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Thursday, April 9, 2026

5 AGs Say Federal Contractor Wages Increase Is Illegal - Law360

By Irene Spezzamonte (February 8, 2022, 8:46 PM EST) -- Five Republican attorneys general said Tuesday that President Joe Biden didn't have the authority to raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $15 an hour, urging an Arizona federal court to halt the order. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who led the group, urged a federal judge to issue a preliminary and permanent injunction stopping the Biden administration and the U. S. Department of Labor from enforcing the $15 minimum wage for federal contractors, which the president mandated in an April 2021 executive order. "The United States is not a dictatorship," the attorneys general said in the complaint. "Notwithstanding the. . .

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