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| May 31, 2026 | Colorado has known for years that it must allow appeals of unemployment overpayments. So why doesn’t it? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Anthony Kreashko lost his job as an electrician in 2020, so, like legions of Coloradans during the pandemic, he filed for state unemployment benefits.
The regular payments helped keep Kreashko aflo... |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Michigan’s New Bill Takes Aim at AI Employee Surveillance | Most of the AI-in-HR conversation has focused on hiring. Résumé screeners, candidate matching, automated interviews. But if you ask employees where they actually feel AI at work, it’s not in the application process.
It’s in the keystroke tr... |
| Mar 18, 2026 | As Americans struggle with rising costs, many states’ unemployment benefits fall short, analysis finds | The U.S. unemployment insurance system is not prepared for a recession, experts say, with many state benefits covering only a small portion of the average worker’s prior wages.
Most states offer maximum benefits far below recommended levels... |
| Feb 24, 2026 | GigU Integrates Net Profit Calculator Into Its App, Giving Gig Drivers Real-Time Visibility Into What They Actually Earn | New feature expands GigU's Cherry Picker tool to calculate true profit per trip for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other platform drivers — as academic and labor research confirms earnings have declined more than 20% since 2022 Driver empowe... |
| Oct 14, 2025 | What laid off federal workers need to know about their student loans | Federal workers caught in the latest round of layoffs by the Trump administration may lose certain student loan benefits.
However, there are options available that allow borrowers to pause their payments or request a lower payment during di... |
| Sep 8, 2025 | Here’s how to handle your student loans after losing a job | Your monthly student loan bills may seem more daunting amid a slowing job market.
CNBC spoke to experts about to do with your student loans if you’re unemployed or struggling to find a better job.
If you’ve recently lost your job or are str... |
| Jul 22, 2025 | Trump’s Labor Department proposes more than 60 rule changes in a push to deregulate workplaces | “People are at very great risk of dying on the job already,” Rebecca Reindel, the AFL-CIO union’s occupational safety and health director, said. “This is something that is only going to make the problem worse.”
The proposed changes have sev... |
| Apr 15, 2025 | DOGE trumpets unemployment fraud that the government already found years ago | Chavez-DeRemer’s recounting of the alleged fraud, including claims of benefits filed by unborn children, drew laughter in the Cabinet room and a reaction from Trump himself.
“Those numbers are really bad,” he said.
But Chavez-DeRemer needn’... |
| Jan 27, 2025 | Business | Fast food is a staple of American culture, but some of its workers struggle to survive | Meanwhile, a growing number of states have pushed to increase their minimum wage in the face of record-high inflation in recent years. Voters in Alaska approved a ballot initiative in November that will raise the state’s minimum wage to $15... |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Business | Amazon to pay fine, continue to implement safety measures at Colorado warehouses to settle hazardous working condition claims | “This corporate-wide settlement agreement focuses on improving conditions for several hundred thousand Amazon workers nationwide,” Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health Douglas L. Parker said in a statement. “The agreement ... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | Health | How a proposed federal heat rule might have saved these workers’ lives | Laborers have suffered as summers have grown progressively hotter with climate change. But health policy and occupational health researchers say that worker deaths are not inevitable. Employers can save lives by providing ample water and br... |
| May 15, 2024 | Half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle to cover food, housing costs, report finds | Roughly half of frontline warehouse workers at Amazon are having trouble making ends meet, a new report shows. The study comes five years after the online retailer raised minimum hourly wages to $15.
Fifty-three percent of workers said they... |
| Sep 26, 2023 | Working In a Warehouse Is a Decent Gig—Except Where Amazon Sets Up Shop, Report Finds | Amazon announced last week that it is hiring 250,000 employees for its holiday peak season, which it said is “good news for anyone looking for a job.” A new report, however, has found that warehouse workers in areas where Amazon is present ... |
| May 14, 2023 | Misclassifying employees as gig workers creates 'a race to the bottom' for businesses, Biden's top labor and antitrust regulators say | Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel of National Labor Relations Board. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP
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| May 10, 2023 | Steps You Can Take To Avoid Worker Misclassification | Portrait of young businesswoman with white helmet looking up and seen from the industrial steel ... [+] cable reel for crane in factory warehouse. She is testing and working with winding wire and cable drum accessories metal wire spool reel... |
| Apr 10, 2023 | How Fair Chance Hiring Is Good For Businesses And Talent | Founder of Consciously Unbiased, an organization helping companies meet their diversity and inclusion goals. |
| Apr 5, 2023 | Americans don't value hard work like they used to. A Yale professor says it's because it doesn't pay any more. | Tomasz Zajda / EyeEm/Getty Images
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| Feb 26, 2023 | I'm an American who moved to Madrid. Here are 12 things that surprised me most. | News I'm an American who moved to Madrid. Here are 12 things that surprised me most.
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| Feb 2, 2023 | Many California workers are afraid to speak up. These policies could address that | In summary
New research shows that almost 2 in 5 California workers have experienced a workplace violation, but few report it because they fear retaliation. Lawmakers could address those concerns by creating a retaliation fund, educating wo... |
| Jan 27, 2023 | Controversial noncompetes now face a possible ban. But one group never had to worry about them: attorneys | Hundreds of thousands of workers could soon switch jobs if the FTC's proposed noncompete ban gets enacted, recruiters told Insider. zhuweiyi49/Getty Images
The FTC estimates that about 30 million workers are bound by noncompete agreeme... |
| Jan 6, 2023 | Ditching noncompete clauses would be a win for workers' rights and employees in low-wage jobs | The Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule that would ban noncompete clauses. Malte Mueller/Getty Images
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| Jan 5, 2023 | The FTC wants to ban companies from telling their employees they can't work for competitors — and says it'll help workers make $300 billion more a year | FTC chair Lina Khan Graeme Jennings/Pool via REUTERS
The FTC wants to ban noncompete agreements, which stop workers from moving to competitors or starting their own similar businesses.
Under the FTC's proposed rule, employers wouldn�... |
| Dec 31, 2022 | These are the states raising minimum wage in 2023 — see the full list and adjusted rates | Ieisha Franceis, who works at a Freddy's Frozen Custard and Steakburgers in North Carolina, raises her fist in solidarity for a $15 minimum wage. Fight for $15 and a Union
A total of 23 states are hiking minimum wages this year, accord... |
| Dec 27, 2022 | Minimum wage about to rise in 23 states and 41 cities | Many of the nation's lowest-paid workers are set to get a raise.
The minimum wage is increasing on New Year's Day in 41 cities — 28 of them in California — and 23 states. Later in 2023, another five states and 22 cities and counti... |
| Dec 20, 2022 | How a Business Can Give an Applicant With a Record a Fair Chance | Approximately 77 million U.S. adults — more than 1 in 3 — had a criminal record as of 2020, according to the most recent data from the National Conference of State Legislatures, a bipartisan trade association for lawmakers and legislative s... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | How to file for unemployment benefits if you lose your job in an economic downturn | A person walks by the entrance of the New York State Department of Labor offices in Brooklyn, which is closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly
Major tech companies are laying off thousands of workers each.... |
| Nov 1, 2022 | Qwick raises VC money to match gig workers with hospitality jobs | Leisure and hospitality workers are quitting at the highest rates of any industry. About 1 million left the workforce in November 2021 alone, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Why? Seasonality, low pay and monotonous work ar... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | The Amazon Labor Union suffers another loss but vows to keep fighting | The Amazon Labor Union has lost its second straight election at an Amazon warehouse, 406-206, delivering a blow to the momentum the new union had built with its historic win in April and underscoring the heavy odds stacked against organizin... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | Amazon workers in upstate New York are fighting for a crucial second union win | Heather Goodall says the quest to unionize an Amazon warehouse in upstate New York, where a union election began on Wednesday, can be traced back to the suicide of her son, Michael James Fahrenkopf, in 2016. After discovering that a handful... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | Explainer: How the Biden administration could restrict independent contracting | United States
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| Jul 11, 2022 | There's an easy way to cap sky-high CEO salaries and limit outrageous pay gaps — and it would actually work | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Corporate boards, the small group of independent appointees who are supposed to protect the best interests of the world's largest comp... |
| Jan 19, 2022 | Business Reputation Management: How to Create and Maintain a Good Reputation | Creating a good reputation requires careful effort, sometimes taking months or even years to establish. On the other hand, a business's reputation can also be demolished in an instant, and it's a long road to rebuilding.
The best ... |
| Dec 30, 2021 | 31 local governments will increase their minimum wage and require $15 or more for the New Year — these maps show where workers are getting a raise | New state and local minimum wage rates will take effect across the US starting in January.
The federal minimum wage remains at $7.25, but states, cities, and counties can require higher pay.
Two states and 31 local governments will have min... |
| Dec 11, 2021 | California could get an $18 minimum wage. Experts outline how it could get rid of worker shortages and cause a ‘ripple effect’ throughout the country. | , a progressive activist and entrepreneur, filed the ballot initiative. Joe Sanberg
Activists are fighting for an $US18 ($AU25) minimum wage in California — more than double the federal rate.
The boost may help get those fed up with pay dec... |
| Nov 21, 2021 | The era of shortages is unraveling the old American Dream. But that’s not a bad thing. | The postwar American Dream is coming apart at the seams, but a new one is taking its place. Shayanne Gal/Insider
America is running out of everything in 2021: houses, workers, and all kinds of goods.
It’s caused the postwar American Dream, ... |
| Nov 15, 2021 | Amazon settles California claims it concealed COVID-19 cases from workers | November 15, 20219:41 PM UTCLast Updated ago
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| Nov 3, 2021 | Kyrsten Sinema’s hometown is about to raise the minimum wage to $15 – a measure the Arizona senator voted against | Activists with Our Revolution hold $US15 ($AU20) minimum wage signs outside the Capitol complex on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, to call on Congress to pass the $US15 ($AU20) federal minimum wage hike proposed as part of the COVID relief bill. B... |
| Aug 9, 2021 | Can you get unemployment if you lose your job for refusing to get vaccinated? | Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning.
An increasing number of major companies, health systems, and government agencies are incentivizing—and even mandating—employees get vaccinated... |
| Jul 19, 2021 | What Lawmakers Don't Understand About the PRO Act, According to Franchise Owners | July 19, 2021 6 min read
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This story is part of Entrepreneur's Campaign For Our Careers, an effort to raise awareness about the harmful effects of the PRO Act. For more abou... |
| Jul 1, 2021 | Over 200,000 workers are seeing a pay bump today as 2 states and DC up their minimum wages | Activists with Our Revolution hold $15 minimum wage signs outside the Capitol complex on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, to call on Congress to pass the $15 federal minimum wage hike proposed as part of the COVID relief bill. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Ca... |
| Jul 1, 2021 | This map shows the last time each state raised its minimum wage | Protesters took to the streets of New York in 2017 for the Fight for $15 campaign for a higher hourly wage. Erik Mcgregor/Getty Images
The federal minimum wage of $7.25 hasn’t changed since 2009.
Many states and localities have taken matter... |
| Jun 24, 2021 | 7-Eleven owners are using surveillance cameras to prevent workers from stealing, months after some franchisees paid back $173 million over wage-theft accusations | 7-Eleven and other convenience stores have deployed surveillance tech to prevent worker theft and shoplifting, but the companies’ theft of employee wages often goes unscrutinized. Tubagus Aditya Irawan/Getty Images
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| Jun 24, 2021 | 7-Eleven owners are using surveillance cameras to prevent workers from stealing, months after some franchisees paid back $173 million over wage-theft accusations | 7-Eleven and other stores are monitoring workers 24/7 to prevent theft and shoplifting.
But some franchisees were recently told to return $173 million to workers in a wage-theft case.
Some experts say it reflects a "dual standard"... |
| May 27, 2021 | Customer Service Representatives at Maximus File Complaint Against Unfair Wages | Call center workers employed by Maximus have filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor calling for the Biden Administration to revise pay rates for tens of thousands of federally contracted customer service representatives who are... |
| May 16, 2021 | Walmart, 7-Eleven, and McDonald’s shortened hours during the COVID-19 pandemic, and 24 hour shopping might be slow to return | A McDonald’s open 24 hours attracts late night crowds of intoxicated customers. Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
Walmart, McDonald’s, and other chains shortened hours in response to COVID-19.
Some retailers are trying to return to 24/7 service, but th... |
| May 1, 2021 | Amazon was ranked by LinkedIn as the best place to grow your career. But the list omitted major factors like pay and race. | Linkedin published its list of the top US companies for career growth, ranking Amazon first.
LinkedIn's revamped criteria this year included factors like promotion rates and gender diversity.
But the list didn't consider other key... |
| May 1, 2021 | Amazon was ranked by LinkedIn as the best place to grow your career. But the list omitted major factors like pay and race. | LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, ranked Amazon as the best company for US workers to grow their careers in 2021. Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa/Getty Images
Linkedin published its list of the top US companies for career growth, ranking Amazon f... |
| Apr 29, 2021 | The gig is up on 21st-century exploitation | Rebecca Dixon Contributor
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Rebecca Dixon is the executive director of the National Employment Law Project.
Today’s app-based or “gig” economy is frequently dressed up in talk about “modern innovation” and the “21st century o... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | The Case For Raising Wages In Manufacturing | You know there’s a troubling talent gap when, in the same week that 900,000 Americans filed for unemployment, manufacturing executives themselves were forced to fill in on factory floors – as the Wall Street Journal reported. |
| Feb 20, 2021 | How to respond to the 5 most tired, trickle-down arguments against the $15 minimum wage | Demonstrators participate in a protest outside of McDonald’s corporate headquarters on January 15, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and a frequent cohost of the “Pitchfork Econo... |
| Feb 14, 2021 | A $15 minimum wage in 2025 may not be worth $15 by then. Here’s how inflation could take a big bite. | Demonstrators participate in a protest outside of McDonald’s corporate headquarters on January 15, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Democrats are currently pushing to increase the minimum wage to $US15 an hour by 2025.
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| Feb 10, 2021 | Could Bipartisan Support Of The Gig Economy Finally Fix What’s Broken With Healthcare? | On June 17, 1775, after several hours of intense fighting, British soldiers drove the American militia from their position to win the Battle of Bunker Hill. While the victory came at a significant cost to the British, who at the time were a... |
| Jan 6, 2021 | $15 minimum wage edges closer as Democrats win Senate control | A $15 federal minimum wage is more likely after the projected result of Georgia’s runoff election Tuesday for two U.S. Senate seats.
Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, beat the Republican incumbent, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, according to NBC News... |
| Jan 6, 2021 | Every state raising its minimum wage in 2021 | A group of BLM demonstrators protest about $US15 minimum wage in Lower Manhattan’s financial district on July 20, 2020. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
To kick off 2021, 20 states raised their minimum wages.
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| Dec 28, 2020 | All your questions answered about unemployment benefits during the coronavirus pandemic | Personal Finance All your questions answered about unemployment benefits during the coronavirus pandemic
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| Dec 16, 2020 | Why Congress Should Include Both Unemployment Benefits And Stimulus Checks In A New Relief Bill | PALM BAY, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES - 2020/12/08: People line up to receive food at the Share Your ... [+] Christmas food distribution event. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Im... |
| Nov 23, 2020 | Unemployment Benefits May Run Out For 12 Million Americans Right After Christmas | For the tens of millions of Americans who’ve lost their jobs in the coronavirus pandemic, unemployment benefits can be a lifeline, helping to cover the bills while they seek out new work. |
| Nov 3, 2020 | 6 McDonald’s workers say they were pressured to work despite being infected in Chicago COVID cluster, according to new OSHA complaints | McDonald’s workers filed OSHA complaints in two states against the company on Friday. Reuters
A Chicago McDonald’s employee says she and five coworkers were pressured to work after contacting the coronavirus, according to a complaint filed ... |
| Nov 2, 2020 | Don’t shy from mourning job loss or seeking help | ASSOCIATED PRESS / MAY 7
A man wearing a mask walks under a Now Hiring sign at a CVS Pharmacy during the coronavirus outbreak in San Francisco.
According to Department of Labor information, the Sept. 10 advance unadjusted number of people c... |
| Oct 26, 2020 | How Long Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Last? A State-By-State Guide | For the millions of Americans who’ve lost their jobs in this pandemic, unemployment benefits can be critical to covering the bills while seeking new work. |
| Sep 25, 2020 | Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology | TGIF, am I right? Welcome back to Human Capital, where we explore some of the latest news in labor, diversity and inclusion in tech.
This week, we’re looking at the use of “master/slave” terminology in computer programming and the current s... |
| Aug 11, 2020 | It Could Take Weeks For States To Implement New Unemployment—Do This While You Wait | A woman tapes signs to her car before participating in a rally in support of extending the $600 ... [+] unemployment benefit, August 6, 2020.AFP via Getty Images |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Black Workers Twice as Likely to Be Retaliated Against for Coronavirus Concerns, Poll Finds | Over the past week, it seemed like nearly every corporation with a public relations team in America, from Amazon to Instacart to Walmart, published a carefully crafted statement condemning systemic racism. Many of them also donated money to... |
| Apr 21, 2020 | Uber and Lyft drivers accuse companies of holding up unemployment benefits | Nearly a month after the CARES Act expanded jobless aid to include gig workers, drivers for Lyft and Uber sidelined by the coronavirus-related economic shutdown are accusing the ride-share companies of holding up their unemployment benefits... |
| Jan 16, 2019 | Supreme Court ruling gives truckers a victory and a new weapon in labor war at L.A. ports | A U.S. Supreme Court ruling clearing the way for drivers to sue trucking companies could have a major impact on the labor battle that has raged for years at Southern California’s ports, according to worker advocates.
Trucking firms may not ... |
| Aug 31, 2018 | 10 Ways to Honor the Real Spirit of Labor Day | Those of us lucky enough to get Labor Day off are justifiably excited about the holiday weekend: It’s a rare three-day break in the nonstop hell that is capitalism, millions of us will be going on vacation, and it marks the unofficial end o... |
| Dec 31, 2017 | Millions of American workers are getting a small raise on Jan. 1 | 2018 will bring a modest pay bump for about 4.5 million American workers, thanks to minimum-wage increases across the country.
Eighteen states are bumping up their minimum wage this week, which the Economic Policy Institute estimates will r... |
| Jul 7, 2017 | Missouri's governor says raising the minimum wage will take 'money out of people's pockets' - so he's lowering it | Jeff Haynes/Reuters
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens recently announced the $10 hourly minimum St. Louis workers began receiving two months ago will revert back to the state minimum wage of $7.70 on August 28, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports... |
| Dec 21, 2015 | Will poor oversight in home health jobs undermine the opportunity? | A lack of oversight in the rapidly growing home care workforce could undermine new wage and labor gains for many of the nation’s 2 million workers, according to a report released Monday.
Private agencies employ the vast majority of home car... |
| Oct 27, 2015 | 3 Reasons You Should Increase Employee Pay Now | October 27, 2015 4 min read
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Minimum-wage increases are happening, whether you like it or not. In cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, bills have been passed to... |
| Jul 22, 2015 | New York Moves Closer to a $15 Minimum Wage for Fast-Food Employees | July 22, 2015 4 min read
The cost of operating a fast-food franchise in New York is about to get more expensive.
On Wednesday, a panel organized by the state to study worker pay announced its recommendation that New York raise fast-food wor... |
| Aug 19, 2014 | Truth is, those recent housing numbers aren’t so shiny | The mainstream financial media have something to sell you.
It’s optimism. Or optimistic spin.
It doesn’t matter whether they are servicing, in the "old profession" sense of the word, their Wall Street sugar daddies and insider con... |
| Labor Department’s new independent contractor rule could help workers recover lost wages—here’s how | Independent workers make up about 45% of the U.S. workforce, according to a 2023 report by MBO Partners, a platform dedicated to their needs. That’s more than 72 million Americans altogether, with nearly 30 million of them working independe... |
| Why the Amazon union vote is taking so long and what could come next | Last week, the NLRB began counting ballots submitted by workers at Amazon’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse, who are voting whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
The vote count is just the beginning of what’s likely... |
| Unemployed Americans thought they’d receive benefits until September. Now that aid is in jeopardy | Unemployed Americans thought they’d receive benefits until September.
Now that aid is in jeopardy in a growing number of states, with Republicans saying it’s causing a labor shortage.
Others say cutting the benefits prematurely will only ma... |
| In the U.S., you can legally ‘be fired for any reason or no reason at all’—here’s why | Tech companies have been making headlines lately for laying off hundreds and even thousands of employees. Twitter was the first, cutting hundreds of staff members overnight on November 3, and Meta followed suit, announcing it would cut more... |
| The $7.25 minimum wage can’t pay all the bills in any state | It appears Democrats won’t add a $15 federal minimum wage to the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill, after legislative setbacks.
The current federal minimum wage, $7.25 an hour, isn’t enough for full-time workers to pay bills in any state, acc... |
| In Letter to Senators, DOL Clarifies Scope of the CARES Act’s Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program | On April 17, 2020, the Department of Labor’s Deputy Assistant Secretary Joe Wheeler responded by letter to Senator Ron Wyden and other Democratic lawmakers who had raised concerns about the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act... |
| Will poor oversight in home health jobs undermine the opportunity? | A lack of oversight in the rapidly growing home care workforce could undermine new wage and labor gains for many of the nation’s 2 million workers, according to a report released Monday.
Private agencies employ the vast majority of home car... |
| If federal regulators ban noncompete agreements, ‘I’d be the first person to start working again,’ advisor says | The Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule that would ban noncompete clauses nearly across the board.
A member of CNBC’s Financial Advisor Council, currently bound by such an agreement, describes what this regulation would mean to him. |
| Could pandemic unemployment be extended beyond Labor Day? What experts are saying | Lawmakers, economists and advocates are working to extend a handful of key federal aid programs established at the beginning of the pandemic, many of which are scheduled to end just as the delta variant has caused Covid caseloads to rise ac... |
| 31 local governments will increase their minimum wage and require $15 or more for the New Year — these maps show where workers are getting a raise | Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
New state and local minimum wage rates will take effect across the US starting in January.
The federal minimum wage remains at $7.25, but states, cities, and counties can require higher pay.
Two states and 31 local go... |
| 5 U.S. employment laws every person entering the job market should know | Millions of young people attend college every year, most with the hope of gaining more job opportunities as a result. Nearly 16 million people were enrolled in undergraduate programs in the fall of 2020, according to EducationData.org, and ... |
| Proposed ban on noncompete clauses could affect ‘every business in the country,’ says attorney — what that means for you | The Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule that would ban companies from requiring workers to sign noncompete clauses.
Approximately 30 million workers are bound by these agreements, which are meant to protect the investments companies ha... |
| Amazon workers just voted to join a union — here’s what happens next | Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted to unionize, the first time that’s happened at one of the company’s U.S. facilities.
The Amazon Labor Union, which is a new organization, now has to get to work trying to negotiate a collect... |
| Many Americans, especially families, can’t live on a $15 minimum wage | Democrats want a $15 minimum wage policy to be included in President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan.
A $15 hourly pay scale would more than double the current $7.25 federal minimum wage.
It still wouldn’t offer a living wage to... |
| Workers overpaid in pandemic unemployment may no longer have to return the money | In recent months, hundreds of thousands of self-employed, freelance and gig workers have been notified that they’ve been overpaid in unemployment benefits during the pandemic and must return the funds to their state. The latest $900 billion... |
| Kyrsten Sinema's hometown is about to raise the minimum wage to $15 — a measure the Arizona senator voted against | Activists with Our Revolution hold $15 minimum wage signs outside the Capitol complex on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, to call on Congress to pass the $15 federal minimum wage hike proposed as part of the COVID relief bill. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Ca... |
| The $7.25 federal minimum wage just turned 13 years old. This map shows the last time states raised their wages | Protesters took to the streets of New York in 2017 for the Fight for $15 campaign for a higher hourly wage. Erik Mcgregor/Getty Images
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The current federal minimum wage has been $7.25 for 13 straight years now; the last increase w... |
| 21 states raised their minimum wage in January: The highest minimum is not in California or New York | While the federal minimum wage has remained $7.25 per hour since 2009, states across the U.S. have been hiking their own minimum wages to ensure residents earn a better living.
Many states automatically raise their minimum wage on Jan. 1 li... |
| A million more U.S. workers can now get overtime pay: ‘Most employers absolutely do want to get this right’ | On July 1, more than a million workers became eligible for overtime pay.
The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act established a 40-hour workweek with certain workers eligible for overtime pay of 1.5 times their regular wage if they work past the 4... |
| Child poverty rates highest in states that haven’t raised minimum wage | Of the 20 states that have failed to raise the minimum wage above the federal $7.25 an hour standard, 16 have more than 12% of their children living in poverty, according to a States Newsroom analysis of wage and poverty data. Anti-poverty ... |
