By: Owen Tucker-Smith – July 15, 2022 – The Sacramento Bee California Secretary of State Shirley Weber announced last month that a measure to increase the state’s minimum wage to $18 an hour failed to qualify for the November 2022 ballot. Now, advocates of the proposal are suing her. (Read more)
By: Yesenia Amaro – July 14, 2022 – The Fresno Bee Immigrants detained at two Central Valley immigration detention facilities are suing the centers’ operator — the GEO Group — over their $1-per-day wages and retaliation. Nine detainees are named in the federal lawsuit and are suing on behalf of others who find themselves in Read More
By: Charles E. McDonald, III and Nancy S. Lester – June 21, 2022 Several state and local minimum wage rates will increase in the latter half of 2022, with most of these changes effective on July 1, 2022. Increases to minimum wage rates for nonexempt employees and tipped employees in Florida will occur later in Read More
By Katia Dmitrieva and Matthew Boyle, Published: Nov. 25, 2021 Seattle Times Business/Economy – With inflation flaring, American white-collar employees have an edge in year-end salary discussions, though it may prove tough to secure raises that outpace surging prices. The insatiable demand for labor in the pandemic recovery coupled with record quit rates and a barely changing Read More
By Summer Lin, Published: Nov. 18, 2021 San Jose, CA. (Bay Area News Group) – Kaiser employees strike along Hospital Parkway in front of a Kaiser medical center in San Jose, Ca. Tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente employees are expected to walk out in sympathy with engineers, who have been striking for about two Read More
