Building Workers Will Earn Minimum Wages

University building service employees will be covered by a minimum hourly wage law for the first time in history after December 1.

Massachusetts Labor Commission John J. Delmonte last night announced a 15 cent hourly increase, and he added that employees of schools and colleges will be included in the new ruling for the first time.

The increase boosts the minimum hourly wage to 70 cents, and it effects some 20,000 persons who clean, service, and maintain buildings.

It will not, however, change the wages of University workers, who already receive well above the new minimum wage.