{"id":262071,"date":"2017-10-11T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=262071"},"modified":"2017-10-11T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T20:00:07","slug":"usdol-raises-contractor-minimum-wage-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/usdol-raises-contractor-minimum-wage-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"USDOL raises contractor minimum wage in Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 15, 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Wage and Hour Division published a Federal Register notice announcing the increased hourly minimum wage rate for workers performing on or in connection with federal contracts covered by Executive Order 13658, Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors. <\/p>\n<p>Beginning Jan. 1, 2018, the minimum wage rate for covered workers will increase from $10.20 to $10.35 per hour. <\/p>\n<p>The E.O., which was signed on Feb. 12, 2014, permits the Labor secretary to adjust minimum hourly rate each year. <\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 1, 2015, contractors were required to pay covered workers at least $10.10, and the minimum wage has increased annually by an amount determined by the Labor secretary. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 15, 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Wage and Hour Division published a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[18630,4688,51,8220],"class_list":["post-262071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-beginning-jan","tag-federal-register","tag-guam","tag-usdol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}