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| The Minimum Wage Is So Low That It's Immoral - and Foolish Huffington Post But a new Data Brief from the National Employment Law Project finds that 66 percent of low-wage employees work for companies with more than 100 employees. That includes a handful of very large corporations which collectively employ nearly 8 million ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Raise minimum wage to lift America Youngstown Vindicator With the federal minimum wage stuck at $7.25 an hour since July 24, 2009, workers now have less buying power than they did in 1997 at the start of the longest period in history without a raise. It took 10 years, from 1997 until 2007, to raise the minimum wage ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Sticky Wages and the Macro Story New York Times (blog) A bit more methodology discussion. I've written quite a lot about sticky wages, aka downward nominal wage rigidity, which is one of those things that we can't derive from first principles but is a glaringly obvious feature of the real world. But I keep running into ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Still time to raise NJ minimum wage Philadelphia Inquirer Now, the Democrats want to ask voters to raise the minimum wage through a referendum that would appear on the ballot next year. That's not the best route. States that lock themselves into specific expenditures constitutionally find themselves in a pickle when ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Workers Call On Congress To Raise The Wage Patch.com The group will gather for the "Raise the Wage" Minimum Wage Walking Tour to call on Congress to support The Catching up to 1968 Act of 2012 which would raise the minimum wage to $10 per hour, a significant increase from the current $7.25. The federal ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Fisheries Agency wage hike questioned Taipei Times An academic has raised questions over the Fisheries Agency's move to increase the wages of Taiwan Provincial Fishermen's Association officers and staff, saying it may be politically motivated, with the seven-in-one local government elections, set for 2014, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Surprising Facts About Minimum Wage Earners Care2.com (blog) Opponents of increasing the nation's minimum wage always fall back on the argument that it doesn't need to be raised because it's mostly teenagers working part-time for extra pocket money who are getting that hourly figure (which right now is $7.25). See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The Imperative: National Day of Action for Low-Wage Workers Jewschool To give them the capacity for self-defense the law grants him the right to organize, and to make regulations that will assist his peers, distribute work fairly and justly, and achieve a respectful employer-employee relationship and appropriate wage, thus enabling ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Transport workers welcome higher wages China Daily The contract will ensure a minimum 15 percent wage rise for the 15000 public transport workers in Shenyang this year. It sets a minimum monthly salary of 1600 yuan for drivers, 1500 yuan for bus maintenance workers, 1450 yuan for dispatchers, and 1200 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The Wages of Willful Blindness: Is It Time for Defenders of Liberty to Abandon ... Right Side News The embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood by President Obama, aided and abetted by the Republican establishment, is not new. It is the culmination of a gradual surrender whose silhouette was already evident nearly twenty years ago. I wrote about it in Willful ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Minimum wage: Ideal versus practicability TODAYonline I refer to the letters "Minimum wage reduces reliance on foreign labour", "Wage floor cannot narrow income gap but Singapore's system might", and "Minimum wage is one of the solutions, when workers' skills are undervalued" (July 18). Though I agree that a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Extrapolation Error: Adidas Factory Closing and China's FDI Flight Business Insider Since then, we've had serious wage inflation and now another drop-off in demand. Scary stuff for manufacturers, but what does it mean, if anything, for the overall foreign investment picture in China? An editorial in the Global Times makes some unfortunate ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Comment: Apparel costing for a living wage just-style.com The vexed question of a 'living wage' continues to tax some of the major apparel retailers and brand owners. But how can a sourcing company calculate a living wage, let alone ensure its implementation? Doug Miller, Professor (Emeritus) of Worker Rights in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| American Samoa business hails wage freeze ABC Online "People should realise...that it's better to have a job and have a reasonable wage rather than have the promises of large salaries and suddenly find that you're out on the street because the companies concerned can't afford to keep you anymore." ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Getting definition of wages right Malay Mail I REFER to "Define term logically, practically" (The Malay Mail, July 19) and concur with the writer that the Minimum Wage Order 2012 (MWO 2012) is laden with ambiguities. The MWO 2012's reference to "wages" has been expressly stipulated to mean the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Employers want makeover for National Wages Council Channel News Asia SINGAPORE: Two months ago, the National Wages Council (NWC) broke from tradition when it recommended a minimum quantum of S$50 in raises for workers earning below S$1000. By doing so, it departed from its norm for nearly three decades of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Push by Floridians to Raise Fed'l. Minimum Wage Public News Service The current rate is $7.67 an hour in Florida - but if it had kept pace with inflation, the minimum wage would have topped $10 an hour. Eric Brakken, Florida director of the labor union 32-BJ SEIU, says it's time for America's politicians to pay attention, particularly ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A minimum wage from public purse Irish Times If one person he knows in the legal profession earns less than minimum wage, it must be that they are not able to convince the private sector that they are worth it. The public sector pays more than minimum wage in order to gain the adversarial advocacy skills ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bulldozing on minimum wage may raise conflict - Chitala postzambia.com Commenting on the recently-announced minimum wage by the government, Dr Chitala, who is Zambia Research Foundation (ZRF) executive director, said the coming up with the minimum wage required consultation with various stakeholders so as to ensure ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Woman sues Davis' Place for failure to pay wages West Virginia Record Kister claims during the course of her employment, the defendants did not pay her all her wages and that the defendants had a duty to pay all her wages owed to her in full within 72 hours of discharge. The defendants breached their duty and in doing so, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Minimum wage | Suburban Guerrilla By susie One Response to "Minimum wage". dandy 23 July 2012 at 8:42 am Permalink. Helps explain why we have the highest poverty rate in more than 50 years here, the richest country on the freakin globe. Suburban Guerrilla | ||
| Daily Kos: Big companies employ two in three low-wage workers By rss@dailykos.com (Laura Clawson) Republican rhetoric about small businesses aside, here's why the minimum wage remains a poverty wage: 66 percent of workers earning less than $10 an hour work for businesses with more than 100 employees (PDF). It's that lobbying ... Recent | ||
| NCCER Seeks Craft Wage Input | AGC News By elvinl AGC members are being asked to respond to a short survey on craft wages created by the National Center for Construction Education & Research (NCCER) to better align its marketing and recruitment efforts with current industry wages for ... AGC News | ||
| Higher Wage? - After 12 - Party Fails and After Hours Hijinks By Cheezburger Network Party Fails - Higher Wage? Higher Us! ... Higher Wage? x. Share. Party Fails - Higher Wage? Higher Us! Higher us! Submitted by: Unknown. Incorrect source or offensive? let's go smoke weed about itraisesworkaholics · Share on Facebook ... After 12 - Party Fails and After... | ||
| The Peter Schmid Quartet Plays Maximum Wage | Mixed Meters By David Ocker The title was inspired by this picture of a protester, possibly from the Occupy movement, holding a sign which reads "Why is there no maximum wage?". The concept of setting a limit on income for people who make too much money was ... Mixed Meters | ||
| Zambian Economist: Minimum Wage Changes are Final By Jessica Achberger Many employers have followed with interest and concern the changes to the Zambian minimum wage, first published in the Government Gazette... Zambian Economist | ||
| why I am still a feminist #10: the wage gap exists | lycanthropia By Lycanthrope GOP shill Castellanos offers a species of rebuttal here, mostly citing Kay Hymowitz and a sneery 2009 blogpost by Andrew Syrios (which in turn quotes from such luminaries as John Stossel). Of course, Maddow's piece ends nothing; the ... lycanthropia | ||
| Pope Outrages the South Again; How Stonewall Would Wage the War By Eric Pope issued another order against the people of the South, allowing his army to subsist off the land. Stonewall Jackson, however, favored a very similar (and much harsher) policy. Civil War Daily Gazette | ||
| best minimum wage job a middle aged guy ever had: Mountains out ... By Duncan McGeary A $10000 grant to pay for increased education and enforcement for sidewalk bikers? When did that become a big problem? I can't remember the last time I saw a biker on the sidewalk. Yes, I saw the picture on the front page of the Bulletin, but ... best minimum wage job a middle... | ||
| Sticky wages and transmogrification of truth « Lars P Syll's Blog By Lars P Syll I've written quite a lot about sticky wages, aka downward nominal wage rigidity, which is one of those things that we can't derive from first principles but is a glaringly obvious feature of the real world. But I keep running into comments along the ... Lars P Syll's Blog | ||
| Tiger Beatdown › National Hyatt Boycott Unites Workers, Feminists ... By s.e. smith Low-wage workers in agriculture, the hospitality industry, health care, and among household staffs tend to be immigrant women, some of whom are making less than minimum wage, many of whom are afraid to report any abuses they ... Tiger Beatdown | ||
| Singapore Daily Bulletin – 23/07/12 – SharesInv.com By Shares Investment In a survey by the Singapore Human Resources Institute and Remuneration Data Specialists (RDS), real wages are expected to shrink as companies dole out smaller bonuses of 1.6 to 2.0 months of basic pay, lower than last year's 2.2 months ... SharesInv.com | ||
| TheMoneyIllusion » Three Times/Don't solve problems/Now more ... By ssumner Now think about what the sticky wage model would predict in each case. I'd say a sharp fall in RGDP. And that's what happened in all three cases. Then what? Here's where things get interesting. The 1929-30 NGDP decline was followed by ... TheMoneyIllusion | ||
| To Celebrate $4.9 Billion Profit Caterpillar Demands a Six-year Wage By climateer Despite earning a record $4.9 billion profit last year and projecting even better results for 2012, the company is insisting on a six-year wage freeze and a pension freeze for most of the 780 production workers at its factory here. Caterpillar says ... Climateer Investing |
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| Groups call for higher minimum wage - KansasCity.com Three years after the last increase in the nation's minimum wage, worker advocacy groups have launched a concerted effort to raise it from $7.25 an hour. www.kansascity.com/.../groups-call-for-higher-minimum.html | ||
| Campaign To Raise Minimum Wage There hasn't been an increase in the federal minimum wage in three years. The last increase, to $7.25/hour, was in 2009. Some states do pay more than that, ... jobsearch.about.com/.../campaign-to-raise-the-minimum-wage... |
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