California Governor Jerry Brown on September 25, 2013, signed into law a bill that increases the state’s hourly minimum wage rate from $8.00 an hour up to $10.00 an hour by January 1, 2016. The new law (AB 10) amends Section 1182.12 of the California Labor Code and does not automatically increase the wage rate annually based on inflation. The rate increase will take effect in two stages: a $1.00 increase on July 1, 2014, to $9.00 an hour, and another $1.00 increase on January 1, 2016, to $10.00 an hour. The last time California increased its minimum wage was on January 1, 2007.
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