OU Student Employees get Minimum Wage Increase


Click the play button to watch Michelle Boydstun, an assistant director of payroll and personnel records, talk about the OU student employees getting their minimum wage increase.

OU Payroll and Personnel Records sent out e-mails saying that there plans to be an increase of the minimum wages of the OU student employees.

According to www.laborlawcenter.com, the last time the minimum wage got increased was in July 24, 2008.

“I was planning on switching jobs because the pay wasn’t high enough for me, but now since the hourly pay has gone up, I don’t have to look for a new job,” said Scott Sherrill, a student employee at Bizzell Memorial Library.

The minimum wage will increase to $7.25 per hour, and this will begin to be effective from July 24, according to the United States Department of Labor Web site.