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South Africa: Thousands take to the streets to protest R20 minimum wage
24/04/2018 Comments Off on South Africa: Thousands take to the streets to protest R20 minimum wageLabourStart headline – Source: Mail Guardian
Continue reading …South Africa: SAFTU calls general strike on 25 April against poverty minimum wage and attacks on workers’ rights
23/04/2018 Comments Off on South Africa: SAFTU calls general strike on 25 April against poverty minimum wage and attacks on workers’ rightsLabourStart headline – Source: SAFTU
Continue reading …Can Employers Pay Tipped Workers Less Than Minimum Wage?
22/04/2018 Comments Off on Can Employers Pay Tipped Workers Less Than Minimum Wage?
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) allows employers to pay workers who customarily receive tips less than the standard minimum wage as long as certain conditions are met—but the rule’s applicability has been diminished by state laws that set higher minimum wages or ban subminimum wages altogether.
Continue reading …Know the Law Before Paying Students Less Than Minimum Wage
18/04/2018 Comments Off on Know the Law Before Paying Students Less Than Minimum Wage
The Fair Labor Standards Act sets the nationwide minimum wage for most employees, but some workers, such as student learners, can be paid less if certain conditions are met. Employment attorneys say, however, that the student-learner exception is limited.
Continue reading …Lawmakers Work to End Subminimum Wages for Workers with Disabilities
08/04/2018 Comments Off on Lawmakers Work to End Subminimum Wages for Workers with Disabilities
Though federal law permits employers to pay workers with disabilities less than the $7.25 minimum wage, there have been recent efforts at both the federal and state levels to eliminate such practices.
Continue reading …Auto Body Technicians Fail to Prove Minimum Wage Violations
01/02/2018 Comments Off on Auto Body Technicians Fail to Prove Minimum Wage ViolationsTwo body shop employees who claimed they were not paid the minimum wage required by California law failed to prove their case, the California Court of Appeal ruled.
Continue reading …USA: Walmart hikes minimum wage, announces layoffs on same day
11/01/2018 Comments Off on USA: Walmart hikes minimum wage, announces layoffs on same dayLabourStart headline – Source: Reuters
Continue reading …Walmart hikes minimum wage, announces layoffs on same day
11/01/2018 Comments Off on Walmart hikes minimum wage, announces layoffs on same dayNEW YORK (Reuters) – Walmart will raise entry-level wages for U.S. hourly employees to $11 an hour in February as it benefits from last month’s major overhaul of the U.S. tax code and competes for low wage workers in a tight labor market.
Continue reading …Florida Statute Preempts Miami Beach Minimum Wage Ordinance, Court Finds
03/01/2018 Comments Off on Florida Statute Preempts Miami Beach Minimum Wage Ordinance, Court FindsA Florida district court of appeal held that Miami Beach violated Florida law by enacting a local ordinance increasing the minimum wage.
Continue reading …Florida Statute Preempts Miami Beach Minimum Wage Ordinance, Court Finds
03/01/2018 Comments Off on Florida Statute Preempts Miami Beach Minimum Wage Ordinance, Court FindsA Florida district court of appeal held that Miami Beach violated Florida law by enacting a local ordinance increasing the minimum wage.
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- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill