I doubt many 15Now "activists" will be at this meeting. 9am? Those trustafarians don't wake up until 3PM, and even then they have to get some Starbucks to get rid of the Pabst Blue Ribbon hangover before maybe bathing for the first time all week and cashing the check their rich parents send them to buy another Che t-shirt and maybe get a "smash capitalism" app for their Iphone.

Nothing says "progressive" like a bunch of rich, white, trust fund socialists snickering at immigrant small business owners who work 50 hours a week and only make about 50,000/year, most of which goes to family overseas in SOCIALIST Vietnam or China.

@1: Lots of stereotypes and strawmen there, JW.

Planned your move to Houston yet?

@1 see Ansel herz

That is the most process of any Seattle issue I've seen yet, and I mean over the last 40 years.

And of course it could have been worse, but not much worse.

"...Sally Clark is alone with all the business-friendly amendments,..."

Because she's the ONE member of the council to actually not just listen to the facts presented by small biz & the Health/Human Svcs. Non-Profits, but is not voting by ideology, craven political selfishness or agenda.

She's the only one there with integrity, as I have seen it.

Dave Meinert haz a sad:

https://www.facebook.com/david.meinert/p…

Are they going to enforce this as well as they are enforcing the sick leave law they passed? Or is this just going to be ignored by businesses as well?

This is reminding me of the city wide monorail: the establishment kills it off via process.

Regarding the requirement to post the basics of the minimum-wage law in workplaces, where would a workplace need to be located to meet this requirement? Correct me if I'm wrong here, but the mayors proposal defines a "Seattle worker" as anyone who spends more than 2 hours in the city over a 2 week period doing work. So a delivery person working for a company in Bellevue would be covered by the $15/hr wage, but would their employer need to post a sign informing them of that fact? Who would be checking on that to make sure it's posted?

@8 - I would assume that means they get $15/hr for the work they do in Seattle? In that case can they pay the minimum wage in Bellevue if they are located here and spend some hours there?

Jean Godden - with all due respect it is time for you to retire. I've watched these hearings and you are a one trick pony, the only thing you've added is this "gender equality" piece which quite honestly is nonsense.

How many small businesses that are owned by women are put out of business every year by government regulation? She doesn't seem to understand that times are a changing and have nothing to do with her adding a useless line to an already complicated legislation.

A certain sign it is time to go if that is her value add.

@10 equal pay for women is "nonsense"?? Well, you're apparently a full-on neanderthal along with the rest of your clueless ageism. It's beyond time that your attitudes should "retire" and recede into the past.

@10

Okay, how many? And that's out of how many total?

@9 - No, they'd be required to be paid the Seattle minimum wage for the entire work week, since they are a "Seattle worker". This definition of what a Seattle worker is bleeds over to what a Seattle employer is. Enforcement of the $15/hour could theoretically extend to the entire country, but from a practical stand point, I can't see the city printing up that many posters. I suspect that enforcement would stop at the city limits, and it would be up to the individual workers outside of the city to bring their own lawsuits.

@11 - didn't say equal pay was nonsense. I said that her adding that useless line in a minimum wage bill was nonsense. She has nothing more to contribute.

I'm not against equal pay. This isn't about equal pay. This is about politics and an politician whose time has passed if this is all she can add to the conversation about something this important.

Maybe you should learn to read.

Shorter Dave Meinart: I don't understand politics.