Maryland Living Wage Law Done Deal

May 12th, 2007 Posted by Mark

The living wage law in Maryland may affect as many as tens of thousands of working families across the state, although no one is sure absolutely how many employees it will affect. And as usual, no one has a stat on how many employers will be affected. And from what I can gather at the moment from my sources, there is not a consensus as to whether or not the state of Maryland will then require its employers, especially those contractors directly affected by the new law, to have to post a new Maryland living wage law poster, alongside the Maryland minimum wage poster.

Maryland, if you remember, what also the state that had passed the so called Wal Mart law, whereby it was requiring all employers over a certain size to pay for their employees health care. Though that law get passed by the legislature, the courts shot it down as unconstitutional and the law never took hold. The Maryland state assembly had also passed a new Maryland minimum wage just last year, which raised the Maryland minimum wage by a total of one dollar.

This new Maryland living wage did not quite get the attention and bad publicity that the Wal Mart bill did, though my sources cannot say exactly why. Some critics of the law, however, have come out to warn the state law makers that they could be hurting the state’s economic climate and its ability to attract new workers and employers.

Supporters of the bill, however, point to the fact that a living wage bill was passed in Maryland several years ago, but had been vetoed by the governor at the time, a fellow by the name of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. So they say the living wage bill is a long time in coming.

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