3 percent or less. The state already requires a minimum wage of $15 per hour in and around New York City and $14.20 upstate.
California, Washington state and the District of Columbia have already edged beyond the $15 threshold, as of January. And activists are launching lobbying campaigns in more statehouses, hoping to push the minimum wage as high as $22 per hour in coming years. Others are pushing to index state minimum wages to inflation.
In New York, Hochul has argued her plan’s guardrails on future minimum wage increases help make them predictable for employers, smoothing out yearly bumps while ensuring workers get raises when their wages fall behind the buying power of the dollar. Democrats in the state Senate and Assembly are amenable to inflation-related adjustments, but both have signaled that it should be accompanied by a discrete increase that kicks in first.despite attempts from Democrats in Congress
For instance, lawmakers in Massachusetts cut a deal in 2018 to gradually step up its minimum wage to $15-per-hour by this year. Already, members of the coalition that led the effort, Raise Up Massachusetts, are gaming out a new target. In addition to raising the standard minimum wage, many of these same organizations have pushed to end the even-lower base pay for tipped workers as well as the subminimum wage for certain types of workers, such as people with disabilities.
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