NFIB President on USA Today: Congress Must Listen to Small Businesses on Minimum Wage
NFIB President Brad Close writes that Congress should listen to how the proposed federal minimum wage increase would be especially harmful to small businesses.
NFIB President Brad Close writes that Congress should listen to how the proposed federal minimum wage increase would be especially harmful to small businesses.
Congress is considering increasing the federal minimum wage to $15.00. For some states, that would be little or no increase. For others, it’s more than double.
The US Senate has prevented the $15 per hour federal minimum wage from being part of the final $1.9T COVID-19 relief bill. But this issue is far from over.
Small business owners explain how a $15 per hour federal minimum wage would affect their business, including their workers who make more than $15 per hour.
NFIB filed a brief defending the Department of Labor’s final rule from January on joint-employer standards under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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