AN ACT INCREASING THE MINIMUM FAIR WAGE.


General Assembly		*Proposed Bill No. 6298*
*January Session, 2007*		LCO No. 2096

Referred to Committee on Labor and Public Employees
Introduced by:
REP. O'BRIEN, 24th Dist.

AN ACT INCREASING THE MINIMUM FAIR WAGE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That section 31-58 of the general statutes be amended to increase the state minimum fair wage to eight dollars and sixty-five cents per hour, effective January 1, 2008, to nine dollars and sixty-five cents per hour, effective January 1, 2009, to ten dollars and sixty-five cents per hour, effective January 1, 2010, and effective January 1, 2011, to eleven dollars and sixty-five cents per hour.

Statement of Purpose:

To help workers better able afford to provide for their families.