Pelosi says firmly the stimulus bill sent to the Senate *will* include $15 minimum wage.

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Kristina L. Peterson
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Pelosi says firmly the stimulus bill sent to the Senate *will* include $15 minimum wage.

[LizBeth]

1. The 15 an hour is just federal employee, right? I feel a lot believe 15 is nationally for everyone.

It isn't right? Just federal or am I missing something?

[ananda]

2. Here's a good article showing the cutoffs for checks.

https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/02/third-stimulus-check-update-house-gets-to-work-on-bill-that-includes-1400-stimulus-payments-heres-the-latest.html

The proposal before the House Ways and Means Committee also would provide $1,400 for each dependent, but the payments would cut off entirely for individuals earning more than $100,000 and married couples earning more than $200,000.

“We are considering proposals that will give Americans a sense of security in a time of overwhelming uncertainty,” said committee chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass. “This includes the security of knowing that the second part of their $2,000 check is on the way. For the lowest-income families, this means help affording life’s most basic necessities.”

[LizBeth]

8. I was talking minimum wage, not stimulus.

[ananda]

12. I know. Just adding, that's all.

Well meant n all.

[LizBeth]

13. +1

[Massacure]

4. It'll be everyone, not just federal employees.

I'm operating of memory so don't quote me, but I believe the current bill is:

2021 - $9.50
2022 - $11.00
2023 - $12.50
2024 - $14.00
2025 - $15.00
2026 and on - $15.00 + annual adjustment equal to the mean percent increase of all employee wages in the United States.

It also phases out allowing employers to credit tips toward an employees wages.

[LizBeth]

9. Thank you so much. I am in Oregon and we have been doing this for a couple years. Not sure where it

is at now cause I stopped working last march and July has the increase. Maybe 11.75 or 12.25. I don't know. But thanks.

[whopis01]

5. It applies to everyone. n/t

[LizBeth]

10. Ty

[Tommymac]

6. No - this is for everyone. Pres Joe already signed an EO..

to eventually make $15 an hour the minimum wage for Federal workers. Contractors to follow later this year.

Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomspiggle/2021/02/04/president-biden-takes-first-step-in-bringing-15-minimum-wage-to-federal-workers/?sh=6b27364310ea

President Biden’s Executive Order on Protecting the Federal Workforce

On January 22, 2021, President Biden signed the Executive Order (EO) on Protecting the Federal Workforce. This was a broad EO in that it didn’t just focus on minimum wage, but took various approaches to helping federal workers.

This EO repealed EO 13957, which then-President Trump used as an attempt to reduce due process protections for many federal employees, making it easier for them to get fired.

As for minimum wage, Section 5 from Biden’s EO on Protecting the Federal Workforce instructed the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to create a report with recommendations concerning raising the minimum wage for federal employees to $15 an hour.

And according to the White House, President Biden also plans on issuing another EO within his first 100 days in office that would increase the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour.

[LizBeth]

11. Ha, that must be why I thought it federal and could not figure why everyone was so pressing on

this. K, thanks for the info.

[Sogo]

3. Pelosi has no more f***s to give....

They need to just ram through every progressive plan now.

[peggysue2]

7. Nor should she

Not after what Trump and these Republicans have done. No more backing down or trying to make nice.

Republicans made and chose their own beds. Let 'em rot in them.