Impact on Libraries
The minimum wage increase proposed in the bill is:
(9) Fifteen dollars ($15) an hour beginning July 1, 2024
(10) Sixteen dollars fifty cents ($16.50) an hour beginning July 1, 2025 .
(11) Eighteen dollars ($18) an hour beginning July 1, 2026 .
(12) Nineteen dollars fifty cents ($19.50) an hour beginning July 1, 2027 .
(13) Twenty-one dollars ($21) an hour beginning July 1, 2028 .
Beginning July 1, 2029 , and for each succeeding July 1 thereafter, the minimum wage shall be increased by an annual cost-of-living adjustment calculated by the secretary using the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland area.
The bill also eliminates the sub-minimum wage, protects the gratuities of workers from wage theft, and expands the universe of beneficiaries to include gig workers, incarcerated workers, and neurodivergent workers.
Actions
- Reintroduced from 2022 Legislative Session (formerly HB15) May 10, 2023
- Referred to House Labor & Industry Committee May 10, 2023