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The Wage Commission has recommended that the minimum wage be increased by 73 cents per hour effective September 1 in a report ...
In several states, a renter has to make $20 or more an hour to afford apartments being leased at Fair Market Value. Nearly ...
The Department of Labor and Employment reminded employers that Friday, July 18, marks the start of the implementation of the ...
The minimum wage is falling further and further behind the rising cost of living. The federal minimum wage peaked in buying ...
A new report reveals the hourly wage a full-time worker must earn to afford a modest apartment in each U.S. state, and the ...
Discover how prevailing wage rates affect H-2A farm labor, why sudden changes create challenges for U.S. growers, and what ...
To ensure that workers can live on the minimum wage, policies cannot simply rely on annual increases of a few percent.
The average minimum-wage worker in the United States must work 116 hours per week—nearly three full-time jobs—to afford a ...
It's a nearly 30-percent increase from the current $15.50 an hour.
Among workers who have endured decades of the unions’ suppression of class struggle and an intensifying austerity offensive ...
Unions warn that the P50 minimum wage hike in Metro Manila may cause wage distortions among higher-paid workers. Here’s how labor groups plan to respond.
Unemployment has surged to a four-year high of 4.7 per cent as Labour's 'triple whammy' of minimum wage hikes, tax rises and ...