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In a major victory for low-wage workers, the Washington state Senate passed the statewide Domestic Workers Bill of Rights (SB 5023), taking Washington a significant step closer to ending the exclusions that shut domestic workers out of the right to minimum wage, sick time, breaks, and other basic labor standards.
Seattle’s historic minimum wage law is set to finally take full effect on January 1, 2025. Ten years after the law passed, the city’s minimum wage will reach $20.76, without any special subminimum wage rate for tipped workers. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell also released his statement today, saying, "Seattle has one of the highest minimum wages in the country – this is a good thing for workers, a good thing for our overall economy, and something we should take pride in." Workers are reacting to the city's long-awaited minimum wage increase.
A detailed analysis of delivery workers’ actual time and expenses shows CB 120775 would in fact leave delivery workers with net pay of just $13.17/hour — a full $6.80/hour less than Seattle’s minimum wage.
