President Joe Biden’s initiative boosting the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour will face its biggest legal test during oral argument at a federal appeals court in Denver.
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Wednesday is set to consider a recreational company’s challenge to Biden’s April 2021 order lifting the pay floor for federal contractors by about $4.
A court order blocking the wage hike would throw one of Biden’s most significant pro-worker policies—issued after Democrat-backed legislation to raise federal minimum pay failed in the Senate—into legal uncertainty.
A federal district court in Colorado ...
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