California minimum wage rising to $9 an hour

Published June 30, 2014 9:29pm ET



SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s minimum wage will rise to $9 an hour when a new law takes effect on Tuesday and provides workers with the first such increase since 2008.

That amount will increase again to $10 an hour starting on Jan. 1, 2016, under AB10, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law last fall.

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