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Business Group Knocks Accelerated Minimum Wage Proposal, While Dems Urge Continued Unemployment
Business Group Knocks Accelerated Minimum Wage Proposal, While Dems Urge Continued Unemployment BenefitsA Maryland business group panned a proposal to accelerate the state’s increase to a $15 minimum wage on Thursday, while Democrats in Annapolis continued to decry Republican Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s action to end extended unemployment benefits in early July.
Mike O’Halloran, the head of NFIB-Maryland, which represents small businesses in Maryland, said the minimum wage proposal — to speed up the state’s transition to a $15 minimum by 2 1/2 years — would add “insult to injury for small business owners trying to recover and keep Marylanders employed.”
House Economic Matters Chairman Dereck E. Davis (D-Prince George’s) told Maryland Matters on Wednesday that he would pursue the change in the minimum wage law after Hogan’s decision to end expanded federal unemployment benefits early.
“I don’t think we need to take away the benefits. I think we need to increase the wages,” Davis said. “It’s simple economics.”
Read more: https://www.marylandmatters.org/2021/06/04/business-group-knocks-accelerated-minimum-wage-proposal-while-dems-urge-continued-unemployment-benefits/