Many States Boosting Minimum Wage

While California legislators and Gov.
Schwarzenegger have finally reached agreement over raising the state’s current
$6.75-an-hour minimum wage, several other states have recently approved
increases to their state’s minimum wage. In North Carolina, the minimum wage will climb
from $5.15 hourly to $6.15 hourly, effective Jan. 1, 2007. This new minimum
wage law also ties North Carolina’s
minimum wage to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act—if the federal minimum
wage increases, employees in the state will receive whichever wage is higher.

In Pennsylvania, the minimum wage will increase
from $5.15 per hour to $7.15 per hour in two stages by July 1, 2007. For
employers with 10 or fewer employees, the rate hike will take effect in three
stages between January 2007 and July 2008. And Delaware’s minimum wage will rise from $6.15
per hour to $6.65 per hour on Jan. 1, 2007, and to $7.15 per hour on Jan. 1,
2008.

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