November 16, 2019 by wcednews HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Discussions toward raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage for the first time since 2009 are heating up. The move is also an effort to get Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf to abandon an extension of overtime pay eligibility to thousands of workers. Leaders of the Senate’s Republican majority said

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

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

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

BY JOHN BOWDEN Author and 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson on Wednesday released a plan aimed at reducing poverty. In a press release, Williamson’s campaign outlined the plan, which calls for the U.S. to adopt a nationwide $15 minimum wage and endorses a universal basic income (UBI) of $1,000 per month. The plan is funded

By DH Web Desk NOV 06 2019 The national minimum floor wage in the country could go up by 28% if the draft rules to operationalise the Code on Wages 2019 is implemented, according to a report by Hindustan Times. The Code on Wages, 2019, provides for a statutory national floor wage rate, below which