Labor/Employment
May 27, 2015
Doubts cast on whether L.A. can enforce $15 wage floor
A proposed citywide labor standards office could be inadequate to enforce the historic law, lawyers said.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council made national headlines for OK'ing a plan
to increase the hourly minimum wage to $15 by 2020 but advocates on both sides expressed
doubts the law can be enforced.
So far the city council's answer to enforcement is the creation of an "office of labor
standards&...
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