...He has a pen and a phone.................
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.
Some of us are. I've been going to at least one demonstration every week, and we activists are meeting regularly. We communicate using alternative media such as Telegram and Gab.
And now I'm gonna enlighten you. The fact that only one military officer told Pelosi "NO" is a failure of that branch of service to properly inculcate, vet, and train their servicemen and officers to the point where Pelosi, and Newsom, should have both feared the blowback from their absurd, treasonous asks, to the point where neither. asked.
You removed yourself from the private sector - fine, great, whatever, but don't come in the capitalism kitchen here and ask us to give you an ass-pat. Not happening.
I guess we don’t really need Congress.
All we need is King Joe Bidet
...He has a pen and a phone.................
It’ll give Linda Gramnesty an opportunity to stand up and bloviate.
IF I have a signed Federal Con tract that is still in effect, and I was contracted to pay $11 an hour-—WHAT NOW???
EXACTLY RIGHT
Read the fine print and see if there’s a clause that covers the situation. I worked for one contractor that had an exclusion such that if the Fed min wage went up they weren’t required to raise their employees wages until the next contract.....................
Doesn’t congress control the purse?
In theory........................
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Officials officials are really super officials officials!
I think many union contract wages are based on a multiple of the minimum wage. If this is correct then many more wages will automatically cachet up.
Can the minimum wage even be changed by executive order? I thought the existing minimum was by federal law and some state laws that were greater than the federal minimum.
Agreed. It’s still no fun and it’s still going to suck. :(
Indeed it already does and will until these next years are over....perhaps even beyond. I’m basically preparing for the worst.
Not sure on the math but commenter said we spent 7 trillion in the last 365 days since the start of COVID.
No. Wrong.
No. Wrong.
What legal right does POS biden have to raise wages with federal contractors on already negotiated and legally signed government contracts?
So how can biden change the terms of a binding contract?
Yup and it will only get more streamlined. Computer software providers will have a field day.
Pick up your order at the kitchen counter. No wait staff and bus your own dishes.
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