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Article II, Section 34a of the Ohio Constitution locks in an automatic minimum wage adjustment every January 1, indexed to the Consumer Price Index. The 2024 Ohio minimum wage was $10.45 per hour for non-tipped employees and $5.25 for tipped employees, and those rates have since risen to $11.
Initiative 1433, which Washington voters approved in November 2016, built an automatic escalator into state law: the minimum wage rises every January 1 by the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), producing a 2024 rate of $16.
Chapter 62 of the Texas Labor Code contains no independent wage figure. It copies the federal minimum wage by reference, which means the texas minimum wage has been $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009, and won't change unless Congress acts.
Adopt-and-amend is the legislative tactic that shaped the minimum wage for Michigan for six years, and understanding how it worked, and how it collapsed, explains every dollar amount on a Michigan paycheck today.
Michigan's minimum wage is $13.73 per hour, effective January 1, 2026, after the Michigan Supreme Court's July 31, 2024 ruling reinstated voter-approved wage increases that the legislature had blocked for six years. The rate reaches $15.
The new york state minimum wage is a two-zone geographic system where workers in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester earn one hourly floor, and workers everywhere else in the state earn a lower one. As of January 1, 2024, those floors sat at $16.00 and $15.
A federal judge issued a permanent injunction on July 20, 2026, barring New York State from enforcing a 2025 law that expanded the state labor board's authority over private-sector workplace disputes, ruling that federal law grants the National Labor Relations Board exclusive jurisdiction over such
Unlike 30 states that set independent minimum wage floors above the federal rate, Texas adopted the federal number by reference and then built a legal architecture that prevents any city or county from going higher. The result: the minimum wage in Texas has been $7.
AB 1228, SB 525, Labor Code Section 1182.12, and at least 38 local ordinances all set binding minimum wages in California, and the highest rate that applies to a given worker is the one the employer must pay.
Sixty percent of Florida voters wrote a minimum wage schedule directly into the state constitution in November 2020, creating a self-executing pay escalator that no governor or state legislator can override. The florida state minimum wage currently sits at $14.
U.S. employers are charged with violating federal law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns, according to a study from the Economic Policy Institute. The violations follow a predictable script.
The Taft-Hartley Act's prohibition on solidarity strikes, enacted June 23, 1947, continues to restrict union use nearly 79 years later, according to analysis published this week by labor researcher Hayley Brown examining how the ban prevents cross-employer collective action that proved effective in
