Business group that backed L.A. mayor's minimum wage plan 'not so happy' now

The L.A. Times reports:

As the Los Angeles City Council prepares for a final vote Wednesday to raise the minimum wage, leaders of the most prominent business group to back a citywide pay boost have privately expressed concerns about changes made to the proposal since Mayor Eric Garcetti first sought their support.

The Los Angeles Business Council, a Century City-based coalition of firms that has supported liberal causes such as affordable housing and clean-energy projects, endorsed Garcetti's plan to increase the minimum wage to $13.25 by 2017.

But last week, after the City Council gave tentative approval to a more far-reaching proposal that would gradually raise minimum hourly pay to $15 by 2020, the business group's president conveyed dissatisfaction with the council plan to the mayor's office.

"My leadership is not so happy," Mary Leslie, president of the business council, wrote in a May 19 email to senior mayoral aide Rick Jacobs several hours after the City Council vote.

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