Tag: Flagstaff Minimum Wage Ordinance

Superior Court stops State from assessing costs and withholding state-shared revenues

Earlier Oct. 11 – and after a hearing held on October 4 – Judge James Smith of the Maricopa County Superior Court entered a preliminary injunction (attached) precluding the State of Arizona from collecting a $1.1 million “assessment” that the Arizona Legislature said should be collected from the City of Flagstaff. 

That “assessment” arises out of legislation passed several years ago (HB 2756) in direct response to Proposition 414, under which the City’s voters recognized the needs of the community and adopted a minimum wage higher than that of the State at large. In July of this year, the City filed a lawsuit against the State challenging the constitutionality of a recently passed law that, for the first time, authorized an “assessment” against the City in connection with its minimum wage.

Flagstaff Minimum Wage Ordinance update

FLAGSTAFF — Starting Jan. 1, 2019, the hourly minimum wage in the city of Flagstaff will increase to $12 per hour. This increase is in accordance with Proposition 414 which was passed by voters in the Nov. 2016 election and amended…