Measure on the ballot in the 2024 Alaska General Election in Alaska.
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Get StartedIncrease Alaska's minimum wage, provide workers with paid sick leave, and protect workers from practices that violate their constitutional rights.
A "yes" vote supports increasing Alaska's minimum wage, providing workers with paid sick leave, and protecting workers from practices that violate their constitutional rights.
A "no" vote opposes increasing Alaska's minimum wage, providing workers with paid sick leave, and protecting workers from practices that violate their constitutional rights.
"Since 2014, the paradigm has shifted. The minimum wage is not supposed to be a starvation wage, It's supposed to be, hopefully, close to a living wage. … Over 32,000 Alaskan workers and households with 22,000 children will get a raise by 2027, when this goes to $15 an hour." - Joelle Hall, Alaska AFL-CIO President, in support of Initiative 1 (Learn more)
"Right now, thousands of Alaskans don't get paid sick days, so they are forced to choose between going in to work when they're sick or missing a day's pay. Letting people take time off when they're sick keeps us all safe because it stops workers from spreading illnesses. Parents should not have to worry about sending a sick child to school, and caretakers should not have to choose between looking after their loved ones in need or getting a paycheck." - Better Jobs for Alaska, in support of Initiative 1 (Learn more)
"To require them to start offering it [paid sick leave], it would certainly increase their labor costs and their liabilities, and so in order to offset that cost, again, we could see prices start to increase for the services and the goods that that particular organization offers." - Jenna Wright, Anchorage Economic Development Corporation President, in opposition to Initiative 1 (Learn more)
"There are entry-level jobs available today in Alaska that pay far more than what this proposed minimum wage initiative accomplishes. While I have only given a couple of examples from the Kenai Peninsula, it looks like job demand has created a need for employers to pay higher than the current minimum wage to attract employees. That is how the capitalist system is supposed to work." - Greg Sarber, Senior Contributor at Must Read Alaska, in opposition to Initiative 1 (Learn more)
An Act increasing the Alaska minimum wage to $13.00 per hour effective July 1, 2025, to $14.00 per hour effective July 1, 2026, to $15.00 per hour July 1, 2027 and to thereafter be adjusted annually for inflation; providing employees the ability to accrue up to 56 hours of paid sick leave per year if their employers have 15 employees or more; providing employees the ability to accrue up to 40 hours of paid sick leave if their employers have under 15 employees; and to prohibit employers from compelling employees to attend meetings regarding religious or political matters that are unrelated to their work.
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