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
Last Spring, wage legislation was passed in West Virginia amending the state’s Minimum Wage law to provide for increases minimum wage rate beginning January 1, 2015. The state’s mandatory Minimum Wage posting has been revised to reflect the minimum wage rate increases in two stages: Beginning January 1, 2015, the minimum wage rate will increase Read more
By law, Michigan employers must begin paying the new state minimum wage on September 1, 2014. The wage rate increases incrementally over four years by one dollar and eighty-five cents ($1.85). Currently the minimum wage is $7.40 per hour. The first increase, effective September 1, will bring the wage rate to $8.15 per hour. On Read more
Minnesota’s governor has signed legislation raising the state’s minimum wage to $9.50 by 2016. This is a landmark increase because it has been a whooping 9+ years since the last increase in 2005. Currently, the minimum wage sits at $5.25 per hour for employees of small employers and $6.15 per hour for employees of large Read more
President Obama recently called for congress to raise the minimum wage rate to $9.00 per hour. That prompted New York’s Speaker Sheldon Silver, Assemblymen Keith Wright, and new Labor Committee Chair Carl Heastie to align New York legislation to match the President’s proposal. Currently the New York minimum wage is $7.25 per hour and has Read more
Expect minimum wage to increase by 25 cents. Who does this apply to? Manitoba’s minimum wage will be the same as its neighbor Ontario. The increase to $10.25 per hour will be effective in approximately two weeks on October 1, 2012. Compliance Poster Company has updated its MB Labour Law posters with the minimum wage Read more
There are mandatory changes to the New Hampshire Minimum Wage Law, as amended, as a result of 2011 enacted legislation. The repealed New Hampshire State minimum wage has been matched with the federal and further clarification with respect to tipped employees has been added to the NH Minimum Wage Labor Law poster. These changes are Read more
