West Virginia Democrats Hike Minimum Wage, Exempt Themselves From It

West Virginia Democrats Hike Minimum Wage, Exempt Themselves From It

West Virginia Democrats are taking a page out of Congress’s playbook. : They jacked up the state’s minimum wage, but included language in the legislation that exempted themselves:

Hypocrite

Last week, the Democrat controlled House in West Virginia passed legislation raising the state’s minimum wage to $8.75 an hour, $1.50 higher than the federal minimum wage. The action is part of a nation-wide effort by Democrats to make a minimum wage increase central to their platform for the midterm elections. The increase didn’t effect all workers, though. Democrats exempted many of their own staff from the wage hike. Businesses may have to pay the higher wages, but the legislature will avoid many of the consequences.

From the legislative text, the wage hike doesn’t apply to:

(18) any person employed on a per diem basis by the Senate, the House of Delegates, or the Joint Committee on Government and Finance of the Legislature of West Virginia, other employees of the Senate or House of Delegates designated by the presiding officer thereof, and additional employees of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance designated by such joint committee.

Emphasis mine.

Weasel Zippers calls it “Grade A hypocrisy.”

What do you call it?

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