By: Will Schmitt | The Press Democrat | will.schmitt@pressdemocrat.com Santa Rosa is poised to speed up increases to the local minimum wage, joining a statewide push to bolster pay for low- income workers that’s prompted some small businesses to ask for the city’s help to offset higher payroll costs. An ordinance set to go before […]
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By Barrett J. Brunsman – Staff reporter, Cincinnati Business Courier UC Health disclosed today that the hospital system will raise the minimum wage for all employees to $14 an hour in January, which will boost pay for about 15% of its workforce. About 1,700 of UC Health’s 11,000 non-provider employees will receive a pay increase, which
By: Andrew Kenney | akenney@denverpost.com | The Denver Post Denver is joining a national trend in considering raising its local minimum wage — the first city in Colorado to do so. A proposal to be announced Thursday would raise minimum pay for workers in Denver to $15 an hour by 2021, according to Hancock administration
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California passed a bill that will help some gig workers, but not all of them want to be classified as employees. Drivers are at the heart of the ride-share business. They’re also at the heart of the debate over a bill approved by California’s legislature, A.B. 5, which aims to solidify gig workers’ legal status
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (CN) — Backed by workers seeking a $15 an hour minimum wage, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday took on political corruption, forgiveness of student debt, increased teacher pay, inaction on climate change and America’s vast income inequality in an address at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. An enthusiastic, standing-room-only crowd of
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