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 A compliance protection plan is helpful for employers who want to insure that their labor law posters are up to date.

 

Many states, however, increased their minimum wages on January 1 of 2009. The 2009 minimum wage posters should be updated now. The federal minimum wage law increases on July 24, 2009.

 

Subscribing to the compliance protection plan helps insure that, for a nominal fee, employers will be sent t the required updated posters whenever necessary. The posters are durable and easy to read as well.

 

Federal minimum wage posters should have been updated in July of 2008, when the minimum wage increased from $5.85 to $6.55 per hour. They will be updated yet again on July 24, 2009 when the minimum wage increases.

 

With inflation higher than normal in 2008 because of the cost of both gasoline and food, some states which provide annual cost-of-living hikes will see increases that are greater than usual.

 

The Florida minimum wage, for example, is going up 42 cents, from $6.79 an hour to $7.21. In Oregon, the minimum wage is up by 45 cents an hour, compared to last year’s 12 cents. In Missouri, the minimum wage rate goes up 40 cents an hour. While in 2008 it was $6.65 an hour in 2008, and is $7.05 in 2009.

 

The highest minimum wage nationwide is in Washington, where a hike of 48 cents brings the total to $8.55 per hour. The smallest increase is in Colorado, where the rate climbs by 26 cents hourly, bringing it to $7.28.

 

Other states, while they do not have automatic cost of living increases, pass minimum wage hikes either through citizen action or through action of the legislature.

 

In New Mexico, the minimum wage climbed by $1 an hour, taking it from $6.50 to $7.50. Although New Mexico’s hourly rate is hardly the largest nationwide, the new increase qualifies as the largest such hike in 2009.

 

The minimum wage law saw some changes going into effect in 2008 as well. Whenever a labor law such as the minimum wage law changes, employers should update their posters accordingly. They are, in fact, required by law to display posters in a highly visible location.

 

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