San Jose Minimum Wage Ordinance
San Jose
The city of San José (the city) enacted a minimum wage ordinance (the MWO) that requires you to pay any employee who works at least two hours in one calendar week within the geographic boundaries of the city at the local minimum wage rate (the San José minimum wage).
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The MWO applies to your business if it is subject to San José’s business license requirements or if you maintain a business facility in San José. If you are “engaged in or caused to be engaged in within San José including any commercial or industrial enterprise, trade, profession, occupation, vocation, calling or livelihood,” you will be required to obtain a
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