Republican attorneys general in three states filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday challenging President Joe Biden's move to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour.
– Republican attorneys general in three states filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday challenging President Joe Biden’s move to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour.
Biden announced the raise via an executive order last April. The Department of Labor finalized the regulation in November, with a rule that made the $15 an hour minimum The White House defended both the President’s authority to raise the minimum wage for federal contractors, as well as the benefits of the action.
“The Wage Mandate will also, as Defendants are well aware, unavoidably require many businesses to dismiss employees, particularly low-wage employees, or pass the increased costs of retaining those employees onto Texas consumers,” the lawsuit said. “This will inevitably result in increased unemployment, inflation, or both, which will irreparably and substantially harm Texas and its individual citizens.
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