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UPI: California prepares to increase minimum wage to $15 for 2022

By Clyde Hughes
UPI (United Press International), Dec 29, 2021

The minimum wage for many California workers will rise to $15 per hour on Jan. 1, more than twice the federal minimum. ...

Some business owners said that they welcomed the change because it benefited their employees.

"For too long, the restaurant industry has put employees last," said Karter Louis, CEO of Soul Pizza in Oakland, according to Capitol Weekly. "A low-wage model that has proven short-sighted and unsustainable." ...

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The Center Square: Virginia minimum wage will increase to $11 in January

By Tyler Arnold
The Center Square, Dec 28, 2021

Virginia’s minimum wage will increase to $11 per hour in less than a week, which is getting some mixed reactions from members of the commonwealth’s business community. ...

One organization called Business for a Fair Minimum Wage is embracing the higher wage. The group’s CEO, Holly Sklar, released a statement in which she said low minimum wages hurt workers who can’t afford basics and hurt businesses that count on people having money to spend. Michael Lastoria, the CEO of &pizza and member of the group, said higher wages show workers they are valued.

Delaware News Journal: What to know about why Delaware is raising its minimum wage from $9.25 to $10.50 an hour

By Sarah Gamard
Delaware News Journal / Delaware Online, Dec 28, 2021. Also Yahoo News, Delmarva Now.

Delaware's minimum wage will increase from $9.25 to $10.50 per hour starting in January. In June, lawmakers passed a bill to raise the minimum wage by more than $1 each year until it reaches $15 an hour by 2025. ...

Business owners have had mixed reactions in Delaware. Some support a $15 minimum wage, arguing that it increases consumer spending when the economy needs a post-pandemic boost, on top of improving worker morale and customer service. ...

Kristen Deptula, owner...

Springfield Business Journal: Missouri minimum wage hike coming in new year

Springfield Business Journal (MO), Dec  27, 2021

... Missouri's minimum wage is scheduled to increase to $11.15 from $10.30 per hour on Jan. 1. It's one of 21 states starting the new year with a wage hike, according to a news release from Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, a national network of business owners, executives and organizations that favor increases.

"When the minimum wage is too low, it hurts workers who can’t afford the basics and it hurts businesses that count on customers with money to spend," said Holly Sklar, CEO of Business for a Fair...

Capitol Weekly: California’s minimum wage rises to $15 per hour

By Seth Sandronsky
Capitol Weekly, Dec 27, 2021

Minimum-wage workers in the Golden State will get an hourly pay raise in the new year. ...

There is business support for a higher minimum wage. Karter Louis is CEO of Soul Slice Pizza in Oakland. “For too long, the restaurant industry has put employees last,” he said in an email, “a low-wage model that has proven short-sighted and unsustainable.” ...

Louis, who is a member of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, continues. “If restaurant owners want to thrive, they need to start by investing in their employees...

Entrepreneurs Herald: Delaware Is Likely To Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 Per Hour: Implications For Raise In The National Minimum Wage

Entrepreneurs Herald, Dec 16, 2021

Kristen Deptula and her husband bought the Canalside Inn in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, in October 2019, with little clue that the summer season would be primarily a bust owing to Covid-19.

The innkeepers were able to get support from the federal government through the Paycheck Protection Program. Deptula also attributes another move —providing their employees a $15 per hour minimum wage — to the company's ability to weather the pandemic.

That wage is far more than the state's current minimum wage of $9.25 per hour. Deptula, a native of Washington...

Baltimore Sun: Howard County executive makes minimum wage hike official

By Katie V. Jones
Baltimore Sun, Dec. 14, 2021

A week after the County Council passed the legislation, County Executive Calvin Ball put his signature on a bill that will raise the minimum wage in the county to $16 ... The minimum wage increase will be phased in during the next five years. ...

Liz Richardson, owner of Indigo Ink in Columbia, said that raising minimum wage “would be good for business.”

“Since we opened 18 years ago, we’ve seen that paying a higher minimum wage is excellent for business because it creates great company...

Houston Chronicle: Purpose of a Minimum Wage

By Russell Huebsch
Houston Chronicle Newsletter, Dec 7, 2021

... People who oppose the minimum wage believe that requiring employers to pay mandated government wages forces employers to raise prices and cut staff. On its face, this doesn’t make sense. If employers can raise prices at any time without pricing themselves out of business, why would they have been selling their products for less than what they could have been charging all this time? And why would employers be hiring staff they didn’t need and could cut in response to a wage increase?

People who support...

Fast Casual: Fast casual leaders share hiring, recruitment tips amidst labor shortage

By Mandy Wolf Detwiler
Fast Casual, Nov. 12, 2021

... The obstacles related to staff recruitment retention and technologies that can ease the staffing pains were the focus of a panel talk ... at the recent Fast Casual Executive Summit held in Charlotte North Carolina. ...Panelists included Andy Hooper, president of &pizza, Eric Ersher, founder of Zoup! Eatery and John Pepper, founder of Boloco. ...

A recent Indeed poll showed there are four times more jobs than seekers and when it comes to interview time 80% of candidates are no shows. There's a labor churn of...