Wage growth always rises with Democratic presidents, high union participation, strong market regulation, and worker ...

Experts say that ambiguity in the laws governing janitors and porters in New York City allows exploitation to continue ...

The bill also outlines that the labor commissioner must adjust the minimum wage yearly based on cost-of-living increases ...

One year after California introduced a first-of-its-kind $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers, an increase of up to 70 ...

Because the bill that created the wage law specified that it applies only to chains with at least 60 locations nationwide, ...

Despite many minimum-wage workers living in apartments with below-average rents, they’re still spending more than 30% of ...

Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• Over the past decade or so, dozens of state and municipal governments across America have ...

A bipartisan measure that would phase out a program that allows employers to pay people with disabilities below the minimum ...

The DWP has set out its stance regarding the state pension after a question about a growing discrepancy in payments.

More than six years ago, committees gathered enough petition signatures to put minimum wage and sick leave proposals on the ballot in November 2018. However, Republican lawmakers adopted the measures ...

This means the minimum wage and sick time laws, as originally adopted ... would have phased in an increased minimum wage over four years. In late 2022, the state treasurer would have begun ...

And I’ve watched over the last ... estimated at the time that such a pay hike could affect 8,000 hotel workers whose hourly pay ranges from the current minimum wage to $28.