PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
DALLAS, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest issue of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Southwest Economy features articles on minimum wage increases in Texas, the Texas economy and measuring inflation. Find the July/August issue at: While rising minimum wages in Texas will increase the incomes of some low- wage workers, the hikes may boost employment...
California Progress Report (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
By Frank D. Russo Governor Schwarzenegger’s dispute with California’s elected State Controller John Chiang over which one of them has the authority to issue checks to state employees and whether the Governor’s Executive Order that they be paid at the federal minimum wage is legally proper is scheduled to be heard by a Sacramento Superior Court judge on September 12. Chiang contends...
Political Calculations (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
When it comes to the employment prospects for U.S. teenagers in the current economy, the effect of increasing the federal minimum wage is rather like throwing a switch. All it would seem to take for the government to throw hundreds of thousands of those Age 16 to 19 out of work is a 70 cent per hour increase in the legislated minimum pay rate! We've previously looked at...
beancounters (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Hello, blogfolk. I have an announcement to make. In light of the fact that Arnold is still trying to reduce my income to the federal minimum wage, I'm afraid I will have to start charging you to read this blog....
HR Web Cafe (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... benefit. Many workers' advocates believe paid sick time should be an employment standard, like the federal minimum wage. State legislatures began considering the legislation when a federal proposal failed. According to the Department of Labor, about 39% of service workers have such a benefit, in contrast with about 80% of management workers. HR Lori recently write about...
The Moment (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
... State delegates. Isn’t it great to know that we can finally show our support for raising the federal minimum wage and a groomed brow at the same time?
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Bryan Lewis, a computer operator at the state controller's office, examines freshly printed August paychecks Friday for state employees at their standard salaries, not the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour, as ordered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pending an accord on the long-delayed state budget. The governor has sued Controller John Chiang to compel the pay reductions;...
California Progress Report (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... up to Governor Schwarzenegger on the Governor’s Executive Order that he pay state workers the federal minimum wage—an issue that is going to court. California Controller John Chiang spoke to the Alameda County Democratic Lawyer’s Club yesterday at a small restaurant in Oakland and had a lot to say about the state employee pay order. But he had a lot more to say, about his approach...
