{"id":10582,"date":"2016-03-02T17:54:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vailvalleypartnership.com\/?p=10582"},"modified":"2016-03-02T17:54:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:54:28","slug":"minimum-wage-ballot-initiative-filed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vailvalleypartnership.com\/2016\/03\/minimum-wage-ballot-initiative-filed\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Wage Ballot Initiative Filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"null\">Late last week (end of February), Colorado Families for a Fair Wage filed two constitutional ballot initiatives for the November\u00a02016 ballot to increase the state minimum wage (currently $8.31\/hour).\u00a0 The initiatives are identical with the exception that 101 adjusts the wage annually for a cost of living increase as measured by the CPI while 102 adjusts for inflation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal;margin: 0px\"><strong>Ballot Initiative 101<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"line-height: normal;margin: 0px\">Increases the state minimum wage to $9.30\/hour effective January\u00a02017.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: normal;margin: 0px\">Increases the minimum wage annually thereafter by $0.90 each January 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0until it reaches $12\/hour effective January 2020 and thereafter it shall be adjusted annually for a\u00a0cost of living increase\u00a0as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Colorado.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: normal;margin: 0px\">No more than $3.02\/hour in tip income may be used to offset the minimum wage of employees who regularly receive tips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal;margin: 0px\"><strong>Ballot Initiative 102<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"line-height: normal;margin: 0px\">Increases the state minimum wage to $9.30\/hour effective January\u00a02017.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: normal;margin: 0px\">Increases the minimum wage annually thereafter by $0.90 each January 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0until it reaches $12\/hour effective January 2020 and thereafter it shall be adjusted annually for\u00a0inflation\u00a0as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Colorado.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: normal;margin: 0px\">No more than $3.02\/hour in tip income may be used to offset the minimum wage of employees who regularly receive tips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last week (end of February), Colorado Families for a Fair Wage filed two constitutional ballot initiatives for the November\u00a02016&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vailvalleypartnership.com\/2016\/03\/minimum-wage-ballot-initiative-filed\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1831,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-update"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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