By Brian Myszkowski July 24, 2020 Governor Tom Wolf is on a mission to raise the pay rate for Pennsylvania workers, calling attention to a minimum wage that has remained stagnant for 11 years as of Friday. Since July 24, 2009, the commonwealth’s wage floor has sat at $7.25 per hour, the result of an Read More
By Stephania Jimenez March 27, 2020 Waiters and waitresses are among the lowest-paid workers in the United States. And times are getting harder for them during the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m concerned they may be hurting the most,” said Villanova Economics Professor David Fiorenza. As businesses close as a result of the outbreak, more workers have Read More
By Cassie Miller Embarrassing. That’s the one word that Pennsylvania Labor & Industry Secretary Gerard Oleksiak and his top deputy used Wednesday to describe Pennsylvania’s minimum wage, which has been mired at $7.25 an hour for more than a decade. The two Wolf administration officials made the case for a wage hike during the agency’s Read More
January 29, 2020 by Gant Team Gov. Tom Wolf is building on his commitment to help hardworking Pennsylvanians. On Tuesday, the governor joined legislators and workers to renew his call to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $12 an hour with a pathway to $15. Later this week, the governor’s plan to extend overtime pay eligibility Read More
Nov 20, 2019 by The Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Senate has passed compromise legislation to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage for the first time since 2009 in a deal with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf. However, Wolf gave up a number of concessions to win its passage, and its prospects in Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled House Read More
