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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

Posted on 04/27/2021 7:08:19 AM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: biden; bideneconomy; fightforfifteen; impeachbiden; unconstitutional
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To: Flavious_Maximus

“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!


101 posted on 04/27/2021 5:56:59 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: Turbo Pig

+1


102 posted on 04/27/2021 6:46:59 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: StAnDeliver

This is not the capitalism kitchen. GFY


103 posted on 04/27/2021 7:11:09 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Brown Deer

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


104 posted on 04/28/2021 5:37:13 AM PDT by Red Badger ("We've always been at war with Climate Change, Winston."..............................)
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To: butlerweave
... federal contract workers ...

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

105 posted on 04/28/2021 1:46:13 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: cranked
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?


How many spotted owls will be saved?

106 posted on 04/28/2021 1:49:25 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Red Badger
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...

107 posted on 04/28/2021 1:51:25 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Red Badger
If the Fed Min wage goes up, they ALL get a raise automatically per contract.

Only with NEW contracts.

108 posted on 04/28/2021 1:52:44 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: QualityMan

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


109 posted on 04/28/2021 1:53:24 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Red Badger

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


110 posted on 04/28/2021 1:54:31 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: redgolum
They can’t get people to work.

Neither can my local MickeyD's.

Even with a $300 headhunter bonus!

111 posted on 04/28/2021 1:56:01 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Red Badger

It’s nothing to squawk about!


112 posted on 04/28/2021 2:16:10 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: redgolum

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


113 posted on 04/28/2021 2:18:40 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Eleutheria5

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

Made $2.55 an hour.


114 posted on 04/28/2021 2:20:10 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: ridesthemiles

Are there not penalties for breaking a contract?


115 posted on 04/28/2021 2:21:48 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Red Badger

good point


116 posted on 04/28/2021 2:22:09 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Red Badger

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.


117 posted on 04/28/2021 4:45:44 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMOREz)
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To: drSteve78

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


118 posted on 04/28/2021 4:51:20 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Where words can mean anything they can also mean nothing.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Figure made up, but probably over-optimistic.

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


119 posted on 04/28/2021 4:53:18 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMOREz)
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To: Bon of Babble

it’s a job killer


120 posted on 04/29/2021 11:51:53 AM PDT by SisterK (Let the King of my heart Be the fire inside my veins)
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