Hazard pay of $18 an hour – a minimum wage that’s the highest in the nation – is hurting the very people it’s meant to help.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Abolish the federal minimum wage
Local governments and entrepreneurs are in the best position to decide what wages should be.
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Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Portland businesses struggle to keep up with new $18 hazard pay
Some have cut hours and laid off staff. Others have raised prices. Many say the situation isn’t sustainable.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Higher federal minimum wage an essential part of COVID recovery
It’s the right thing to do to provide not a handout, just a fair wage for a fair day’s work. And it’s badly overdue.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Government by referendum is almost always a bad idea
Approval of Portland’s rent-control and minimum-wage proposals shows what happens when the public decides issues without asking many hard questions.
Posted inPortland Forecaster
School board agrees to offer hazard pay during pandemic
About 100 Portland Public Schools employees would see their pay rate bumped up to $18 per hour.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: I’m young and Black. Barack Obama is not my hero
His politics have always been those of a cautious centrist.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Otto pizza raising prices at Portland locations to offset hazard pay increase
The company says the temporary increase will help it cope with the new minimum emergency wage of $18 an hour passed by Portland voters in November.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Some employers plan to pay Portland’s new hazard wage
City Hall has said it will not enforce a new $18 emergency minimum wage until 2022, but businesses fear a delay would leave them open to lawsuits.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Employers warned that Portland’s stance on hazard pay could expose them to lawsuits
Labor lawyers and the Chamber of Commerce say the city’s position that time-and-a-half pay during emergencies won’t take effect until 2022 might trigger challenges.