The San Diego City Council July 14 approved a measure that would increase the city’s minimum wage to $11.50 per hour and mandate a minimum five days of paid sick leave for workers, including city employees.
The council on first reading approved the measure that would increase minimum wage workers’ hourly pay from the current state-required $9 to $9.75 effective Jan. 1, 2015, $10.50 effective Jan. 1, 2016, and $11.50 effective Jan. 1, 2017, and index pay to the consumer price index for urban wage earners after 2019.
Food service, retail and hospitality workers are among the 279,000 workers who ...
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