It’s not an April Fools’ Day joke – tomorrow, Tucson’s Minimum Wage Act (the “Act”), also known as Proposition 206, takes effect. The Act increases the minimum wage to $13.00 per hour for all employees (full-time, part-time, temporary, and those engaged through an employment or staffing agency) who perform at least five hours of work per workweek within Tucson city limits. The minimum wage is scheduled to increase to $13.50 by January 1, 2023, $14.25 by January 1, 2024, and $15.00 by January 1, 2025, followed by further adjustments each January, based on inflation.

However, Tucson employers should be aware that the Act does far more than merely raise Tucson’s minimum wage. The Act has many other provisions that will affect Tucson employers. Some highlights:

• The Act creates a City Department of Labor Standards, charged with implementing and enforcing the Act.
• “Work hours” under the Act expressly include:
  • Time that an employer requires the employee to undergo a security screening immediately prior to or following a work shift;
  • Time that an employer requires the employee to be on the employer’s premises or at a prescribed work site; and
  • Time that an employer requires the employee to be logged in and actively attentive to an employer-provided computer program, phone application, or similar device.
• Under the Act, a worker is generally assumed to be an employee, unless the employer can establish that:
  • The worker is free from control and direction of the hiring entity...

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