{"id":291877,"date":"2017-01-26T20:53:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/maryland-democrat-vetoes-15-county-wide-minimum-wage-bill\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T20:53:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:53:03","slug":"maryland-democrat-vetoes-15-county-wide-minimum-wage-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/maryland-democrat-vetoes-15-county-wide-minimum-wage-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Democrat vetoes $15 county-wide minimum wage bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Maryland Democrat vetoes $15 county-wide minimum wage bill<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Nick Barrickman<br \/>\n    <br \/>26 January 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On Monday, Montgomery County Executive Isiah \u201cIke\u201d Leggett announced his plans to veto legislation recently passed by the county\u2019s legislative chamber, which would raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2020. Bill 12-16 passed the Legislative Council of the county located in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC in a 5-4 vote last week, despite opposition from local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>If enacted, 12-16 would have required businesses employing more than 26 workers to gradually raise the county\u2019s current minimum wage of $10.75 to $15 by 2020, with businesses employing less than 25 people having an additional two years to raise the hourly pay.<\/p>\n<p>Leggett, a Democrat, cited fears that the bill would place Montgomery County at a \u201ccompetitive disadvantage \u2026 compared to our neighboring jurisdictions\u201d while calling for further study on the impact that raising the minimum wage would have on \u201cprivate employers\u2019 bottom line as well as the impact on county government.\u201d In addition, Leggett demanded that the minimum wage bill should contain complete exemptions for minors and small businesses, while allowing larger companies until 2022 to implement the changes.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Elrich (D-At Large), who sponsored the bill, defended the legislation by noting that previous studies into the expected impact that a wage raise would have in the county had been inconclusive. \u201cYou can\u2019t do an examination of what\u2019s going to happen in the private sector. \u2026 You can study what has happened, but you can\u2019t tell what will happen going forward,\u201d he stated. The bill was also supported by the MD\/DC Fight for $15 Coalition, which included the Service Employees International Union and the Metro Washington&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/01\/26\/wage-j26.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Maryland Democrat vetoes $15 county-wide minimum wage bill By Nick Barrickman 26 January 2017 On Monday, Montgomery County Executive Isiah \u201cIke\u201d Leggett announced his plans to veto legislation recently passed by the county\u2019s legislative chamber, which would raise the minimum wage to $15 by 2020. Bill 12-16 passed the Legislative Council of the county [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-291877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}