New Year will bring new minimum wage in some states

Maryland’s minimum is now set at $8.25, but that will increase 50 cents to $8.75 in July.

MA and California are pushing wages up to ten dollars an hour in the new year.

Tips do not count toward the minimum wage. For those calling for a higher minimum wage, 2015 was a win. Some say it can reduce poverty and inequality, but others says it impacts less than 5 percent of the workforce and pushing the minimum too high can discourage hiring.

The increase follows the first report of the Low Pay Commission, an independent body tasked with examining the appropriate rate of the statutory minimum wage.

Vote Now: How Do You Feel About the Minimum Wage? Increasing the minimum wage has traction even among some conservative voters. But, Saltsman agrees 2016 will be an important year in the minimum wage debate.

“The goal of the minimum wage is always too painted as trying to help the least among us”.

“Alongside USC and PRSI cuts announced in the Budget a single person working full-time on the minimum wage will see an annual boost to their income of €708 per annum or €14 a week”.

The Alaska minimum wage applies to all hours worked in a pay period regardless of how the employee is paid.

Changes to the minimum wage are based on the nationwide Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) for a 12-month period ending each August 31.

DIR’s Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, or DLSE, also known as the Labor Commissioner’s Office, enforces prevailing wage rates and apprenticeship standards in public works projects, inspects workplaces for wage and hour violations, adjudicates wage claims, investigates retaliation complaints, issues licenses and registrations for businesses and educates the public on labor laws.