WASHINGTON – Advocates of a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage scored a temporary victory last week when the House approved the increase in its vote to advance President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill.…
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats are seeking another way to raise hourly wages for Americans after suffering a blow Thursday, when a key Senate official ruled a minimum wage hike to $15 an hour could not stay in President…
WASHINGTON – Backers of a push to raise the federal hourly minimum wage to $15 suffered a key loss Thursday after a Senate official ruled the controversial measure cannot be considered as part of…
Costco is raising its minimum wage to $16 an hour, leapfrogging competitors including Target and Amazon. Costco CEO Craig Jelinek announced the increase Thursday at a U.S. Senate Budget Committee hearing on worker wages at…
WASHINGTON – Republican Sens. Mitt Romney and Tom Cotton are proposing to raise the federal minimum wage to $10, but only if businesses are required to use the internet-based E-Verify system designed to…
WASHINGTON – Pam Garrison worked much of her life in low-paying retail jobs, earning wages so paltry that they barely covered even the most basic necessities such as food and shelter. “We don’t…
Lawyers representing the Uber drivers who brought the case say that “tens of thousands” of drivers in the U.K. could be entitled to 12,000 pounds (nearly $17,000) each in compensation. In 2016,…