Virginia’s minimum wage will rise on Jan. 1 from the current $12.41 an hour to $12.77, the state Department of Labor and Industry said Monday.

That’s a 2.9% increase, which is pegged to the 2.9% rise in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index last year. Government-politics

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DAVE RESS Richmond Times-Dispatch

The 2020 legislation setting Virginia’s minimum wage rates above the federal $7.50 an hour — the rate Washington set in 2009 — says increases in the minimum wage should match the index, the measure of inflation.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed a bill, House Bill 1928, that would have increased the state minimum wage to $13.50 by Jan. 1, 2026, and $15 by Jan 1, 2027.

The 2020 law gave Virginians a sligh

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