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Introduced Session

Currently, the state minimum wage law requires that employers pay the applicable minimum wage set in statute to their employees. Under that law, the current minimum wage for most employees is $7.25 per hour. This bill raises the minimum wage for most employees to $10.85 per hour on the effective date of the bill and $15 per hour one year after the effective date of the bill. Beginning two years after the bill's effective date, the bill requires the Department of Workforce Development to annually revise the minimum wage established under the bill by determining the percentage difference between the consumer price index for the preceding year and the consumer price index for the year before the preceding year, adjusting the minimum wage then in effect by that percentage difference, and rounding that result to the nearest multiple of five cents. DWD, however, is not required to revise the general minimum wage if the consumer price index for the preceding year has not increased over the consumer price index for the year before the preceding year. DWD is required to publish the revised minimum wage in the Wisconsin Administrative Register and on DWD's website. LRB-5704/1 MIM:emw 2023 - 2024 Legislature SENATE BILL 1038 The bill also repeals 1) provisions establishing a separate, lower minimum wage for tipped employees; 2) a provision that requires DWD to promulgate rules governing the counting of tips or similar gratuities toward payment of the minimum wage; 3) provisions setting specific meal and lodging allowances; and 4) provisions establishing minimum wages for minor employees, opportunity employees, agricultural employees, and others and instead requires DWD to establish the minimum wage for those employees by rule. Finally, current law prohibits a city, village, town, or county from enacting and administering an ordinance establishing a minimum wage. The bill eliminates that prohibition. For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

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Melissa Agard (D)*,  Chris Larson (D)*,  Kelda Roys (D)*,  Mark Spreitzer (D)*,  Bob Wirch (D)*,  Clint Anderson (D),  Jimmy Anderson (D),  Samba Baldeh (D),  Mike Bare (D),  Ryan Clancy (D),  Sue Conley (D),  Jodene Emerson (D),  Francesca Hong (D),  Jenna Jacobson (D),  Alex Joers (D),  Supreme Moore Omokunde (D),  Greta Neubauer (D),  Tod Ohnstad (D),  Melissa Ratcliff (D),  Christine Sinicki (D),  Lisa Subeck (D),  Robyn Vining (D), 

Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1 (on 04/15/2024)

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