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SB 15 - $15 Minimum Wage
by Delaware Dem, BlueDelawareI love when a Senate Bill number has some sort of meaning. Is this apocryphal, or was there a Marijuana bill some time ago that was HB 420? Anyway, Sen. Jack Walsh introduced Senate Bill 15 yesterday that would raise the minimum wage to $15 in stages over several years. The wage will be raised to $10.50 on January 1, 2022, then to $11.75 on January 1, 2023, then to $13.25 on January 1, 2024 and finally to $15 on January 1, 2025.
The bill also says that if the Federal Minimum Wage exceeds the state minimum wage, the state wage will automatically be raised to match the Federal. The bill does not contain language that would index the minimum wage to any rise in inflation, and it should.
Every Senate Democrat sponsored the bill. 18 out of 26 House Democrats sponsored the bill. Who are the remaining 8? Speaker Pete Schwartzkopf, Kendra Johnson, Sherae’a Moore, Sean Matthews, Krista Griffith, Bill Carson, Bill Bush and Andria Bennett. I believe that Johnson, Moore, Matthews and Griffith are all for raising the wage. The Speaker, Bill Carson, Bill Bush and Andria Bennett are all question marks. Flood their email and phones.
Delaware’s current minimum wage of $9.25 an hour – set in 2019 – offers what is now a bare subsistence-level of pay for most low-wage workers, who are earning just $1,480 a month before taxes.
Read more: https://bluedelaware.com/2021/03/10/sb-15-15-minimum-wage/