Kansas City media is ignoring recent news out of STL that's important for Kansas City small biz owners and legislators to understand.
To wit . . .
KANSAS CITY ADVOCATES TOUTING MORE FAIR WAGE FIGHTING SHOULD LEARN FROM A RECENT COURT RULING IN STL STRIKING DOWN MINIMUM WAGE LEGISLATION!!!
Over the Summer Councilman Jermaine Reed and Mayor Sly James wasted everyone's time with a discussion of a local move that clearly violated Missouri state law. What was worse is that newsies feigned ignorance of the law just to keep this bit of community theater in the news.
Here's the word:
"A state judge has struck down a St. Louis ordinance that sought to raise the city’s minimum wage. Judge Steven Ohmer of St. Louis Circuit Court declared the ordinance invalid and barred the city from enforcing it. His ruling Wednesday came a day before a 60-cent increase was to set the city’s minimum wage at $8.25 an hour. St. Louis would have been the only city in Missouri with a minimum wage higher than the state’s requirement of $7.65 an hour."
Links:
New York Times: Judge Strikes Down Law Increasing St. Louis’s Minimum Wage
Post-Dispatch: Judge strikes down St. Louis' minimum wage increase hours before it takes effect
Raw Story: Mayor Francis Slay said he planned to appeal the ruling by St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Steven Ohmer.
Sadly, a dedicated cadre of protesters and complicit "journalists" continue propagating this story in the name of social justice or whatever . . .
Developing . . .
But you people don't understand. Nothing in the law says that it specifically applies to Sly James so these judges and their decisions just don’t count. Ask King Sly he's a lawyer.
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