Harris County Commissioners have raised minimum wage to $15 dollars an hour for county contract workers, to match the pay of county employees.
Salaries are growing for certain area workers.SUGGESTED: Friendswood mom arrested in toilet paper, vandalism spree with minorsCommissioner Rodney Ellis proposed passing policy for the pay hike for "fair pay" and "shared prosperity", saying some custodians who clean county buildings are paid "as little as $10 an hour".Commissioner Ellis also cited a recent Kinder Institute study saying with soaring costs, and low salaries more area residents are barely getting by.
FOX 26 Houston is now on the FOX LOCAL app available through Apple TV, Amazon FireTV, Roku, Google Android TV, and Vizio!"We need to make sure every worker in the city of Houston is able to live with the dignity and respect that they deserve, that includes janitorial workers. That could include security officers and many other workers who frankly have been left behind in the past will now also have an opportunity to have a minimum livable wage," adds SEIU Texas President Elsa Flores.
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