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ThinkstockCalifornia Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that will take the state’s minimum wage to $10 from the current $8 in two stages — $9 an hour next year and $10 in 2016. The decision will...
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courtesy of AppleApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is about to be pilloried again for “ethical and legal” labor violations at the Chinese factory of one of its parts suppliers. A watchdog group called...
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ThinkstockAs retail and fast-food workers strike across 60 cities as a means to get their employers to raise wages as high as $15 an hour, most Americans support the labor union system, a fact that...
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ThinkstockIn a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the Payroll to Population (P2P) employment rate remained...
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courtesy of McDonald'sYesterday’s walkouts at fast-food restaurants in seven U.S. cities are set to continue today in some if not all locations. Workers have walked out in an effort to gain an...
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ThinkstockLess than a third of the nation’s workers were actively engaged in their jobs last year, according to a Gallup report released this week. Gallup’s State of the American Workplace showed...
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Jon OggThursday finally brought on a lot of new economic data for investors to peruse from the Labor Department and Commerce Department. This on the heels of several days in a row of almost no real...
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courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is showing employees that the company must be one of the worst technology companies to work for, period! Reports are out that IBM is...
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ThinkstockWages of many workers in the United Kingdom have collapsed recently. The causes of some these drops also exist in the United States, where real income has been stagnant for a decade. The...
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ThinkstockRemember all the talk about how sequestration was going to lead to endless numbers of firings and endless cuts in government services? Surprise! It did not really happen anywhere as much as...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has released its unemployment and payrolls reading for the month of May. The data looks mixed on the surface. The bad news is that the...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has submitted its Household Net Worth report for the first quarter of 2013 and there is good news. Total household net worth reached $70.3 trillion, up about $3 trillion...
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ThinkstockIf you ever wondered about a pay disparity between the top and the bottom, pay close attention here. CEOs and presidents are often paid very well at the big banks. SNL Financial has...
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ThinkstockAre there any jobs in Greece? If so, there are plenty of applicants, or at least bodies, that can apply. A report on Thursday showed that the March unemployment rate rose yet again to 26.8%...
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Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims report, the last real employment data ahead of Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls report. The...
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