A Flagstaff group has the green light to ask city voters to approve a minimum wage higher than the state’s $8.05 per hour.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich agreed yesterday not to try to block efforts to establish a city minimum.
Attorney Mik Jordahl said while a 2013 law bans cities and towns, from wage regulation, a voter-approved law from 2006, allows them to set their own minimums, as long as they are at least equal to the state minimum wage.
“Local economic conditions may dictate that local governments need to raise the minimum wages to levels that are higher than the state-mandated minimum,” Jordahl said.
A spokesman for Brnovich said he recognizes the voter initiative cannot be altered by the Legislature with consent of the voters.