The waivers in effect make unionizing workers a low-cost option for businesses unwilling or unable to pay the new minimum wage, which in cities such as San Francisco and SeaTac, Wash., which also has a waiver, will climb as high as $15 an hour when fully phased in. In those cities, businesses can sign a collective bargaining agreement with a union that sets the wages below the local minimum. Similar waivers were included in recent minimum wage increases in Long Beach, San Jose, Richmond and Oakland, Calif., as well as Milwaukee County, Wisc. according to a study by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, titled Labors Minimum Wage Exemption. In addition, the Washington, D.C., Council passed a minimum wage ordinance last year that included a union waiver, but Mayor Vincent Gray vetoed it. Later that year, Gray and council approved an increase without the union waiver. washingtonexaminer/minimum-wage-loophole-written-to-help-unions/article/2557806?utm_content=bufferdd2f0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 08:36:47 +0000
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