By Staff 11/14/2019 Prince Edward Island is increasing the province’s minimum wage from $12.25 to $12.85 per hour starting July 2020, continuing the yearly trend that started in 2000. The new $0.60 per hour rate increase came a year after P.E.I. marked a $.70-per-hour rate increase in 2019, which saw a $12.25-per-hour minimum rate compared […]
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September 16, 2019 The day began with a crowd of about 1,000 people, including high school students marching from 24th Street to the steps of San Francisco City Hall, demanding the closure of detention caps along the US-Mexico border. “This is atrocious and horrible what they’re doing to separate families,” said marcher Carolina Dutton. On
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By: Donald Hirsch November 14, 2019 The din of political parties outbidding each other on promises to spend more on the NHS, education, transport infrastructure and housing has echoes of pre-austerity and even pre-Thatcher times. In a less familiar but no less noisy competition, both main parties are trying to persuade voters that they are
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San Francisco Living Wage coalition banner is seen in the September 16 March to save the children and close the detention camps.TV News Archive Quote https://t.co/m7MelnPtQL via @internetarchive — SF Living Wage (@SFLivingWage) November 15, 2019
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By A.D. QUIG Her plan would boost their pay—but not to the full $15 that some employee advocates were hoping for. Mayor Lori Lightfoot has introduced her proposal to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 by 2021 and boost base wages for tipped workers—but not to the full $15 that some employee advocates were
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