By Howard Fischer |Capitol Media Services/Arizona Daily Star
A Flagstaff group is going to court as a first step that could permit all Arizona cities to adopt their own “living wage” laws.
The lawsuit asks a Maricopa County Superior Court judge to void a 2013 law declaring only the state can regulate employee benefits, including compensation. That statute spells out that things such as wages are “not subject to further regulation by a city, town or other political subdivision of this state.”
Attorney Mikkel Jordahl contends the law was enacted illegally.