Alone, Barack Obama doesn’t have the power to decide an increase in federal minimum wage. But he just gave employers in all sectors and the Parliament a strong incentive to adopt measures in this sense and raise minimum wage in businesses that have a contract with the federal government.
On Wednesday, “the President has signed an Executive Order to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 for federal contract workers,” the White House announced. The measure will apply to new contracts signed after January 1, 2015. While minimum wage remains $7.25 elsewhere, the Order came – in keeping with the President’s last speech on the state of the Union, with a call to Congress to pass the Harkin-Millar measure that would gradually raise minimum wage to $10.10 in all sectors, indexing it to...
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