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TexasTowelie

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Thu Feb 9, 2017, 09:08 AM Feb 2017

Dayton: Bills to override local wage, sick rules aim to tamp salaries

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton is not a fan of the Republican Legislature’s move to override cities’ wage and sick rules.

“This is about the business community trying to keep wages down in Minneapolis and St. Paul,” the Democratic-Farmer-Labor governor said Wednesday. (Duluth may soon consider a paid leave ordinance as well.)

House and Senate panels have approved bills to negate labor law mandates already approved in both cities. A House version has made it through two committees, while the Senate version has passed one committee. Both still have to pass one or more additional committees before reaching the floor. Republicans have beat back attempts by Democrats to defeat or water down the bills.

Backers of the legislative measures say that allowing each Minnesota city to set its own regulations on minimum wage, mandatory paid leave, scheduling, benefits and working conditions would result in a patchwork of rules across the state. That, supporters say, would make compliance burdensome or impossible.

Read more: http://www.twincities.com/2017/02/08/mark-dayton-minnesota-legislature-bills-wage-sick-rules-effort-to-keep-salaries-down/

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Dayton: Bills to override local wage, sick rules aim to tamp salaries (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2017 OP
Repukes despise the working class, mindem Feb 2017 #1

mindem

(1,580 posts)
1. Repukes despise the working class,
Thu Feb 9, 2017, 09:18 AM
Feb 2017

The idea that they and drumph are going to do anything to bring up the working poor and middle class is nothing but lip service and lies. Drumph himself said that the American worker just has to accept the fact that they are making too much money and wages have to come down. Everything the repukes are doing is for business - not the people.

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