Minimum wage rules speak of surprise to some legislators
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- Minimum wages will not increase further unless the General Assembly takes action
- The minimum wage this year is taking its peak to the peak of $ 15 per hour this year
- Resistance to the minimum wage hike was tough
Providance – The first major broadcast of the meeting on the minimum wage of the General Assembly and many of its permits was broadcast on Wednesday, as the House and Senate committees mourned most of the business owners at the cost of wages.
Some of some of the minimum wage bills this year:
- Increase the minimum wage by 2030 to $ 20 in an hour (HB 5029For, for, for,. SB125For, for, for,. SB 310Jes
- Set the minimum wage an hour to $ 22 (HB 5508Jes
- Increase the minimum wage by 2030 to $ 89 to $ 14.95 and make it like a minimum wage by 2031 (HB 5507Jes
- Increase the minimum wage 75 6.75 per hour (SB 215Jes
Last year, the General Assembly took action under the same umbrella, “Household worker” (Nanny, maid, butler, housekeepers, kitchen, come couple, gardener) employees. This change means that their rights are now like any other worker in the state, including the minimum wage and overtime.
The last time the members of the Assembly raised the minimum wage in 2021, when they gradually increased to $ 15 per hour this year. Unlike 20 states, including Connecticut, Rhod Eyland did not increase the minimum wage in the future, although inflation rate The constitution of the Rhod Island is required The cost of raising salaries to lawmakers is costly at the cost of life.
None of the bills discussed in the House or Senate may have made changes to minimum wage changes in the future based on inflation or life cost.
Here is how much one will earn, works 40 hours a week, on various proposed hours of wages. This calculation does not take in tax.
| Hour | Weekly | Monthly | Annual |
| $ 15 | $ 600 | 4 2,400 | 31,200 |
| $ 16 | 40 640 | 5 2,560 | 33,280 |
| $ 17 | 80 680 | 7 2,720 | 35,360 |
| $ 18 | 20 720 | 8 2,880 | 37,440 |
| $ 19 | 60 760 | 0 3,040 | 39.520 |
| $ 20 | $ 800 | $ 3,200 | 41,600 |
| $ 22 | 80 880 | $ 3,520 | 45,760 |
‘Collective resistance’
De-Providance Representative David Morales said he was disappointed with all the owners, lobby and business groups of the restaurant that came out and came out every year-which could oppose the minimum wage and minimum wage increase, which creates “collective resistance”.
He said, “I really think that there is a pleasant means where we can maintain the needs of our small businesses, but at the same time managed to admit that this basic minimum wage must be higher.”
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‘Take it out of a small business hide’
Lobest Bob Goldberg said the minimum wage will increase by $ 20 per hour by 2030, which will “make it difficult for people to get star jobs,” force to close the business and force them to spend on things like advertising.
Goldberg said the minimum wage jobs are “admission level jobs for a purpose”, not just for people to live but not just “to learn the youth”.
While Goldberg complained about potentially higher labor costs, employees’ spells, $ 2004, costs employers costing about $ 15,000 per employee, According to data From the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Goldberg said, “What are you doing to help the small business in this bill? Nothing. This has been a one -way street for five years, and even with the development of the economy, there is no chance to hear.” He represents the Providance Chamber of Commerce Also CVS, FedEx and IGT.
Goldberg said that the minimum wage hike can solve the problem, not making enough money to live in time of loss of small businesses, renting and fell prices, Goldberg said.
“But the solution to these problems is not taking it out of small business printing,” he said.
According to the RedFan study, the rent of the Providance was 1 2,145, which was the current minimum wage worker, who works 40 hours a week, was $ 255 less than the minimum wage worker’s amount in a month.
For accounting Social Security (6.2 %) and Medicare Tax (1.45 %)A total of 7.65 %, median questioning fare is only $ 72 less than a full -time wage worker in a month.
Residential wages in Rhod Island is an hour for the same person.2 24.24 Massachusetts Institute of Technology‘ Living wages Calculator.
Although a full -time minimum wage worker is not eligible for food stamps or medical because they earn a lot of money, they are eligible for a very limited number of limited residential slots on revenue that provide subsidies to the state and the federal government, which contribute between 80 % of the area’s average income and 120 %.
Currently, the minimum wage person makes less than 50 % of the area’s middle income, which enables housing vouchers or subsidies residential slots.
Who opposes the minimum wage, and why?
The restaurant owners, some server and lobby indicators came out to decide the proposed increase in the minimum wage.
Under it House Bill 5507Introduced by the representative. Leonella FelixD Pocate, which currently has a minimum wage at 89 3.89, will gradually be $ 14.95 in $ 2031 by 2031, except that the one hour starting in 2026 will be $ 3.06 jump to $ 6.95.
In Rhod Island, people who receive indicators can be paid at a minimum wage, less than $ 15. If the indicators do not make a difference between the minimum wage and the real minimum wage, then an employer should pay the difference, so they pay the minimum wage in any shift.
It is understood that employers have to pay this difference, it was surprising for San Jessica de La Cruz, who was elected in 2018, who said that he had no idea during the Senate Committee hearing.
While the owners of the restaurant repeatedly said that all the indicator workers pay the minimum wage, when the Federal Department of Labor succeeded in compliance with 9,000 restaurants between 2010 and 2012, 84 % of the investigators violated the wages. According to this broom, the Federal Enforcement Programs received a Back 56.8 million waist for 82,000 workers. A report of the Economic Development Institute It relied on the email correspondence with the department.
Of the written testimony presented in the House (109 comments), 43 % was only for a minimum wage bill, most of which.
The opposition came from two sides: restaurant owners who do not want to pay more labor expenses and servers who say they pay good wages and are afraid that the minimum wage increase will result in reduction.
Like indicators support minimal wages Economic Development Institute‘ Alan CurnskyMake it, make many servers living a good life with suggestions, including those who wrote against the bill and testified at the hearing. However, they do not represent the majority of server indicator workers.
“Indicator workers are more likely to live in poverty than other workers,” Curnsky wrote in his testimony. “And a sub -minimum indicator workers in the states are more likely to be in poverty in 8 equal treatment states without any separate tiping wages.”
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