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Democrats who management the Virginia Basic Meeting despatched Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin laws on Friday that will increase the state’s minimal wage to $15 an hour by 2026.
Equivalent payments that will increase the present minimal wage of $12 per hour to $13.50 on January 1, 2025, after which to $15 on January 1, 2026, cleared the Senate and Home of Representatives for party-line votes, TV station WRIC reported .
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The laws is a high precedence for Democrats and progressive advocacy teams and builds on a push the occasion began a number of years in the past when the minimal wage was $7.25 an hour. Supporters say the measure will assist working households afford fundamental requirements and sustain with inflation, whereas opponents say it’s going to damage small companies.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin arrives within the Home chambers to ship his State of the Commonwealth deal with on the Capitol on January 10, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia. The Democratic-controlled Virginia Basic Meeting despatched Governor Youngkin laws that will enhance the state’s minimal wage to $15 per hour by 2026. (AP Picture/Steve Helber, file)
The payments face an unsure future — Youngkin has indicated he opposes them, although he has not explicitly stated he’ll veto them. Youngkin advised reporters earlier this 12 months that he believed the laws was pointless “as a result of the market is coping with it.”
Virginia Democrats started a push to lift the minimal wage in 2020 after they had full management of the state authorities. They handed laws that 12 months — which was delayed as a result of coronavirus pandemic — establishing incremental will increase as much as $12, with additional bumps requiring one other vote within the Meeting.
