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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2019 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES | |
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Introduced By: Senators Lawson, Euer, Goodwin, McCaffrey, and Ruggerio | |
Date Introduced: February 13, 2019 | |
Referred To: Senate Labor | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Chapter 28-12 of the General Laws entitled "Minimum Wages" is hereby |
2 | amended by adding thereto the following section: |
3 | 28-12-3.3. Minimum wages for health care workers. |
4 | Commencing July 1, 2019, every covered health care employer with eighteen (18) or |
5 | more employees that either receives five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) or more in funding |
6 | annually from the state or pays an executive one million dollars ($1,000,000) or more annually in |
7 | total compensation shall pay each of its employees no less than fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour. |
8 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- MINIMUM WAGES | |
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1 | This act would provide that every health care employer with at least eighteen (18) |
2 | employees, that either receives five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) or more in funding |
3 | annually from the state or pays an executive one million dollars ($1,000,000) or more annually in |
4 | total compensation shall pay no less than fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour to each employee. |
5 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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