Post by Logan on Feb 1, 2016 21:24:13 GMT -6
Washington lawmakers consider bills to standardize sick leave, minimum wage
OLYMPIA – The Washington Legislature should standardize the state’s minimum wage and sick leave laws to avoid a growing number of workplace standards, business representatives told a Senate panel Monday. But they didn’t agree on the best way to do it.
Labor and union officials, meanwhile, criticized a plan to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour over four years and to phase in minimum sick leave in 2018 as “too little, too late.”
Washington has a patchwork of labor laws in different cities, with five different sets of minimum wage standards and four different paid sick leave requirements, including one approved last week in Spokane over a mayoral veto.
The Senate Commerce and Labor Committee considered two proposals that would standardize both.
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/feb/01/washington-lawmakers-consider-bills-to-standardize/
OLYMPIA – The Washington Legislature should standardize the state’s minimum wage and sick leave laws to avoid a growing number of workplace standards, business representatives told a Senate panel Monday. But they didn’t agree on the best way to do it.
Labor and union officials, meanwhile, criticized a plan to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour over four years and to phase in minimum sick leave in 2018 as “too little, too late.”
Washington has a patchwork of labor laws in different cities, with five different sets of minimum wage standards and four different paid sick leave requirements, including one approved last week in Spokane over a mayoral veto.
The Senate Commerce and Labor Committee considered two proposals that would standardize both.
Read more: www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/feb/01/washington-lawmakers-consider-bills-to-standardize/