Grocery taxes go down in Virginia. The minimum wage for tipped workers goes up in D.C. Low-income Marylanders will get access to free dental care. Those are some changes that New Year’s Day will usher in as new laws take effect in the Washington region.
pushed through in early 2020 after flipping the state Senate and House of Delegates. At the time, the state’s minimum wage had been stuck at the federal floor of $7.25 an hour for more than a decade.
If legislators do not vote for those increases by July 2024, the minimum wage would be adjusted annually to reflect increases in the consumer price index.In Maryland, the minimum wage for employers with 15 or more workers will rise from $12.50 an hour to $13.25 an hour. It is scheduled to rise again, to $14 an hour, on Jan. 1, 2024.ballot measure voters passed in November
The District’s living wage, which certain D.C. government contractors and subcontractors are required to pay their workers, will also rise on Jan. 1, from $16.10 an hour to $16.50 an hour. The minimum wage, which any employer must pay its non-tipped workers, will remain at $16.10 until July 1, when it and the living wage will both rise to $17 an hour.Another new law in the District will require all health insurance plans issued on or after Jan.
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