As a new year rolls out, so are laws impacting grocery businesses. In addition to regulations on plastic bags and changes to grocery taxes at the dawn of 2023, some of the legislation is related to labor and employment.
As of Jan. 1, the minimum wage has gone up in 23 states and Washington, D.C. The dollar amount varies and ranges between $9.95 and $15.74. States on the high end of that spectrum include Washington, now at $15.74 an hour, and California, at $15.50 an hour. On the lower end, employers in Montana must pay workers at least $9.95 an hour. Oregon is unique in that it has a tiered system, with a $14.75 hourly rate in the urban Portland area, a standard rate of $13.50 in most of the state and a $12.50 rate in rural communities.
Although the federal minimum wage remains $7.25 an hour – the same rate for the last 13 years or so – higher thresholds are now in place in much of the country. Those state-based changes, bumping up pay between $0.23 and $1.50 an hour, are estimated to impact eight million Americans.
As employers in the states of the Washington and California meet the nation’s highest minimum wages, those who have more than 15 workers must also now include pay scale and benefits information in their external job postings. Such transparency laws are already in effect in the state of Oregon and in New York City.
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