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House of Representatives
Session of 2017 - 2018 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: October 5, 2018 11:38 AM
From: Representative Anthony M. DeLuca
To: All House members
Subject: Resolution Commending Amazon for Increasing Minimum Wage
 
In the near future I will be introducing a resolution commending Amazon for increasing the minimum wage of its workers and encouraging other companies to do the same.

Announced October 2, Amazon’s move will benefit more than 350,000 workers, including full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal positions. Employees at Whole Foods, the upscale grocery chain Amazon owns, will get the same raise. Hourly employees who already make $15 per hour will also see a wage increase.

Also, consider that Governor Wolf signed an executive order increasing the minimum wage for employees under the Governor’s jurisdiction to $12 an hour on June 28, 2018. This order also increases this wage to $15 an hour by the year 2024.

Consider, the average age for someone working for the minimum wage is 36 years. Ponder that a one dollar and seventy-five cent increase in the minimum wage would provide 400,000 Pennsylvanians with an additional $845 million earnings each year.

We need to act swiftly and enact legislation that increases the minimum wage and give hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians the pay raise the deserve.



Introduced as HR1179