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President Biden Orders a Minimum Wage Increase

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President Joe Biden signed an executive order on April 27, 2021, calling for the minimum wage to be set at $15 for hundreds of thousands of federal contract workers, including those with disabilities, by early 2022. This would increase their existing minimum wage of $10.95 by nearly 37%.

The order also establishes an inflation measure each year for an automatic adjustment based off the cost of living. It further eliminates the tipped minimum wage for federal contractors by 2024, a stipulation that will complete the previous Obama executive order, ensuring that tipped employees working on these contracts will earn the same minimum wage as other employees on federal contracts. This order also restores minimum wage protections to outfitters and guides operating on federal lands, revoking former President Trump’s executive order.

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If you want to research this current event, you can head over to the Law Journal Library advanced search option and search by Topic. As you can see in the example below, minimum wage just happens to be a topic we have available.

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This search provides more than 1,770 results. Use the facets on the left-hand side to refine your results further. Let’s choose United States from the Location facet.

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