WBUR: New Year, New Minimum Wage: Some Mass. Businesses Welcome The Increase
By Callum Borchers
WBUR, Jan 1, 2020
Massachusetts keeps chugging toward a $15 minimum wage. Next stop: $12.75. ...
"We do it because it's the right thing to do," said Rob Everts, co-CEO of Equal Exchange in West Bridgewater. "It's also in our own, enlightened self interest. Paying a good, strong wage cultivates loyalty. Turnover here is low, and that helps us at many levels."
Everts' company employs 150 people, some of whom pick and pack the fair-trade coffee that Equal Exchange sells all over the country. It's the kind of job that often pays minimum wage...