LONDON (AP) – Millions of low-pay workers in Britain will get an inflation-busting pay increase next year after the government said Monday it will legislate to raise the National Living Wage to £9.50 ($13) an hour from the current rate of £8.91 ($12.25).
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed billionaire Jeff Bezos for paying his employees at Amazon what she called “starvation wages.”
Employees at Disneyland are reportedly struggling to put food on their tables and keep a roof over their heads, painting a different picture of the site billed as “the happiest place on earth.”
Despite the minimum wage for farmworkers jumping from $8 to $10 since June 2014, Sacramento Democrats are going all-in to capture additional overtime pay for farmworkers during the countdown to the 2016 election.
The Guardian has admitted the so-called “living wage” is causing employers to cut perks, hours and even pay to some employees: From fish factories in Grimsby to coffee shops in central London and even Waitrose supermarkets, workers across the country
With 42 percent of U.S. workers making less than $15 an hour, the union-led “living wage initiative” that just qualified for the California ballot in November is generating opposition from business — and Governor Jerry Brown.
The City of Santa Monica’s City Council voted on Tuesday night to approve a minimum wage ordinance that, if approved when it is presented for a second time in two weeks, would raise minimum wage for most businesses to $15 an hour by the year 2020.
Britain’s jobs market is at its least optimistic for three years due to “shockwaves” caused by Chancellor George Osborne’s national living wage, a new report has said. Employment firm Manpower surveyed 2,100 employers, finding that many were scaling back plans
Rogue businesses that fail to pay staff the new national living wage will face fines of up to £20,000, David Cameron has warned. In a crackdown on non-compliance, the prime minister has vowed to ensure employers “pay the price” if they
Yesterday it was supermarket chain ASDA. Today it is the health care sector. Barely months after the Tories announced the introduction of a national living wage, another casualty of what looks certain to be a dramatic rise in labour costs has
Small businesses are already struggling to survive the spate of minimum wage increases to $15 per hour in parts of California.
Free market think tanks have denounced “left wing” Tory plans to hike the minimum wage to £9 an hour as “intellectually bankrupt.” They accused the government of knowingly sacrificing jobs and “putting politics ahead of good policy.” By the government’s own prediction
The Irvine City Council voted 4 to 1 to begin dumping an eight-year-old “Living Wage” ordinance on Wednesday night that forces most of the city’s thousands of contractors to pay all employees at least $13.34 an hour.
