By Laura Krantz April 14, 2020 After pressure from desperately understaffed nursing homes, state officials on Tuesday said they will soon grant the facilities permission to boost some workers’ pay by 25 percent amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As the virus rips through the state, the jobs of nursing home staff have become newly hazardous. The […]
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By Karen Doradea April 1, 2020 It can be hard to make a consistent living on minimum wage earnings at the best of times. But there is some sort of improvement coming, even if it’s pretty small. The provincial government is raising the Ontario minimum wage on October 1 for the first time since January
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By Caroline Hudson March 31, 2020 Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) has raised its minimum wage to $20 per hour about a year ahead of schedule. The Charlotte-based bank announced plans in April 2019 to raise its minimum wage to the $20 threshold by 2021. BofA then hiked its minimum wage from $15 per
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By Tom Belger April 1, 2020 Almost 3 million of Britain’s lowest-paid workers are set for a pay rise, after the biggest ever hike in the legal minimum wage. The wage floor, now rebranded the ‘national living wage,’ increased on Wednesday from £8.21 to £8.72 an hour for workers aged 25 and over. Union leaders
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By Clancy DuBos February 28, 2020 State lawmakers will have lots of issues to resolve when they begin their annual session March 9. More than a third of them will be brand new to the process, thanks to term limits and a successful push by conservative forces in last year’s statewide elections to replace white
