The California minimum wage is officially heading for $15 an hour.
One week after announcing a deal with labor unions making a November ballot push, Governor Jerry Brown signed a law that will incrementally raise the statewide minimum wage. It will reach $15 an hour in 2023 for businesses with 25 or fewer employees, and a year earlier for all others.
Brown signed the measure in Los Angeles Monday.
“There’s a lot of anger going on in the presidential campaign,” Brown said. “And it may have many sources. But one of the sources, certainly, is the way the average American is being treated by this particular economy. Today, we do something about that!”
Although the law has drawn fierce opposition from business groups, there appears to be no talk of a push to overturn the law using California’s referendum process.
This story was produced by Capital Public Radio.
