As reported by Politico, President Biden has admitted to an audience of mayors and governors that the slim Democratic majority in the Senate will not allow passage of an increase in the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour in the near future. Does this mean that the remainder of President Biden's very ambitious and far-reaching agenda for changes in federal labor and employment laws will also be delayed? Advocates of higher minimum wages will now likely turn attention back to state legislatures and municipalities for moving the overall minimum wages higher in at least some jurisdictions. These localized efforts have often been successful.
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Biden postpones minimum wage legislation
When Joe Biden met with a group of mayors and governors last week he bluntly told them to get ready for a legislative defeat: his proposed minimum wage hike was unlikely to happen, he said, at least in the near term.
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