Washington, D.C. raises minimum wage
Employee time will soon be worth more in the nation's capitol following the recent signing of a bill by Washington, D.C. Mayor Vince Gray.
Gray's signature doesn't immediately raise the district's minimum pay rate, but the wage floor will move from $8.25 to $9.50 on July 1, 2014, according to the Washington City Paper. A series of increases will eventually bring the required hourly compensation for non-exempt workers to $11.50 by July 1, 2016. Thereafter, the rate of increase - or possibly decrease - will be pegged to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index.
There is one exception to the increase under the new law besides the usual Fair Labor Standards Act exemptions for salaried employees: Workers who deliver newspapers to homes do not qualify for the mandatory pay increase.
Previous efforts in the District to require a separate, higher minimum wage for employees of major retail chains failed, The Washington Post reported. The current law raises the wage for all hourly employees equally.
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