HAYWARD — Minimal wage staff in Hayward are set to learn from a pay enhance within the new yr.
The adjustment is to be made underneath town’s native minimal wage ordinance, which was permitted by the Metropolis Council in 2020.
Starting on Jan. 1, minimal wage staff who work for bigger employers (companies with 26 or extra staff) will see their hourly pay growing by 78 cents to $16.34, with subsequent annual changes of as much as 5% based mostly on the Client Worth Index for the San Francisco-Oakland area.
These working for employers with 25 or fewer staff shall be entitled to $15.50 per hour, a 98-cent enhance. Future will increase for small enterprise staff shall be in step with the quantities set by state legislation.
Each baselines are greater than the California minimal wage, which at the moment stands at $15 per hour for employers with 26 or extra staff, and $14 per hour for employers with 25 or fewer staff.
“We’re very delicate to the price of residing on this space, and we simply felt that the bottom paid staff wanted a increase,” mentioned Mayor Barbara Halliday in an interview.
“When this first got here to us in April 2020, the pandemic had simply began and we didn’t know what we have been going through. Our smaller companies particularly have been actually beginning to endure.
“I hope employers who're doing nicely sufficient are paying their staff much more than this, however we wish to help staff, but stay delicate to the difficulties that companies are going through.”