However, after the recount, Judge Andrea Darvas of King County Superior Court ruled the Port of Seat

In May 2013, the independent group SeaTac Committee for Good Jobs filed a City of SeaTac petition to enact a minimum wage increase to $15 an hour for all transportation and hospitality employees in the city of SeaTac, Wash., discount hotel coupons including the airport.
The initiative went to ballot as Proposition 1 in November and narrowly passed, legally requiring a hand recount. With more than 6,000 votes cast, 77 votes separated the two sides. The measure went into effect on Jan. 1.
However, after the recount, Judge Andrea Darvas of King County Superior Court ruled the Port of Seattle, not the city of SeaTac, has jurisdiction over Sea-Tac Airport. discount hotel coupons Therefore, Judge Darvas ruled that the proposition only applies to around 1,600 workers in the city of SeaTac, not the 4,700 airport employees.
discount hotel coupons The proposition was drafted by local unions to include all employees in the city of SeaTac, and since the airport is the single largest employer in the area, fewer people including those working for car rental companies at the airport are affected by the measure than supporters originally hoped.
The Washington State minimum wage of $9.32 is the highest in the country, but according to Heather Weiner of the union-backed political group Yes for SeaTac, the cost of living in the Seattle-Tacoma area is one of the highest in the state.
discount hotel coupons Besides the $15 minimum wage, employees would also receive paid sick and safe time and 100% of service-given charges discount hotel coupons and tips. Weiner states, the reason voters approved the initiative is because they were seeing their friends, their family, their neighbors working full-time jobs yet still living in poverty.
The government should not be getting involved in the day-to-day operations and employee standards of a private enterprise, says Doris Cassan, licensee of Dollar Rent A Car operating at Sea-Tac Airport.
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