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Does Polk County Have the Legal Right to Iowa Impose a Higher Minimum Wage?

By Patrick Smith on August 5, 2016
Posted in Human Resources Compliance, Labor, Wage and Hour

The minimum wage has been in the news a lot lately.   Here in central Iowa, the Polk County Board of Supervisors appointed a task force to study whether to raise the minimum wage in the County over and above the federal and state law minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.   Now the task force…

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