Taxes will fall and minimum wages rise for residents in numerous states as a variety of new laws take effect Sunday that could affect people’s finances and, in some cases, their personal liberties. Some new laws could affect access to abortion. Others will ease restrictions on marijuana and concealed guns, or eliminate the need to … Read more
Foxconn, the electronics manufacturing company that assembles Apple’s iPhones, apologized Thursday for the pay dispute that triggered massive employee protests, and violent police pushback, at a factory in central China where anti-virus controls slowed production. Mounting unrest at the Zhengzhou factory has persisted for at least a month, since thousands of employees staged a walkout … Read more
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Canada’s largest private-sector union doesn’t plan to ease up on wage demands despite signs inflation is easing off peak levels, complicating the Bank of Canada’s calculus heading into its last interest-rate decision of the year. Author of the article: Bloomberg News Randy Thanthong-Knight Publishing date: Nov 21, 2022 • 1 minute … Read more
A controversial proposal to change the pay structure for servers and other workers at Washington’s bars and restaurants was approved Tuesday, four years after an identical measure was overturned by the D.C. Council. Initiative 82 eliminates the so-called tipped wages system in which restaurant owners pay certain staff members well below the $16.10 minimum hourly … Read more
Activists demonstrate in support of a $15-per-hour minimum wage and tips for restaurant workers in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 8, 2022. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images Voters in both Nebraska and the District of Columbia on Tuesday approved higher minimum wages, while the results in a similar Nevada ballot measure are still pending. … Read more
A controversial proposal to change the pay structure for servers and other workers at Washington’s bars and restaurants goes before voters Tuesday, four years after approval of an identical ballot issue that was later overturned by the D.C. Council. Initiative 82 would eliminate the so-called tipped wages system in which restaurant owners pay certain staff … Read more
Pay growth is accelerating across six leading eurozone economies including Germany and France, according to a new wage tracker based on real-time data from online job postings. The median wage cited in adverts was 5.2 per cent higher at the end of October than a year earlier — up from annual growth of 4.2 per … Read more
Biden on supporting unions, raising minimum wage and equal pay – CBS News Watch CBS News In his first presidential address to Congress, President Biden explicitly called for a $15 federal minimum wage, although it’s something Congress would need to enact. “No one working 40 hours a week should live below the poverty line,” he … Read more
Last year the 237,000 highest paid employees in America together made more money than the lowest paid 60 million workers, my analysis of the latest federal wage statistics shows. The top employees collected $659.3 billion for their work last year. The worst paid 60 million workers earned $628.3 billion, about 5% less than the fat … Read more
British workers are on course to suffer two decades of lost wage growth, the head of the UK’s trade union movement will say on Tuesday, while warning the government not to attack the right to strike. Frances O’Grady, speaking in Brighton at the annual gathering of the Trades Union Congress, will accuse the Conservatives of … Read more