25 states across the country will be raising the minimum wage in 2020. Find out which states are getting an increase.
Minimum Wage: By the Numbers $7.25 per hour is the federal minimum wage; it hasn’t gone up in 15 years. 20 states follow the federal minimum wage; they have not raised wages above $7.25. $2.13 per hour is the federal subminimum wage for tipped workers; it hasn’t changed since 1991...
France also meets the 60 percent target for the minimum to median wage ratio, as do Bulgaria, Portugal, and Slovenia. The latter country is also the sole EU member meeting the 50 percent target for the minimum wage relative to the mean wage ratio. All other countries are relatively far ...
MORE:Minimum wage fight: Here we go again The fence-straddling makes sense from a strategic perspective. The company has worked in recent years to sand the harder edges off of its anti-labor rep — a mission that has taken on some urgency as the store expands its footprint into urban ar...
In April, California introduced a new minimum wage law that requires fast food workers to be paid $20 per hour. What has happened since? Well, restaurants and businesses have responded as one would expect they would: by raising prices and announcing hiring freezes. Though beset ...
Not all workers are sold on the idea of raising the tipped wage. A little over two years ago, Steve Marandola, 50, moved from New Jersey to Bellingham, Washington, where the tipped wage is now $11 an hour. Marandola has worked in the restaurant industry for 30 years and currently works...
A generation ago, people making the minimum wage were largely teenagers. Today, as President Obama pushes to give 25 million low-wage workers a raise, that’s no…
Opponents of this idea today made the same arguments and dire predictions four years ago. They were wrong then and they’re wrong now. The $15 minimum wage bill I recently reintroduced, like the one that took effect in 2013, contains several compromises to assuage the concerns of some of ...
This chapter begins with a historical review of the federal minimum wage and data about minimum wage. The current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and hasn’t been increased in 10 years. Twenty-nine states have a minimum wage higher than the federal
MARCELINO GUEVARA, who started out in the restaurant business as a dishwasher 25 years ago, today manages an establishment in northwest Washington.He makes a point of paying his employees more than what he first earned -- minimum wage. "Otherwise these people just wouldn't make it," he say...