Supporters of increasing Missouri’s minimal wage and restricting pay day loans submitted petitions yesterday to obtain the split measures from the November ballot, beating on the weekend’s due date to show in signatures.
The proposed enhance regarding the minimum wage would place Missouri’s minimal pay at $8.25 one hour starting in 2013, with an yearly cost-of-living modification in subsequent years. Nonetheless, in the event that federal minimum wage had been to go up over the state price, then Missouri would follow the federal wage thereby applying cost-of-living corrections compared to that.
Missouri work with Justice, a backer regarding the minimal wage proposition, stated it presented 175,000 signatures towards the Missouri Secretary of State’s workplace. The exact same company supported a effective campaign in 2006 to accept a ballot measure that raised Missouri’s minimal wage to $6.50, with increases whenever residing costs get up. (więcej…)
