Closing the Wage Gap

Read more about efforts to reverse income inequality.

Iranian Employers Threaten Large Layoffs Over Minimum Wage Increase

Sunday, 03/19/2023 A 15-hour session of the Supreme Labor Council, the body responsible for determining the minimum wage, ended without reaching a final agreement Saturday, leaving millions of workers in doubt of their future. The government has already decided to give its employees both in the administrative bureaucracy and its business enterprises a mere 20-percent raise when

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Day 2 of LAUSD strike dawns amid more protests, more rancor, more rain

By Clara Harter | charter@scng.com, Delilah Brumer and Christina Merino | cmerino@scng.com | March 22, 2023 Day 2 of a mammoth strike that shut down classes at Los Angeles Unified School District schools dawned on Wednesday, March 22, with protesters in rainy day garb as they rallied amid showers at 4:30 a.m. at a school

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Liquor bosses ordered to pay $250K for breaching minimum wage and holiday laws

3 Feb, 2023, By Katie Harris Former liquor store workers have been awarded $259,685 after their bosses failed to meet minimum pay and holiday rules. The Employment Court ruling involves five workers and several liquor stores, including Point Chev Merchants Liquor, The Bottle-O Manly, The Bottle-O Point Chevalier and The Bottle-O Taihape and their director and

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