CALIFORNIA: Pasadena, California, lawmakers have taken action to raise the city’s minimum wage, following the lead of neighboring Los Angeles Pasadena of the minimum wage for fast food workers by the New York State Fast Food Wage Board during a rally in New York City, July 22, 2015.
Advocates urged the City Council to implement minimum wage regulations that would mirror the measures enacted in nearby Los Angeles, which require incremental hourly increases through the year 2020.
The proposed law would apply to anyone who works in Pasadena aside from state and federal government employees and those who are self employed. An estimated 15,000 individuals, or about 15 percent of those who work in Pasadena, earned less than $15 per hour, according to one advocate group.
