More than 200,000 Chicagoland Workers Set for Pay Raises on July 1st
Beginning July 1, Chicago’s hourly workforce are expected to see the first phase of a minimum wage increase from $8.25 to $10 an hour as part of the City of Chicago’s planned minimum wage increase to $13 an hour by 2019.
“On July 1st, more than 200,000 workers in the City of Chicago will receive a much needed raise, an essential step in making sure that hard work pays off. If you work hard in the City of Chicago, you should be able to afford to live here and raise your children here,” said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “As a City, we must also continue to do our part to ensure that workers understand their rights and business owners understand their responsibilities in implementing this important law so that every hard working resident in the City of Chicago has a chance to succeed.”
To ensure that workers know about their rights in the workplace, the City of Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection (BACP) will host a series of information sessions throughout the city to prepare businesses and workers for the first minimum wage increase for Chicago workers since 2010.
The BACP will also make available on their website the regulations and other informational materials, including a Notice to Employers and Employees, which business owners are required to display at their business.
Additionally, the City will launch an outreach campaign, including information in its monthly business and consumer newsletters, alerts through the BACP homepage, direct mailings, and social media updates.
“In just a few weeks, hundreds of thousands of hard-working Chicago residents will receive a raise and be better able to keep their families out of poverty. It is important that those workers also understand their rights, are being paid that higher wage, and can contribute to the continued growth of Chicago’s economy,” said John Bouman, President, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.
In Dec. 2014, the Chicago City Council passed the Mayor’s ordinance to raise the minimum wage for all Chicago workers to $13 per in steps, starting with an increase to a $10 minimum wage on July 1, 2015.
Following the 2015 increase, the minimum increases to $10.50 in 2016, $11in 2017, $12 in 2018, and to a final minimum wage of $13 by 2019.
On September 2, 2014, Mayor Emanuel took the first step toward an increased minimum wage citywide and signed an Executive Order requiring all City of Chicago contractors and subcontractors pay their employees a minimum of $13 per hour for work performed under a City contract. On September 30, Mayor Emanuel requested that all City of Chicago sister agencies join him in this effort.
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