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The strike caused issues with delivery schedules and losses were estimated at nearly $1 billion per month. ... the company to announce layoffs of 17,000 employees. ... increase in the minimum wage ...
Michigan's minimum wage is slated to be $10.56, up 23 cents, due to legislation.Minnesota's minimum is making an inflation-adjusted move to $11.13, up 28 cents.Missouri is taking its base hourly ...
A 2018 University of Washington study which investigated the effects of Seattle's minimum wage increases (from $9.50 to $11 in 2015 and then to $13 in 2016) found that while the second wage increase caused hourly wages to grow by 3%, it also caused employers to cut employee hours by 6%, yielding an average decrease of $74 earned per month per ...
Firms announced 72,821 layoffs last month, down 4% from the 75,891 announced in August, which had been the highest since March, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas said.
Because the Republican Party has opposed raising wages, the federal real minimum wage is over 33 per cent lower today than in 1968, among the lowest in the industrialized world. People have campaigned for a $15 an hour minimum wage, because the real minimum wage has fallen by 43% compared to 1968. [112]
The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
Workers across 21 states welcomed the new year by seeing their hourly minimum wages rise.. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, a rate that has remained unchanged since July 2009. During his ...
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of planned closings and mass layoffs of employees. [1]