Nevada Minimum Wage Changes

April 15th, 2007 Posted by Mark

Like many voters across the states of this great union, the voters in the state of Nevada had a busy voting day this past November. They got to vote on many ballot initiatives. There were two that dealt with workplace smoking bans. The so called Question 4 on the Nevada ballot in November would have been a mild ban on smoking, only affecting bars and restaurants were children can be present. The voters shot down that ballot by the count of 52 percent saying no, and 48 percent saying yes to it.

Instead, voters in the state of Nevada chose to vote for the so called Clean Indoor Air Act, which is a stricter smoking ban pushed and designed by public health officials. They voted 54 percent for this new law, and 46 percent against this new law. What the Clean Indoor Air Act does is ban smoking in any bars that serve food, as well as those slot machine sections that Nevada allows in grocery stores and convenience stores.

Smoking is also banned around video game arcades, in shopping malls of all kinds, anywhere on school grounds by anybody, not just students, and in day care centers. The smoking ban does not cover gambling areas in the major casinos in such places as Las Vegas or Reno, so employers there do not have to enforce that ban, but surely employers of the aforementioned establishments do have to enforce the will of the Nevada voter.

And as you can tell by the title of this post, those voters in Nevada last November also passed an initiative that affected how employers pay their lowest paid workers in the state the minimum wage. By a count of 69 percent saying yes and 31 percent saying no, the Nevada voters said that the Nevada minimum wage should be increased to $6.15 per hour.

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