Labor Committee Split on Whether to Eliminate the Cost-of-Living Adjustment for Maine's Minimum Wage

Labor Committee Split on Whether to Eliminate the Cost-of-Living Adjustment for Maine's Minimum Wage

Maine lawmakers are divided over a proposal to do away with the cost-of-living adjustment for the state’s minimum wage. Under the proposed Republican-led legislation, the state minimum wage would be set at $14.65 per hour — the current rate — and all references to cost-of-living increases would be removed. LD 206 was sponsored by Sen. [...] The post Labor Committee Split on Whether to Eliminate the Cost-of-Living Adjustment for Maine’s Minimum W…

After a further failure of the Council of the Minimum Wage, Vital and Mobile, the government re-set it by decree, as it did during 2024.The decree raises an increase of 8.5% until August, with the April increase of 1.9%, below the inflation expected for that month, which is around 3%, after the 3.7% that it recorded in March.Will Nafta?oilers threaten an imminent strike if the government does not reopen the parity Lucas González MonteFor the fol…