Biden Setting Federal Minimum Wage At $15. Executive Order Doesn’t Include Past Promise On The Issue

https://dailycaller.com ^ | April 27, 2021 9:29 AM E | CHRISTIAN DATOC, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT

[Red Badger]

President Joe Biden will sign a new executive order Tuesday that will raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $15 an hour, from the current rate of just under $11.

The new order will be fully implemented by March 2022. The White House said that Biden’s planned action doesn’t include a past pledge to instate a new benefits package into federal contracts.

Biden originally signed an executive order Jan. 22 that directed the Office of Management and Budget to provide him with options for both instituting a $15 minimum wage and providing “emergency paid leave to workers.”

Pressed on the issue by reporters during a briefing ahead of the Tuesday signing, senior administration officials officials confirmed that emergency paid leave was not included in Tuesday’s order but could still be addressed at a later date.

The administration could not answer exactly how many workers would see increased wages once the order is implemented but estimated hundreds of thousands of existing and new workers would be affected.

Officials also shrugged off a question that the higher wages could lead to a potential decrease in worker productivity by claiming the order “would enhance worker productivity and then create higher quality work by boosting workers’ health, morale and effort.”

The order itself mandates a $15 minimum wage appear in all new federal contracts for employees beginning in January 2022, and existing employees can begin renegotiating contracts to the $15 rate in March of the same year. The order also adjusts for inflation after 2022 and restores minimum wage eligibility to guides and outfitters working on federal lands and extends it to federal contract workers with disabilities.

[Cedar]

“This means a janitor cleaning toilets in an Army base somewhere in Arkansas will be making $15 an hour...”

Gotta say that kind of job probably deserves at least $18 an hour. Cleaning toilets at an Army base!

[Laslo Fripp]

+1

[Laslo Fripp]

This is not the capitalism kitchen. GFY

[Red Badger]

He’s a Dem. He can do no wrong.................

[Elsie]

... federal contract workers ...

I wonder, just what IS the lowest wage any one of these dudes are getting already?

[Elsie]

The administration could not answer exactly how many workers would see increased wages once the order is implemented ...

Why not?

Isn't wages paid part of the public record?

How idiotic is it to ADMIT you have no frigging idea what the impact of your new 'bill' will be?

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How many spotted owls will be saved?

[Elsie]

Officials also shrugged off a question that the higher wages could lead to a potential decrease in worker productivity by claiming the order “ would enhance worker productivity and then create higher quality work by boosting workers’ health, morale and effort.”

Hey!

Y'all left out them other weasel words: should, might, maybe, it's possible, perhaps...

[Elsie]

If the Fed Min wage goes up, they ALL get a raise automatically per contract.

Only with NEW contracts.

[Elsie]

No need to ‘interpret’, as that is EXACTLY what was typed.

[Elsie]

Why am I suddenly hankerin’ fer a Pizza! Pizza!?

[Elsie]

They can’t get people to work.

Neither can my local MickeyD's.

Even with a $300 headhunter bonus!

[Elsie]

It’s nothing to squawk about!

[Elsie]

I will always cross the road to buy a local chicken.

[Elsie]

I started working for the NAvy Department in Indianapolis in ‘64.

Made $2.55 an hour.

[Elsie]

Are there not penalties for breaking a contract?

[Elsie]

good point

[drSteve78]

a sign at the Drive-thru (inside D

-——IN FLORIDA, BUT NO JOKE, seen this or similar sign at four places in the last month. TWO WITH A SIGN ‘HIRING TODAY’ , and a table with pens and forms, at the drive thru line.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Current and future minimum wages by state.

https://www.paycor.com/resource-center/articles/minimum-wage-by-state/#:~:text=State%20%3A%202020%20Minimum%20Wage%20%3A%202021%20Minimum,D.C.%20%2415.00%20%3A%20%2415.00%20%3A%20Florida%20%3A%20%248.56

[drSteve78]

Figure made up, but probably over-optimistic.

-——if you can do that well enough and often, there’s a government job for you somewhere!

[SisterK]

it’s a job killer