Minimum Wage Hike to $15? Legislation Introduced By Pa. Lawmaker

State Senator Daylin Leach introduced legislation on Thursday to raise the state minimum wage to $15 per hour, he said in a press release.

The bill would also index the minimum wage to inflation and eliminate the tipped minimum wage, the release states.

In a memo to the state Senate, Leach said:

An economy that forces full-time workers to toil in poverty is clearly in need of repair. While corporations shower their executives with extravagant bonuses, lavish benefits and golden parachutes, they force their own employees to supplement meager wages with government assistance programs, all at the taxpayers’ expense. It’s time for employers to pay their fair share and for workers to get a fair shake.

Leach is a Democrat who represents the 17th Senatorial District in Montgomery and Delaware Counties.

He held a rally on Friday at the McDonald’s on 40th & Walnut in Philadelphia, the release states.

He is also the Democratic Chairperson of the Senate Judiciary Committee.