University System Of Maryland Sets $15 Minimum Wage

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (WJZ) — If you enactment for the University System of Maryland, you tin expect a wage bump successful the caller year. The Board of Regents conscionable approved a $15 minimum wage for each imperishable workers.

The committee made the ballot astatine its gathering astatine Bowie State University connected Friday. Chancellor Jay Perman called the determination the close happening to bash for employees and their families.

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“It’s the close happening to bash for our Maryland communities, wherever our employees walk their wealth and enactment section businesses and jobs,” Perman said. “And, without question, it’s the close happening to bash for the University System. We trust each time connected hard-working, highly skilled employees. And if we don’t wage them a competitory wage, we hazard losing them to different organizations.”

The minimum wage is scheduled to spell into effect opening the archetypal afloat wage play pursuing Jan. 1 adjacent year.

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The determination volition interaction thousands of workers crossed the state’s higher acquisition system, and that includes Maryland’s flagship University successful College Park, on with 3 HBCUs.

The rise is the archetypal measurement successful what Perman calls a multistep process, acknowledging that a ripple effect volition beryllium made for employees making much than $15 an hour. The committee volition beryllium “studying the afloat scope and scale” of wage adjustments that volition request to beryllium made.

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Here are the institutions the USM is comprised of:

• Bowie State University;
• Coppin State University;
• Frostburg State University;
• Salisbury University;
• Towson University;
• The University of Baltimore;
• the University of Maryland, Baltimore;
• the University of Maryland, Baltimore County;
• the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science;
• the University of Maryland, College Park;
• the University of Maryland Eastern Shore;
• the University of Maryland Global Campus the Universities astatine Shady Grove,
• the University System of Maryland astatine Hagerstown,
• and the University System of Maryland astatine Southern Maryland

CBS Baltimore Staff