WASHINGTON: D.C. Chamber of Commerce President Harry Wingo is formally fighting back over the ballot initiative in D.C. to raise the minimum wage to $15-per-hour by 2020.The Washington Post reports Wingo filed a civil lawsuit as an individual against the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics to stop that petition drive in its tracks.
Business groups have opposed the proposed initiative, even after the Board of Elections approved language of the initiative, which seeks to get voter input in November 2016.The proposal is to gradually raise the minimum wage, now at $10.50 an hour.Wingo’s lawsuit, the Post reports, aims at the wording of the initiative.“By mandating increases in the wages of some, but not all, employees in the District of Columbia, the initiative arbitrarily and unfairly discriminates,” the suit said, according to the Post.
