California minimum wage hike won’t help many students, exclude 20 hour week and lower employees

By Kaye Wonderhouse

The University of California has been praised for leading the way with a plan to raise the minimum wage of their staff to $15 per hour over the next couple of years. Sadly, most students won’t benefit from the raise as the plan excludes anyone working less than 20 hours per week.

“The one minor detail that nobody really covered is that many employees are left out,” Alberto Perez, a UC-Santa Barbara student, told the Daily Nexus.

Perez said the university has an “unspoken rule that suggests students don’t work” more than 20 hours a week, even though some students need longer hours “to be in school in the first place,” financially speaking.

“UC Fair Wage Fair Work Plan” raised the minimum wage for full-time employees and contractors to $13 earlier this month, and it will rise to $14 in a year and $15 in October 2017.

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[Source]: The Global Dispatch