The Quest for a Living Wage: The History of the Federal Minimum Wage Program (Contributions in Labor Studies)
Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | yesterday
From The Daily Express : ... We are also deeply sceptical of the new religion of man-made global warming. It’s the focus group favourite. It is also the most catastrophic misuse of dubiously collated statistics yet unleashed upon the world. That climate changes is not in doubt. That we must conserve, protect and care for our environment is a must. But to pillage the public purse and come over...
Lisa Law View (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The state minimum wage is always increased according to the economy inflation. Colorado will reduce the state minimum wage from $7.28 per hour to $7.24 per hour effective on January 1, 2010. However, according to the Fair Labor Standards Act, most Colorado employers will be required to pay &7.25 per hour under the federal minimum wage. While the state of Ohio will remain its state minimum wage...
the 13th juror (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Low-wage workers are routinely denied proper overtime pay and are often paid less than the minimum wage, according to a survey of workers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The study, the most comprehensive examination of wage-law violations in a decade, also found that 68% of the workers interviewed had experienced at least one pay-related violation in the previous work week. In surveying 4,387...
Lisa Law View (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
The state minimum wage is always increased according to the economy inflation, while this situation will change. There comes out news that, for the first time, a state minimum wage will be reduced. That’s the state of Colorado. Colorado will reduce the state minimum wage by 4 cents, from $7.28 per hour to $7.24 per hour. This will be effective on January 1, 2010. However, according to the Fair...
Division of Labour (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
A few weeks ago, a friend posted a link to a story about how the NAACP is pressuring President Obama about African-American unemployment. Sadly and tragically, "repeal the minimum wage" is not one of their proposals even though the evidence suggests that it reduces employment and increases poverty. Here's an excellent post by Steve Horwitz on how "the science president" is ignoring...
City Room (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
A law that increases penalties for companies that retaliate against employees who complaint about labor-law violations takes effect this week, at a time when the state has stepped up enforcement of minimum-wage standards and other labor standards.
MichiganLiberal (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
I think we have to recognize a couple of things here. I think first of all we have to recognize that the majority caucus in the state Senate has essentially resigned itself to being an impediment to substantively and positively reforming and restructuring government -- not just how services are delivered, but how they are paid for (restructuring revenue before services would, you know, tend to make...
Caribbeans Science and Art. (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
A small poor country like Jamaica paid a hundred times the weight of the global economic crisis when confronted with a banking system based in rich countries unequal trade and political discrimination against the weak economy of developing countries.The global economic crisis created by rich countries is passing the bill for the weaker economy and isolated, without political credit, and where a product...
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Many favorite Park Slope restaurants are on the list released by the State Department of Labor Department yesterday. 25 Brooklyn restaurants owe at least $910,000 in unpaid wages to more than 200 workers. In Park Slope, state inspectors found that workers make as little as $2.75 an hour way below state minimum wage of $7.25. They found that delivery workers earn $210 to $275 a week for 60 to 70 hours...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Caleb Long Last month the City Planning Commission approved a controversial plan to turn the Kingsbridge Armory, a massive red-brick castle in the Bronx, into a mall that will include a large department store, shops and a movie theater. But critics of the $310 million project insist the developer should not get the green light unless future mall employees are guaranteed a living wage. Opposition was...
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
People are already swinging at each other (and at me) over my article in this week's Stranger , Swinging at the Speaker , which reports on progressive discontent with Representative Frank Chopp in his home district, Seattle's 43rd—and relays threats from labor to back a lefty Chopp challenger in 2010. Says commenter wellstonewasright: "Progressive discontent" against the speaker who...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
SPRINGFIELD -- In a protest outside the University of Illinois board meeting this morning, graduate student instructors from the Urbana-Champaign campus threatened to strike Monday if they do not reach a contract with the administration. The next negotiating session between the Graduate Employees' Organization and the administration is set for Saturday afternoon. The union's previous contract expired...
wei12 | 11/12/2009
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wei12 | 11/12/2009
Youth is the quality that we normally associate with the Kennedys, yet it was Ted Kennedy's longevity that made him such an irrepressible force on Capitol Hill. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Near universal is the view that he was <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /> Washington
Lisa Law View (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The U.S. Department of Labor is targeting employers who violate wage and hour laws in spite of a recent ruling in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Recently, the federal Department of Labor has filed several class action suits against employers who require or permit employees to work “off the clock”. Permitting employees to work while on unpaid meal breaks or permitting employees to...
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wei12 | 11/12/2009
Youth is the quality that we normally associate with the Kennedys, yet it was Ted Kennedy's longevity that made him such an irrepressible force on Capitol Hill. Near universal is the view that he was Washington 's most influential lawmaker of...
wei12 | 11/12/2009
Youth is the quality that we normally associate with the Kennedys, yet it was Ted Kennedy's longevity that made him such an irrepressible force on Capitol Hill. Near universal is the view that he was Washington 's most influential lawmaker of...
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