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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What many legislative bodies with outdated minimum wages need are minimum wage committees or commissions, i.e. institutions that arbitrate between democratic employer and employee (e.g. unions) associations on a regular time frame (say 1 or 2 years) who create binding minimum wage tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Oregon changed their minimum wage to step up over several years, split slightly between the major urban centers and rural areas, and go up based on consumer price index after that. Works well.

https://www.oregon.gov/boli/workers/Pages/minimum-wage-schedule.aspx