Minimum wage up by $1 an hour in NJ, bringing it to $12 for most low-income workers

[TexasTowelie]

The hourly minimum wage in New Jersey goes up by $1 for most low-income workers starting Friday, bringing it to $12.

The mandatory pay increase is the latest installment in the state’s ongoing ramp-up to a $15 hourly minimum wage and comes during the economic downturn triggered by an international pandemic that has hit low-income workers particularly hard.

Other minimum-wage workers in New Jersey, including those employed by farmers and seasonal and small businesses, will also get modest raises as the calendar turns to 2021.

The state’s hourly minimum wage is gradually being increased to $15 for most workers by 2024, under a law enacted by Gov. Phil Murphy in 2019. Additional $1 wage hikes are scheduled to occur annually over the next three years.

Read more: https://www.njspotlight.com/2020/12/nj-1-minimum-wage-increase-12-agricultural-workers-get-less-10-44-pandemic-worst-hit-sen-declan-oscanlon-says-insanity-businesses-struggling/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I got a form letter in the mail from my boss. (We're in NJ)

Congratulated me and all the other employees for a job well done in 2020, with the Pandemic and all.

And as a reward, he stated he was going to give us all a raise, to $12.00 hourly, starting January 1, 2021. Nice. This was 2 weeks ago.

Today, I found out (like the OP) that NJ is mandating $12 an hour be paid as minimum wage.

It's not a raise when it's the same rate that NJ is mandating. And it's legally minimum wage.