In today’s News and Commentary: GOP-led states appeal challenge to $15 min wage for federal contractors, mass layoffs at Disney, and Meta must face suit from content moderators in Kenya.
The GOP-led states of Nebraska, Idaho, Indiana, and South Carolina have appealed a January district court ruling that rejected their motion to block President Biden’s $15 minimum wage for federal contractors. Biden directed the US Labor Department to raise federal contractors’ minimum wage to $15 via executive order last April. Judge John J. Tuchi of the US District Court for the District of Arizona dismissed the states’ case on January 6, finding that the states failed to show that the president went beyond his authority when ordering the pay raise for federal contractors, and that the change was not reviewable under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The case, Arizona v. Walsh, has been appealed to the Ninth Circuit. As Bloomberg reports, Biden’s minimum wage order is also being challenged in separate federal lawsuits brought by a Texas-led, three-state coalition, as well as by a private recreational company. In the private company’s case, the Tenth Circuit agreed to partially halt enforcement of the policy while the appeal is pending. Arguments were heard in that case in September.
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