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Ohio Attorney General Issues Opinion on Municipal Minimum Wage Ordinance

Attorney General Mike DeWine issued an opinion on whether an employer may be required by a municipal ordinance to pay its employees an hourly minimum wage rate that is in excess of the statewide hourly minimum wage set by the General Assembly. The attorney general concluded that “…it is my opinion, and you are hereby advised that Article XVIII, § 3 of the Ohio Constitution does not grant a city authority to adopt an ordinance that sets the minimum wage paid by employers within the city’s boundaries at a rate that exceeds and conflicts with the statewide hourly minimum wage rate enacted by the General Assembly in R.C. 4111.02 pursuant to its authority under Article II, §§ 34 and 34a of the Ohio Constitution.”

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