Bill Seeks Repeal of Nevada's $8.25 Minimum Wage

[cali]

By Cy Ryan (contact)

Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 | 3:39 p.m.

CARSON CITY – Abolishing Nevada's minimum wage would hurt low-paid workers who are spending their money locally while executives and higher-paid workers wouldn't see a change, labor representatives said Wednesday.

But representatives of employer groups urged a Senate committee to approve a proposed constitutional amendment to scrap the minimum wage law and requirements they say result in businesses not hiring, in some cases.

Before a packed hearing room, the Senate Committee on Commerce and Energy took testimony on Senate Joint Resolution 2, which would put the issue before voters over whether to eliminate the requirement that employers pay a minimum wage.

Nevada’s minimum wage is $8.25 an hour unless the employer provides qualified health insurance to the worker and his or her dependents. If health insurance is provided, the minimum wage drops to $7.25 cents an hour.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/feb/16/bill-seeks-repeal-nevadas-825-minimum-wage/

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

1. Minimum wage earners are not the problem, they are the victims.

[Lindsay]

2. There is no end to the lies

the uber-wealthy will tell to take more from the least among us.

[Initech]

3. Do they want a revolution????

[andym]

4. The Right's war against the Center continues.

All they want is a return to a real "free" market-- no protections for consumers or workers. Each individual responsible for themselves. If a company wants to employ you for 25 cents/hour, it's your "choice" whether you take it. Of course, if you "choose" to be unemployed, then that's your choice too, and don't expect any help. If they sell you poison food, next time don't buy it (if you're still alive), no reason to have the right to sue a company and impede the free market....

The Right's utopia is America's dystopia.

[katnapped]

8. Why do you think they're shredding the safety net?

"Guess you gotta work for a quarter an hour...not helping you otherwise"

[Bozita]

5. How long until a Congresscritter tries this at the federal level?

My guess is one month max.

[barbtries]

6. the minimum wage =

not enough to live on. and they want to scrap it.

greed will kill humanity. that's what i think, greed is the base for the ills we inflict upon each other and ourselves. greed. the word itself is beginning to seem an obscenity.

[rucky]

7. This is theft.

any employee can offer a buy-in with some sort of a match, but if the worker has to go out of pocket, there'll be less of a pocket to go out of.

Also, if you do the math, this is a 12% pay cut when somebody earning that wage could qualify for vouchers under the new healthcare plan.

Assuming that buy-ins are not exempt, this is a screw job, where the employer class sees an opportunity to benefit from a reform that was clearly intended to benefit the working class. They never ever want us to catch a break.

[gratuitous]

9. Quit pussyfooting around, Nevada

Just re-institute slavery and be done with it. Come on. You know you want to.

[somone]

10. The full frontal assault on the American working poor continues