{"id":5869,"date":"2012-04-17T11:30:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2012-04-17T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T14:57:25","slug":"hobby-lobbys-new-minimum-wage-is-13-per-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/04\/17\/hobby-lobbys-new-minimum-wage-is-13-per-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Hobby Lobby&#8217;s New Minimum Wage is $13 Per Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5870\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4127\/4954611581_92460029f6_z.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5870\" title=\"Hobby Lobby\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/hobby-lobby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/hobby-lobby.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/hobby-lobby-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/04\/hobby-lobby-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Paul Ingles \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Hobby Lobby is raising the minimum wage of its full-time workers to $13 per hour. Part-time workers will see their pay increase to $9 per hour.<\/p><p>The increase will affect more than 15,300 employees at 500 stores in 41 states, the Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/hobby-lobby-raises-minimum-wage-to-13hour\/article\/3666871?custom_click=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+newsok%2Fbusiness+%28NewsOK.com+RSS+-+business%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\">reports<\/a>. The national minimum is $7.25 per hour.<\/p><p>Last year, the Oklahoma City-based arts and crafts giant raised its minimum full-time wage to $12 per hour.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The company says it&#8217;s the fourth year in the row that it&#8217;s offered pay increases to workers. CEO and founder David Green says Hobby Lobby workers are key to the company&#8217;s success and that they deserve to be rewarded for their work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hobby Lobby is raising the minimum wage of its full-time workers to $13 per hour. Part-time workers will see their pay increase to $9 per hour.The increase will affect more than 15,300 employees at 500 stores in 41 states, the Associated Press reports. The national minimum is $7.25 per hour.Last year, the Oklahoma City-based arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":5870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300],"tags":[357],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5873,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions\/5873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}