CA Governor to sign bill raising minimum wage to $15/hr by 2022

[tsai3904]

California lawmakers send Jerry Brown historic $15 minimum wage

California lawmakers moved swiftly to ratify a deal boosting the state minimum wage to $15, sending legislation to Gov. Jerry Brown just days after the governor announced a deal with labor leaders.

With his expected signature, Brown will avert a costly ballot fight, give California the nation’s highest wage and make it the first state to vindicate organized labor’s national “Fight for 15” rallying cry. The measure will gradually raise California’s minimum wage to $15 by 2022 and would allow Brown or his successor to suspend increases in the event of a economic downturn.

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More:
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article69289527.html

The deal was announced on 3/26, text was publicly released on 3/29, both chambers passed the bill on 3/31 and it will be signed into law on 4/4 (all within 10 days).

Current minimum wage of $10 per hour will rise to:

January 1, 2017 - $10.50 per hour
January 1, 2018 - $11 per hour
January 1, 2019 - $12 per hour
January 1, 2020 - $13 per hour
January 1, 2021 - $14 per hour
January 1, 2022 - $15 per hour

then rise by inflation each year thereafter (but no decrease if there's deflation).

 

[dannno]

Well I guess it will be nice having all those automated services.

 

[Kords21]

If it's such a wonderful idea? Why wait for 2022? Why not tomorrow? Give a mouse a cookie and it'll ask for a glass of milk

 

[John F Kennedy III]

Say hello to mass unemployment and punching in your own orders for fast food....among I'm sure several others things. You'll probably check yourself out at every register in existence by 2022.