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Palestinians set first private sector minimum wage
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — The Palestinian government on Tuesday approved a minimum wage of 1,450 shekels ($376, 290 euros) a month for the private sector, labour minister Ahmed Majdalani said. “This is an unprecedented decision… on which we can build,” Majdalani told AFP, dismissing criticism that the rate was to…
Welsh call center profits off lowly paid prisoners in call center
A business in Wales is bussing in inmates from an open prison 21 miles away and paying them just £3 a day to man its call centre, the Guardian can reveal. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed that dozens of prisoners from Prescoed prison in Monmouthshire, south Wales, had done…
Scranton, Pennsylvania: where even the mayor is on minimum wage
With shrinking tax revenues, industrial decline and a political stand-off, the town is a symbol of a nation’s crisis – some of it self-inflicted. Paul Harris reports Scranton is the setting for the hit American version of the sitcom The Office. Not many people in this beleaguered city are laughing…
Republican lawmaker tells worker wanting higher minimum wage to ‘get a job’
A worker in Florida got an earful from Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-FL) on Wednesday when he asked the congressman to support a bill that would raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour. “Jesse Jackson, Jr. is passing a bill around to increase the minimum wage to 10 bucks…
Workers’ group releases shockingly short list of ethical restaurants
A group dedicated to the rights of food service workers called Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC) has released an annual list of national restaurants and how they treat employees. A surprising number of U.S. restaurant chains fail to even meet the minimum requirements listed in the guide to be considered…
House Dems propose $10 per hour minimum wage
A group of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives proposed this week a bill that would raise the nation’s minimum wage from $7.25 to $10 per hour, which they say will help consumer purchasing power catch up to the rate of inflation since the late 1960s. It’s primary sponsor,…
Republican Senate candidate in ND can’t name minimum wage
A Republican Senate candidate in North Dakota and his staff found themselves stumped recently by a voter who wanted to know the state’s minimum wage. A video of the exchange between Rep. Nick Berg (R-ND) and a young woman was posted by the North Dakota Democratic Party on Monday. “I…
Romney: No need to raise the minimum wage
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said Monday that he was against raising the federal minimum wage, which is currently $7.25 per hour. The Republican presidential candidate had previously said that he supported automatic increases in the federal minimum wage based on inflation. “A lot of conservatives led by the Wall…
Florida bill would slash minimum wage for tipped workers
A Florida Senate committee has followed the advice of a restaurant association and passed a bill that would cut the minimum wage for tipped workers by more than half. The bill, SB 2106, would slash the current Florida tipped minimum wage of of $4.65 an hour to the federal standard…
Washington to be first state to top $9 minimum wage
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Washington will be the first state to require a minimum wage of more than $9 an hour when it joins seven other states on Sunday in automatically adjusting salaries to keep up with inflation. More than a million low-wage U.S. workers will see their hourly pay go…
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