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Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage

Posted by Unknown on from the only-sort-of-starving-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Seattle City Council announced on Monday that it has unanimously approved a $15 per hour minimum wage mandate. The new rate will go into effect starting April 1, 2015 in a tiered, gradual manner that depends on employer size. In the first year of implementation, hourly minimum wage will be raised to either $10 or $11 according to the employer size category. By 2021, hourly minimum wage across the board should be at or above $15. Seattle is the first city to implement a living wage for its lowest earners."

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  1. Re:Hello automation! by MouseTheLuckyDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least the machines will get your order right.

  2. Re:Behind the curve by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhap's they can get new job's selling excess apostrophe's to people in apostrophe-poor countrie's. They seem to be plentiful around here.

  3. Re:Behind the curve by freezin+fat+guy · · Score: 5, Funny

    You liberal hippies and your math are what is wrong with America these days.

    I have learned to trust that lowering costs for the rich will benefit me and my trailer-dwelling family far more than increasing our wages.