January 2015

Starting July 3, 2015, San Francisco retail employers will have extra responsibilities to employees. The city has adopted the “Retail Workers Bill of Rights” which is intended to ensure that retail employees have more predictable and stable work schedules, that part-time employees are treated fairly and equally compared to their full-time counterparts, and to promote Read more

For the first time in seven years, the minimum wage rate in the state of Massachusetts increased from $8.00 per hour to $9.00 per hour on January 1, 2015. The minimum wage rate increase is the first in a series of three annual increases required by a bill signed in 2014 by Governor Deval Patrick: Read more

On December 31, 2014, New York’s minimum wage rate increased from $8.00 per hour to $8.75 per hour. The increase is part of the three increments that started December 31, 2013. New York Governor Cuomo signed a comprehensive state budget bill on March 29, 2013 that included amendments to Section 652 of the New York Read more

Each year, Colorado’s Constitution requires the state to adjust the minimum wage rate for inflation measured by the Consumer Price Index. This year, Colorado increased the statewide minimum wage rate from $8.00 to $8.23 per hour. The minimum wage rate for tipped employees increased from $4.98 per hour to $5.21 per hour. Both rates are Read more