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Nov 16 8:33 am
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Long Beach voters to weigh $25 minimum wage for health care employees in March 2024

Jason Ruiz

After opposing coalitions both gathered enough signatures to place the issue on the ballot, the Long Beach City Council voted Tuesday to put the wage hike before voters in 2024.

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Nov 7 12:24 pm
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Referendum seeking to block wage increase for health care employees qualifies for future ballot

Jason Ruiz

The $25 minimum wage will now be paused until voters weigh in, but because there are no local or regional elections in the immediate future, the vote will likely be pushed to 2024.

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Sep 21 4:44 pm
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Opponents of health care worker wage increase submit signatures for referendum

Jason Ruiz

The Long Beach City Council in August adopted a $25 minimum wage for health care workers, but a coalition of hospitals have turned in more than 40,000 signatures for a referendum on the wage increase, which could pause the implementation until March 2024.

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Aug 2 7:45 pm
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City Council votes to set $25 minimum wage for health care workers in Long Beach

Jason Ruiz

The unanimous vote by the Long Beach City Council will raise the minimum wage for health care workers in the city to $25 per hour, pending final approval next week.

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Aug 2 8:55 am
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Health care wage hike could cause short-term monetary gains, long-term job losses, report says

Jason Ruiz

The Long Beach City Council is considering raising the minimum wage for health care workers to $25 an hour or passing that decision along to voters.

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Jul 23 2:11 pm
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Want to vote on raising California’s minimum wage? Judge says not until 2024

Jeanne Kuang, CalMatters

Californians still won’t get a chance to vote on a minimum wage hike this November, after a judge ruled late Friday that the campaign was at fault for missing a key deadline to get the measure on the ballot.

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May 13 8:21 am
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Inflation triggers California minimum wage increase in 2023

Adam Beam, Associated Press

California’s minimum wage will jump to $15.50 per hour next year, an increase triggered by soaring inflation that will benefit about 3 million workers.

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Sep 7 2016 3:30 pm
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Long Beach Adopts California Minimum Wage Schedule With Local Wage Enforcement

Jason Ruiz

When it comes to the city’s minimum wage ordinance it turns out the “Long Beach Way” will look very much like the State of California’s way, after a unanimous vote by the city council last night to align the city’s wage raise schedule with the bill signed into law by the governor earlier this year.

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Aug 24 2016 10:45 pm
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Possible Minimum Wage Ordinance Revisions Pushed to September

Jason Ruiz

In yet another delay in the process of hammering out the minimum wage ordinance in Long Beach, the city council voted last night to delay discussion on a recently revised draft until a full council was present to discuss the matter.

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Mar 31 2016 11:36 pm
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Gov. Brown Set to Sign $15 Minimum Wage Bill, Boosting California’s Minimum Wage to Highest in U.S.

Jason Ruiz

In what’s being touted as an historic move by the California State Assembly and Senate, the legislative bodies moved quickly today to approve a measure that would raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour, the highest of any in the country by over four dollars.

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