Arizona republicans attempt to screw young workers and students.

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What a shocker...

Republicans advance bill to lower Arizona minimum wage for young workers despite legal concerns

Ryan Randazzo, Arizona Republic

Does a measure to decrease the minimum wage for young Arizona workers alter what voters approved when they increased the wage in 2016?

House Bill 2523 would allow businesses to pay the lower federal minimum wage to part-time workers younger than 22 if they also are full-time students.

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Grantham's bill would let businesses pay the federal minimum wage and negotiate other work arrangements with people younger than 22, who are working on a "casual basis" and who are enrolled as full-time students.

The bill defines "casual basis" as people who work no more than 20 hours a week or who might work more than 20 hours a week but not regularly or only for intermittent periods.

The Legislative Council memo debated by lawmakers said HB 2523 would change the voter-approved wages and thus be subject to the Arizona Voter Protection Act, otherwise known as Proposition 105.

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https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/legislature/2019/03/28/bill-lower-arizona-minimum-wage-young-people-advances-capitol-legislature/3293474002/

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1. I hope AZ voters fight this and retain the higher min. wage. The state of MO repug-controlled...

legislature did the same thing in MO, after KCMO and STLMO voters approved a higher min. wage than the state mandated and the repugs in MO congress passed a law mandated that cities couldn't have a min. wage different than state min. wage, and so workers who had a higher min. wage in the cities had to take a pay cut.

'Disgusting' is too weak of a word to use.

Again, repugs aren't for workers, aren't for us, normal Americans, but for the 1%ers, and no one else. Otherwise, why would they (repugs) do this? Why cut wages?