Training Wage News Today

The minimum wage in Missouri and Illinois is set to increase at the start of the 2024 calendar year.

The 2022 Minnesota legislative session was fairly quiet on the labor and employment front. However, there was expansion of rights and wages for employees that went into effect in 2022 and will continue to 2023.

Here's how much more money you'll be making next year.

Here's how much more money you'll be making next year.

>> al pike said "he didnt think, he just did it." that causeway, by the way, nearly 24 miles long. seattle lawmakers have voted to raise the citys minimum wage to $15 making it the highest in the country. the city council unanimously voted for the hike which would start to take effect next april. smaller businesses will have three to seven years to phase in the increase and lower training wage for teenagers. a trade group is vowing to sue to overturn the measure. some wall street analysts ar...

Ashley webster is here to explain this. >> they have one of the highest state minimum wages at 9.32 an hour well above the 7.25. the $15 an hour rate will be phased in depending on the benefits they provide employees. full-time workers translates to 31,000 a year. it will take effect in april of next year when every worker will get at least a $1 an hour raise. businesses employing more than 500 workers will be required to pay 15 an hour or 2018 if healthcare is offered. smaller businesses would ...

Margins, businesses losing money and they, im sure, would love to have free labor. as much free labor as they can take on but the same for progressive radio and anything else and yet, we say hey, well impose a wage floor on you. well do that because we believe this protects the interest of workers and i think we should be more flexible about that. >> interesting point. >> it makes sense to pay them a training wage, but if you do that for one group, you have to do it for all firms. >> everyone, p...

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Happen. what happens where you have a minimum wage of some states with 10.10 and others that are considerably lower. >> at that point it largely becomes a southern issue. its hard to imagine some of our most southerly states taking these initiatives on themselves relative to themies and the connecticut and the illinois etc. it seems to me the federal minimum wage may hold as the southern minimum wage. >> lets chekeep in mind also t the minimum wage to jarretts point is also a training wage. a lo...