More Executive Orders: Biden Raises Minimum Wage To $15 For Federal Contractors, Including Tipped Workers

President Joe Biden issued a new executive order Tuesday to raise the minimum wage to $15 for federal contractors and expanded a previous Obama-era executive order to apply the minimum wage to tipped employees working on federal contracts.

In a fact sheet about the order, the White House said: “These workers are critical to the functioning of the federal government: from cleaning professionals and maintenance workers who ensure federal employees have safe and clean places to work, to nursing assistants who care for the nation’s veterans, to cafeteria and other food service workers who ensure military members have healthy and nutritious food to eat, to laborers who build and repair federal infrastructure.”