LD1757 - Minimum Wage Rollback

(2018)

An Act To Protect Maine’s Economy by Slowing the Rate at Which the State’s Minimum Wage Will Increase and Establishing a Training and Youth Wage

Sponsored by Representative Joel Stetkis (R – Canaan)

What is the bill?

The Maine AFL-CIO supported the 2016 minimum wage referendum because the costs of housing, food and other necessities have gone up for years while wages have remained stagnant. In November of 2016 more than 420,000 Mainers – 56% of voters – voted to raise wages for working people. These hard fought wage increases have been under attack ever since. The voter approved initiative that will raise the minimum wage to $12 by 2020 is working as intended. LD 1757 and LD 1913 were attempts to rollback Maine’s minimum wage law by delaying scheduled wage increases and eliminating an annual cost of living adjustment. LD 1757 was defeated. LD 1913 will be defeated as well.

What happened?

Defeated

Votes