DE Min Wage by the numbers
The minimum wage in Delaware is set to increase on October 1, 2019 to a measly $9.25 an hour.
Delaware unjustly now has a multi-tiered minimum wage system including a youth and training rate. Both of these rates legalize wage theft by allowing employers to pay $.50 an hour below the State’s minimum wage to youth workers who are under the age of 18, and those over the age of 18 during their first 90 consecutive days of employment. Effective October 1, 2019 this wage theft rate rate is $8.75.
Additional miserly $.50 rate increases will be implemented October 1, 2020 and October 1, 2021.
The state of Delaware has new labor law posters that are required to be displayed at all workplaces in a spot that is accessible by all employees. They can be found on the Department of Labor’s website https://dol.delaware.gov/.
Thanks for the update
Thank you Mike Ramone from all of the under 18 year olds and job starters. They’ll still be eligible for food-stamps and medicaid. Special thanks to Petey Schwartzkopf who has desk draw vetoed my bill that would repeal Ramone’s “lifeguard fair pay act” that will add to his swim club profit margins. Thanks to all the greedy, lying bastards on both sides of the aisle who voted for that piece of shit bill because Danny (my wallet certainly isn’t) Short who threatened to hold the Bond Bill hostage. And a special shout out to all of the gutless bastards who said we struck a deal and made a promise that we had to keep rather than stay in session until the Bond Bill was finally and inevitably passed. And a full throated “F-U” to any and all that said “WE” made a deal. What you mean “WE” Kimo-sabe.
Representative John Kowalko
Well said sir! Well said!