What the Executive Order Requiring Federal Contractors to Pay a $15 Minimum Wage Will Mean
The upcoming rulemaking process should illuminate more.
It will take some time for the full scale and scope of President Biden’s recent executive order directing federal contractors to pay a $15 minimum wage for their workers starting next year to be seen.
Biden issued an executive order on April 27 that builds on one from President Obama in February 2014, which required federal contractors to pay their workers $10.10 per hour. Currently, the minimum wage for workers on federal contracts is $10.95 per hour and the tipped minimum wage is $7.65 per hour.
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In September 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden promised organized labor that, if elected, he would be the “strongest labor president you’ve ever had.” In his first 100 days in office, now President Biden has acted quickly and aggressively to make good on this pledge. Some of these efforts have quickly come to fruition; the fate of others remains unclear and are likely to require congressional approval no certainty in a Congress where both the House of Representatives and Senate are operating with historically narrow margins. What is abundantly clear is that the new administration is committed to revisiting prior administration policies and moving decisively to advance its own pro-labor agenda, and in only 100 days, it has taken significant steps to do so.
Biden cabinet members talk jobs plan at Electric Boat
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In this Thursday, July 30, 2015 photo, shipyard workers at General Dynamics Electric Boat prepare the submarine Illinois for float-off in Groton.Jessica Hill / Associated Press
With many people out of work or underemployed due to the pandemic, apprenticeships, long seen as pathways to higher paid, higher skilled jobs, are emerging as key way to bring people back to work in jobs that can support their families.
The was the message of two of President Joe Biden’s cabinet secretaries in their joint visit to Electric Boat’s headquarters in Groton Tuesday. Both hail from New England states with histories of using apprenticeships to train workers in the manufacturing and industrial sector,
President Joe Biden’s $4 trillion vision of remaking the federal government’s role in the U.S. economy is now in the hands of Congress, where both parties see a higher chance of at least some compromise than for the administration’s pandemic-relief bill.
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