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Get StartedAn act to Increase the Minimum Wage in Portland will increase the minimum wage in Portland to $15.00 an hour over three years: It increases the minimum that tipped employees must be paid by their employer to 50% of the minimum wage, although employers must make up the difference if tipped employees do not earn at least minimum wage when their tips are added in. It moves the effective date of annual cost-of-living increases to the minimum wage from July 1 to Jan. 1 to maintain consistency with state law. It also requires that employees be paid 1.5 times the minimum wage rate for any work performed during an emergency declared by the state or the municipality if that emergency applies to the employee’s geographical workplace. For instance, if the minimum wage were $12/hr, and the State of Maine or the City of Portland issued emergency proclamations such as the emergency orders declared during the COVID-19 pandemic, work performed during that emergency would be paid at 1.5 times the minimum wage, or $18/hr. This higher rate of pay would not apply to employees being allowed to work from home.
Do you favor the change in the City Ordinance(s) proposed by citizen petition as provided below? An act to Increase the Minimum Wage in Portland will increase the minimum wage in Portland to $15.00 an hour over three years: It increases the minimum that tipped employees must be paid by their employer to 50% of the minimum wage, although employers must make up the difference if tipped employees do not earn at least minimum wage when their tips are added in. It moves the effective date of annual cost-of-living increases to the minimum wage from July 1 to Jan. 1 to maintain consistency with state law. It also requires that employees be paid 1.5 times the minimum wage rate for any work performed during an emergency declared by the state or the municipality if that emergency applies to the employee’s geographical workplace. For instance, if the minimum wage were $12/hr, and the State of Maine or the City of Portland issued emergency proclamations such as the emergency orders declared during the COVID-19 pandemic, work performed during that emergency would be paid at 1.5 times the minimum wage, or $18/hr. This higher rate of pay would not apply to employees being allowed to work from home.
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