On January 17, New Jersey lawmakers agreed to hike minimum wage incrementally to $15 per hour by 2024. New Jersey’s minimum wage is currently $8.85 per hour, well above the federally required rate of $7.25…
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Amazon’s $15 Minimum Wage: What’s behind it? PART II
Amazon fulfillment center On November 1, 2018, the retail giant Amazon voluntarily raised its minimum wage for US employees to $15 per hour. No one made them do it. What prompted the raise? Last week,…
Amazon Raises Minimum Wage
On November 1, 2018, the retail giant Amazon voluntarily raised its minimum wage for US employees to $15 per hour. The wage increase applies to full time, part-time, seasonal, and temporary workers, including Whole Foods…
Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party on the Minimum wage.
July 28th, 2016 Like Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton’s position on the federal minimum wage has evolved since first declaring her run for the presidency in April 2015. As of this writing,…
Minimum Wage: The evolving stance of Donald Trump
During the past year of the Republican primaries and now with the shift to the general election, Donald Trump’s stance on the issue of minimum wage has evolved from believing that the current minimum wage…
SUMMER 2016 MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES
Although most minimum wage changes for individual states and smaller municipalities (cities, townships, etc) are designated to change on January 1st, there are a few changes that go into effect later in the year. Here…
Governor Cuomo and republican lawmakers’ compromise on new Minimum Wage law for New York
April 3, 2016 The New York State legislature announced on Friday, April 1st, that they passed legislation to increase the Minimum wage in the state to 15 dollars an hour, from its current level…
California to increase its Minimum Wage
Sacramento, California (April 3, 2016) Governor Jerry Brown of California and state labor leaders announced legislation to increase the states minimum wage from its current rate of $10 per hour to $15 per hour by…
Millions of workers to receive a boost in the Minimum Wage
(April 3rd, 2016) In a major victory for the fight for the 15 dollar an hour minimum wage movement, two of the most populous states in the nation have moved to increase their states minimum wage….
The slow move to a living Minimum Wage: 14 states increase their Minimum Wage in 2016.
With California and Massachusetts leading the way in the march to a $15.00 per hour minimum wage, 14 states have raised their minimum wage to start the New Year. Of the 14 states, 2 states,…