Members of the Wolf Administration were in Pittsburgh Thursday to renew the governor's call for an increase in the state's minimum wage.
The administration is calling it abysmal and a legal exploitation of workers. Minimum wage, currently set at $7.25 an hour in Pennsylvania.
Shelby Ciarrallo, the Events Manager at Bar Marco, says paying higher rates has kept employees and, in return, customers, happy.
“They give extremely great services to all of our guests because they want to. They feel like we care enough about them, and about their security and sustainability to give them what they need to live a normal life, they also want to pay us back. They don’t feel that there is this grudge.”
Governor Wolf's plan proposes raising Pennsylvania's minimum wage to $12 per hour by July 1st.
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