Los Angeles Mayor Proposes $13.25 an Hour Minimum Wage By James Nash Sep 2, 2014 Los Angeles, the second-largest U.S. city by population, would boost its minimum wage to $13.25 an hour by 2017, almost twice the current federal regulation, under a proposal by Mayor Eric Garcetti. Garcetti, a 43-year-old Democrat, said he will ask the City Council to lift the prevailing $9 minimum to $10.25 next year, then phase-in $1.50 annual raises over the following two years, according to his office.Today, we launch the biggest anti-poverty program in L.A. history,” Garcetti said yesterday in a Facebook post. “We are going to raise the minimum wage.” The mayor’s push is part of a nationwide drive in cities and states to lift wages for low-income earners, after efforts to raise the federal standard of $7.25 an hour stalled in Congress.The Los Angeles minimum would top out at $13.25 in 2017, when California’s minimum wage is to reach $13 under a law signed last year by Governor Jerry Brown. The city’s minimum would also exceed San Diego’s, where the City Council overrode a mayoral veto to boost the base rate to $11.50 in three years.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 08:35:46 +0000
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