The minimum wage increases next week

The new year brings the first increase in the minimum wage in Ohio in a decade. The minimum increases from $5.15/hour to $6.85/hour. The effects of the minimum wage on employment is controversial and subtle. The increase changes relative wages and this relative change is a concern to David Tramontana, chief executive of Black Stone Health Care, a home health care provider:

"Would you be trekking around Ohio in December, spending five hours a week in your car, battling the elements to go to senior citizens' homes to cook their meals, give them baths, when for the same pay, you could work in a restaurant
without those challenges?"

In Arizona some people worry about the effect of their minimum wage hike on workers in disabled job centers. Randy Gray worries

“I have been working around the clock with high-paying labor attorneys who are saying that unequivocally, the net effect of this is we have to cease and desist all center-based workshop operations effective Jan.
1.”

The devil is often in the details.