Post by pavel on Feb 8, 2016 21:13:09 GMT -6
Pressure prompts lawmakers to end effort to roll back local minimum wages
An attempt by two Republican legislators to cut the wages of many of the state’s lowest-paid workers is dead.
Sen. Mark Moores of Albuquerque and Rep. Jason Harper of Rio Rancho have relented to public pressure and scrapped the part of their bill that would have rolled back the minimum wage in the city of Santa Fe and four other local jurisdictions.
Moores said Saturday that he and Harper have crafted a substitute bill that will not deal at all with minimum wage.
“The idea was to create uniformity for businesses across the state instead of this patchwork of different minimum wages that creates uncertainty for businesses,” Moores told The New Mexican. “But after hearing the testimony of opponents, we realized this would have created uncertainty for workers in Santa Fe. We took that to heart.”
Read more: www.santafenewmexican.com/news/business/pressure-prompts-lawmakers-to-end-effort-to-roll-back-local/article_8e1bb84a-1109-58bb-84cf-60244d876282.html
An attempt by two Republican legislators to cut the wages of many of the state’s lowest-paid workers is dead.
Sen. Mark Moores of Albuquerque and Rep. Jason Harper of Rio Rancho have relented to public pressure and scrapped the part of their bill that would have rolled back the minimum wage in the city of Santa Fe and four other local jurisdictions.
Moores said Saturday that he and Harper have crafted a substitute bill that will not deal at all with minimum wage.
“The idea was to create uniformity for businesses across the state instead of this patchwork of different minimum wages that creates uncertainty for businesses,” Moores told The New Mexican. “But after hearing the testimony of opponents, we realized this would have created uncertainty for workers in Santa Fe. We took that to heart.”
Read more: www.santafenewmexican.com/news/business/pressure-prompts-lawmakers-to-end-effort-to-roll-back-local/article_8e1bb84a-1109-58bb-84cf-60244d876282.html