In this California wage and hour Law Firm Publication, Jackson Lewis P.C. addresses the Los Angeles City Council's recent ratification of a proposal raising the city's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2020. Los Angeles joins other cities such as Seattle and San Francisco in drastically increasing the minimum wage. Jackson Lewis also discusses the appropriateness of state and municipal legislation in this area and uses the complicated history of a New York City prevailing wage ordinance for the building services sector as an example of the unpredictable legislative path of such a law as well as the effects that its passage could have on the businesses bound by it.