billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
HELENA - Montana's minimum wage will increase 35 cents - from $6.55 an hour to $6.90 an hour - on Jan. 1. The increase is the result of a state law requiring that an adjustment to the minimum wage be calculated no later than Sept. 30 of each ...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
A Mexican restaurant operator in the Kansas City area is in civil contempt of court for failing to pay back wages as ordered in 2003 and 2005.
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barely three months before the Bush administration turns over the keys to the White House, Bush and his cronies continue their unmitigated disdain for the nation's workers. Yesterday, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said America's jobless workers should forget about any extension to unemployment insurance (UI). Her advice for workers struggling with the longest long-term unemployment in decades?...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
The employees say Auto Spa Express, which has a contract with the city, pays them far less than the Los Angeles ordinance requires. Workers at an Echo Park carwash filed a complaint with the city of Los Angeles today, accusing the facility of violating the living wage ordinance.
Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
The employees say Auto Spa Express, which has a contract with the city, pays them far less than the Los Angeles ordinance requires. Workers at an Echo Park carwash filed a complaint with the city of Los Angeles today, accusing the facility of violating the living wage ordinance.
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The Viet Nam Salary Survey 2008 Report undertaken by Navigos Group from April 2007 to March 2008 and released on Wednesday shows the Hanoi wage increase is nearly three percentage points higher than in HCM City, the nation's southern economic hub.Despite the faster wage growth in Hanoi, HCM City still has higher salaries, says a report on the comprehensive salary survey in Viet Nam by...
TEAMtalk (Free subscription) | yesterday
Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp has outlined his concerns over calls for a Premier League salary cap and labelled the idea 'not realistic'.
VitaBeat (Free subscription) | yesterday
While China and the rest of the world are grappling with the melamine scare found in milk and dairy products, Canada's health battle is still against the deadly listeria. According to information obtained by Toronto Star, 66 percent of Maple Leaf meat samples secured from hospitals and nursing residence in Toronto, still had the listeria virus. The bacteria-laced frozen meat from Canada's largest cold...
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Players at Drogheda United have been told the club cannot guarantee their wages this week.
USA Partisan (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
In the fog of economic mayhem ravaging American and international economies, experts are having a hard time determining the root causes of the current financial crisis. Read ...
aarkstore.com | 12 hours ago
... more marketing and administrative efforts to move a product from the plant to the final consumer. Wages in furniture manufacturing are relatively low in comparison to most other manufacturing industries. The gap has been widening during most years during the past decade. To know more about this report, please visit : http://www.aarkstore.com/report/report.asp?ReportId=1161 or for any queries
Critical Montages (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Global Financial Crisis Has a Social Cause, Too: the World of Low Wages: An Interview with Emiliano Brancaccio by Waldemar Bolze Emiliano Brancaccio is a professor of labor economics at the University of Sannio, member of Rifondazione Comunista , and advisor to the largest union of Italian metalworkers FIOM-CGIL . You maintain that the financial crisis is not purely a technical financial...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Police-contract bargaining is always a tough slog, but rarely do the wheels turn as slowly as in the current tussle between the Toronto Police Services Board and the Toronto Police Association, now just past the one-year mark.So, in the meantime, some back pay is in the mail for the union's 5,510 uniformed members and 2,100 civilians, in the shape of a 3-per-cent interim wage increase, retroactive...
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
M'bishi Motors, Union Agree To Wage, Payroll Cuts In IllinoisNEW YORK (Nikkei)--Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (7211) and the United Auto Workers labor union have agreed on new working conditions at the automaker's Illinois plant in the U.S., including wage reductions.
i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
A holistic approach to eradicating poverty, which seeks to ensure adequate incomes, quality jobs and better access to social services, is advocated by the EP in an own-initiative report. MEPs call on the Council to agree an EU target for minimum wages to provide for remuneration of at least 60% of the relevant average wage and, further, to agree a timetable for achieving that target in...
