Dylan Orr: The mayor’s pick to make sure Seattleites get the wages and benefits they’re owed.
It’s been more than two months since Seattle’s minimum wage bumped up to $11 an hour, the first step in a staggered series of increases that will have every employee in the city making at least $15 by 2021. And on June 22—which will be nearly three months since the city’s minimum wage started rising—the new city department that’s supposed to make sure workers actually get paid these new higher wages will finally get a leader: Dylan Orr, a 35-year-old former policy adviser in the US Labor Department’s Office of Disability Employment Policy…
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