Apart from the "red tsunami" that turned into a "red trickle" (if that), there were measures on many state ballots that will affect employers. Here are the highlights:
MINIMUM WAGE
Voters in Nebraska agreed to a proposal to raise the state minimum wage to $15 by 2026. In the District of Columbia, voters agreed to phase out the wage for tipped workers and start paying them the minimum in 2027. As we know, votes are still being counted (and counted, and counted, and counted) in Nevada, but that state had a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour. According to the latest news reports, we should know the outcome by Flag Day or thereabouts.
Local wage initiatives in California and Maine failed, for the most part. The only exception was Inglewood City, California, where voters agreed to require hospitals and clinics in the private sector to pay a minimum of $25 an hour. A failed initiative in Portland, Maine, would have raised applicable minimum wages, phased out the tip credit for restaurants and other service employers, treated workers for rideshare and delivery app companies to be "employees" under Portland labor laws, and would have created a new agency to enforce minimum wage and other protections for workers in these industries.
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS REGARDING UNIONS
In Illinois, voters approved an amendment to the state Constitution that would give workers a "fundamental right to organize and to bargain collectively through representatives of their own...
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