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At a time when employers, desperate to find workers, are paying well above minimum page, the long elusive goal of a $15-an-hour base wage seems less consequential. ....
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA San Diego’s new minimum wage hike: Will it help or hurt during a pandemic? [The San Diego Union-Tribune] As many of the county’s beaten-down businesses enter the new year still in the grips of a crippling COVID lockdown, they face yet another financial tug on an already precarious future an 8 percent jump in the minimum wage. The timing, they say, couldn’t be worse as many struggle to eke out what little revenue they can until vaccines take hold, the pandemic eases and some semblance of a profit returns. To be sure, employment in sectors like leisure and hospitality is already down by double digits, but for those businesses that are still operating, even at minimal staffing, labor costs will rise this year as the minimum wage jumps a dollar an hour across the county. In the city of San Diego, it will rise from $13 an hour to $14 , while in the rest of the county, the $14 hourly rate will apply to companies with 26 or more employ ....