Los Angeles County weighs $15 minimum wage for some workers

Each UC campus must follow federal, state and local minimum wage provisions, according to the policy. Those in favor of a city-wide minimum wage of $15 per hour said anything less isn’t enough to live in the city, especially for single parents and other people with families.

The City Council also approved an initiative to allow voters to decide whether to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Most full-time career position jobs at UCLA already pay $15 an hour, but there are some jobs that start at $9 an hour, said UCLA spokeswoman Rebecca Kendall in an email statement. However, this information does not include those who are paid by the hour.

Portland city councilors voted Monday night to reconsider a recently approved ordinance to increase the minimum wage. “However we’ve seen that the minimum wage is experienced by people in a broad variety of situations”, said Mako Bates, who supports the increase.

Though she has declined to say what she thinks is the ideal national minimum wage, the Democratic presidential candidate has implied that it might differ from place to place-and thus she would not push for an increase if she were president. The current state minimum wage is $8.75.

It’s unclear whether they will back the even higher $15 minimum wage proposed by Sanders.

However some business owners said the increase is not manageable.

The ordinance does not apply to persons 17 years old or younger. The mayor and other councilors have said the part of the law that addresses wages for tipped workers wasn’t written the way they intended. Unfortunately, if my sales are down and I have fewer customers, I can’t pay everyone a higher wage.