A compromise package to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage for the first time since 2009 is advancing in the Legislature, up against a deadline for Governor Tom Wolf to relent on his effort to extend overtime pay eligibility to thousands of workers. A Senate committee on Monday passed a measure to raise the minimum wage in four steps to $9.50 in 2022. Its prospects in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives are unclear. The bill is more modest than what Wolf proposed in January.
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