Lamont Signs Minimum Wage Increase; Business Lobby Continues Protest [View all]

HARTFORD, CT — As Gov. Ned Lamont signed into law a bill that will increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2023, Connecticut’s largest business lobby continued to urge the former cable executive not sign it, or any other legislation they believe will be detrimental to business and the economy.

Surrounded by labor at the Parkville Care Center nursing home in Hartford, Lamont signed the bill.

“This is a big deal,” Lamont said.

After the press conference, Lamont said this bill is a “big win for Connecticut and a big win for working families. This is a 10% raise for people on Oct. 1. That’s $40 a week.”

Under the new law the current minimum wage of $10.10 an hour will increase to $11 in October, $12 on Sept. 1, 2020, $13 on Aug. 1, 2021, $14 on July 1, 2022, and then $15 on June 1, 2023.

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