Lawsuit seeks role for cities in deciding ‘livable wage’

Screen Shot 2015-04-13 at 8.04.45 AMBy 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.

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