St. Paul introduced a new ordinance that would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour in three phases. For employers with more than 100 people, it would start to rise over the state minimum in 2020, reach $15 by 2023 and be indexed to inflation starting in 2024. For employers with 5 to 100 employees, the phase-in would start in 2020 and reach $15 by July 1, 2025.
That is two years behind Minneapolis. For employers with 5 or fewer employees, the phase-in would begin in 2020 and reach $15 by July 1, 2027.
St. Paul’s proposal has an 85 percent wage exception for youth training and apprenticeship programs and a youth wage of 85 percent of the city small business minimum for their first 90 days of employment. There is also an exemption for professional baseball players who sign negotiated contracts, a loophole apparently intended for the St. Paul Saints players.
There is no exemption for tipped employees.
Those are elements of the initial proposal for the minimum wage ordinance, which gets its first public reading Wednesday. Details of the new ordinance will likely be hashed out in coming weeks.
October 2018
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/10/10/minnesota-minimum-wage-laws-faq
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