By: Mike Rogoway – Jun. 21, 2022, 6:50 a.m. – Oregonlive When Oregon lawmakers mandated a series of minimum wage hikes back in 2016, they reached a compromise over just how high the new wages should be. The Legislature portioned the state into three categories and set three different wage scales loosely based on the […]
By: Harri Leigh (FOX43) – 9:31 AM EDT June 13, 2022 – FOX43 HARRISBURG, Pa. — A group of Democratic lawmakers will hold a press conference in Harrisburg Monday to call for raising Pennsylvania’s minimum wage to $12 per hour, with a pathway to $15 per hour. Pennsylvania currently follows the federal minimum wage of
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By: Amanda Vinicky – June 8, 2022 8:28 am Gas prices are up. Food costs more. And for low-wage workers, wages are up too – by law. Starting July 1, the minimum wage is increasing for those who work in Chicago or the rest of Cook County anyway. By how much depends. After staying stagnant
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By: Shannon Bettis Nakabayashi and Kathleen Roney – June 8, 2022 – Jackson Lewis P.C. On January 1, 2022, California’s statewide minimum wage increased to $15.00 ($14.00 for employers with 25 employees or less). A statewide minimum of $15.00 for all businesses was scheduled to go into effect on January 1, 2023. However, as a result of
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By Robert Bruno – Chicago Tribune – Jun 06, 2022 at 5:00 am Our tax code is rooted in a simple principle: If you work hard for a living and pay what you owe, you deserve a fair shot at building wealth. As a professor of labor and employment relations, I have studied why this fundamentally
