Machines are cheaper than people, marginal wage increase or not.
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Amazon's wage increase last year, by contrast, benefited 350,000 employees.
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Economists had been expecting a wage increase of 2000 percent.
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Congressional economists also analyzed possible outcomes with a smaller wage increase.
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However, New York wage increase will be slower than other states'.
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Take, for example, that 2.9 percent annual wage increase in September.
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While the steep wage increase is good for people like Mrs.
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The offer included a wage increase of 3 percent from Oct.
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In short, a minimum wage increase doesn't impact just minimum wages.
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It is seeking a 6 percent wage increase or more time off.
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We haven&apost had a federal minimum wage increase in nine years.
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Public sentiment is overwhelmingly on the side of a minimum-wage increase.
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Andrew Cuomo is pushing for a general minimum wage increase to $15.
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Deutsche Post had offered a wage increase of 3 percent from Oct.
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We passed a statewide minimum-wage increase, the highest in the country.
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Last week Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh vetoed a $15 minimum wage increase.
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Alabama lawmakers responded by passing a law that abolished the wage increase.
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American workers were promised a minimum $4,000 wage increase in one year.
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Meanwhile, the four Democrats running against them support the minimum wage increase.
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The minimum wage increase also might have forced Pennsylvania employers to raise their wages in response, which could make Pennsylvania a bad control group: it's not unaffected by the minimum wage increase in New Jersey, it's also affected.
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San Francisco is set for another minimum wage increase in about a year.
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Disney subsequently extended the wage increase to all its 70,000 employees in Orlando.
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"Weve now had the longest period without a minimum wage increase," he said.
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We hadn&apost seen a median wage increase for I think 212 years.
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"We've now had the longest period without a minimum wage increase," he said.
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Jerry Brown have said such a steep wage increase would be incredibly costly.
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The wage increase coincides with 19 states adding implementing new minimum wage laws.
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Last month marked the longest period in American history without a wage increase.
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Republicans have also pulled a bait and switch with a minimum wage increase.
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But there's no reason it would happen only after a minimum-wage increase.
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Andrew M. Cuomo wants to institute a minimum-wage increase for tipped workers.
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In other words, a control group is a group of geographic units that matches Seattle so closely before the minimum wage increase that any difference in outcomes between Seattle and "Synthetic Seattle" can plausibly arise only from the minimum wage increase.
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The layoffs went unaddressed but the wage increase attracted praise from the White House.
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The wage increase will affect "tens of thousands" of employees, a Target spokeswoman said.
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"A little bit of a wage increase can go a long way," Evitt said.
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The wage increase coincides with new minimum wage laws recently passed in 19 states.
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Zandi cites the Employment Cost Index, which shows a 2.9% wage increase last quarter.
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Oregon also passed a significant minimum wage increase in response to a ballot initiative.
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The union had been seeking a 6 percent wage increase or more time off.
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Phil Murphy (D) and lawmakers reached a deal for the wage increase in January.
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This was no election security measure or minimum wage increase or drug pricing legislation.
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Any minimum wage increase made through executive order would only apply to federal contractors.
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The wage increase would have cost him an extra $2116,215 in added salaries, he said.
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Amazon's wage increase will benefit more than 250,000 Amazon employees and another 100,000 seasonal employees.
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Yes, but: One group on the other side of that wage increase is America's teachers.
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Women without kids see a nearly 30% wage increase over 10 years, compared to mothers.
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Consider, for example, an analysis of a minimum-wage increase that showed zero job losses.
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Fundamentally, the number that we got with the 2.9 percent wage increase is good news.
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The wage increase in part drove overall, selling, general and administrative expenses up 11 percent.
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IG Bau construction union had demanded a wage increase of 5.9 percent for its workers.
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American workers need more than a minimum wage increase — they need more expansive labor reforms.
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It has raised wages, improved worker benefits and advocated for a federal minimum wage increase.
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Indeed, after our wage-increase announcement, we received a record 848,775 applications for hourly positions.
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Unlike the Trump tax scam, which yielded essentially no wage increase to working class families, a minimum wage increase would function as an economic stimulus by putting money in the pockets of folks who need it most – and who are most likely to spend it.
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On Friday, wage increase figures and jobs data compounded worries over U.S. economic growth for 2019.
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Another argument often used against a minimum wage increase is that it would dampen job growth.
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But the wage increase has translated to higher costs for companies with assembly lines in China.
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The question then becomes, how much of a minimum wage increase will cities and states tolerate?
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United Electric (a major electricity workers' union) demanded a wage increase of 25 cents per hour.
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But in the first quarter, the lowest quartile saw a 4.4% wage increase year on year.
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Both unions want a 7.5 wage increase and also have demands on working hours and holidays.
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The union's proposals include an 8 percent annual wage increase for each year of the contract.
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As a result, the ad says, their working conditions improved and they received a wage increase.
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The strikers were demanding a minimum 21961-cents-an-hour wage increase, workplace safeguards and dignity.
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A dramatic minimum wage increase is just one part of the agenda that threatens small businesses.
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Wealth in America is consolidating, and workers haven't seen a significant wage increase in 22019 years.
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Construction union IG Bau has called for a wage increase of 5.9 percent for its workers.
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And so you have a minimum wage increase, and you shift some of that toward workers.
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Florida voters overwhelmingly back a minimum wage increase, according to a Quinnipiac University poll in July.
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This was followed by the announcement of a 16 percent minimum wage increase across the country.
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The Berkeley study found the wage increase boosted weekly wages and, more importantly, didn't kill jobs.
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The wage increase amounted to $300 million more than the company had planned before the cuts.
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Striking assistants said the wage increase was necessary to keep up with the cost of living.
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In South Korea, a minimum-wage increase in 2018 was accompanied by subsidies for small firms.
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The bold minimum wage increase has 152 supporters in the House and 31 in the Senate.
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Last April, Starbucks offered all employees a pay bump in addition to their annual wage increase.
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Air France unions have been protesting after management rejected their demands for a six percent wage increase.
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"The middle class, many of them haven't had an effective wage increase in 20 years," Trump said.
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Owners of business services firms voiced the highest support, with 215 percent favoring a minimum wage increase.
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The company, however, stressed that the wage increase "more than compensates" for the loss in other benefits.
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Importantly, the effect of the wage increase was about as large as taking an anti-depressant medication.
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A party of people that haven't had a real wage increase in 18 years, that are angry.
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"There's no question that a minimum-wage increase will help more people than it hurts," he said.
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Port workers are seeking a 32 percent wage increase as inflation has eaten into consumer buying power.
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They pointed to Alabama's Constitution, which they say state lawmakers relied on to abolish Birmingham's wage increase.
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When a company trumpets a wage increase, it needs to amount to a real hike in pay.
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The workers who worked the most ahead of the minimum-wage increase appeared to do the best.
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That, of course, is the exact opposite of what a minimum wage increase is supposed to do.
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"It is our anticipation that within 35 days, there'll be a minimum-wage increase," Mr. O'Toole said.
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It illustrates what would happen absent a minimum-wage increase in a city that is not booming.
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The median hourly wage increase, 3.1 percent in 2016, is harder to pin on any one cause.
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If we use the same cost-per-dollar wage increase, that turns out to be $1.2 billion.
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The next most popular was the minimum-wage increase of 2007, which checked in at 83.5 percent.
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A recent wage increase from the government brought PMF pay into line with that of Iraqi soldiers.
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And yet, the Wall Street Journal editors, as well as many other opponents of a minimum wage increase, are still ignoring another enormous factor – the most enormous factor – that would even further support their position: The effect of a minimum wage increase on all wages across the board.
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The wage increase is unlikely to make a big difference due to rapidly increasing inflation and food prices.
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New York City's wage increase illustrates how far the "Fight for $15" movement has come into the mainstream.
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The company has also proposed a plan to raise employee healthcare contributions—all with no corresponding wage increase.
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Another factor often not recognized is that small businesses would be disproportionately affected by a minimum wage increase.
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In fact, for every new child, mothers actually saw a slight wage increase of roughly $780 per year.
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Guadagno similarly opposes Murphy's proposed wage increase and backed Christie's veto of a $85033 minimum wage last year.
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A minimum wage increase would help address one of the most persistent weaknesses in our economy: stagnant wages.
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No employee, in other words, will lose more in incentive pay than they gain in a wage increase.
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For example, I believe that since the minimum wage increase, small businesses are going to be greatly effected.
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The suit charged that suburban white state legislators illegally barred a citywide minimum wage increase adopted in 2015.
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Some House-passed proposals died in the Senate but others, including the minimum-wage increase, did become law.
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Anything more than that expected wage increase could push interest rates even higher and fuel a stock selloff.
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"I think typically, the easiest way to get a wage increase is to just change jobs," he says.
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In 2016, employers and unions agreed on a two-stage wage increase of 5.3 percent for 24 months.
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Verdi has demanded a 17.43 percent wage increase or more time off for around 217.4,289.8 Deutsche Post workers.
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Individuals that moved off welfare experienced on average a 247 percent wage increase as they entered the workforce.
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The EVG wants a 7.5 percent wage increase and has also made demands on working hours and holidays.
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The wage increase brings Walmart in line with some of its retail rivals amid a tightening labor market.
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The wage increase announced for state employees would cost the state $1.5 million and will take effect immediately.
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But there was an increase in wages, of 210 percent, and that was the wage increase in seven years.
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While a court date is pending, the 57% of Washingtonians who voted for the wage increase won't stay silent.
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In consumer products and services businesses and agriculture, however, only 22012 percent of owners support a minimum wage increase.
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The wage increase comes as Target prepares to hire more than 100,000 hourly workers for the busy holiday season.
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It is having to pay staff more: a wage increase last year of 0003% was the biggest since 2010.
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The company is also investing in its stores, including its highly publicized wage increase and training program for employees.
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No minimum wage increase can come close to the cascading effects of a wider distribution of ownership and profits.
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The reality is that inflation-adjusted wages—despite the recent minimum wage increase in several states—have been shrinking.
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The tax cuts enabled Emerson to grant a 2.9 percent general wage increase worth $42 million and better benefits.
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Last month marked the longest period in American history without a wage increase, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
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Cory McCray (D), who sponsored the bill in the state senate, said the wage increase would benefit 573,000 workers.
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South Africa's power utility Eskom on Thursday raised its wage increase offer to 6.2 percent from 4.7 percent previously.
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A public-sector wage increase in 2017 and higher interest rates have added to pressures on the budget deficit.
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That 2.5 percent annual wage increase explained exactly why interest rates held their ground, the "Mad Money" host said.
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And, as is often the case, that tiny wage increase disappeared as a result of soaring health care costs.
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The staggered wage increase will apply to most workers at those airports, including baggage handlers, cabin cleaners and caterers.
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An earlier version of this article misstated in one instance the year of the minimum wage increase in Seattle.
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Contrary to opponents' fearmongering, economic forecasters found that Arizona's wage increase benefited the state's economy, especially food service employees.
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The White House promised that the tax cuts would result in an annual wage increase of $4,000 per household.
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The strike began at 1300 GMT after workers rejected management's offer last week of a 13.6 percent wage increase.
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The American Trucking Association estimates there are 48,000 vacant trucking jobs, which may be why Walmart announced its wage increase.
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Amazon said the wage increase announced earlier this month was incorporated into the guidance, but declined to quantify its impact.
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The union is demanding a 6 percent wage increase or more time off for around 13,000 workers at Deutsche Post.
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The minimum-wage increase is pennies, however, compared with the amount Bezos makes each hour, based on our calculations: $4,474,885.
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Air France management has said that the unions' demands for a six percent wage increase could jeopardize its growth plans.
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THESE WORKERS, THESE INCREDIBLE WORKERS, THESE MIDDLE CLASS -- MANY OF THEM HAVEN'T HAD AN EFFECTIVE WAGE INCREASE IN 20 YEARS.
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Indeed, Wal-Mart's previous dollar wage increase was quickly matched by retailers like Target, T.J. Maxx, Ross, and even McDonald's.
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Amazon's minimum-wage increase for its hourly workers comes with a trade-off: no more monthly bonuses and stock awards.
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The union said it would continue talks with the government on another wage increase, which would take effect in August.
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According to a statement released today by the online retail giant, the wage increase will affect more than 350,000 workers.
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Citizens had complained that they could not afford basic items despite a previous 60-fold minimum wage increase in August.
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This worker experiences a strong negative employment impact of the minimum wage increase, but actually has substantially higher annual earnings.
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The new rate is 1 pound above the government mandated National Living Wage increase which comes into effect April 1.
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They said a minimum wage increase would cause job losses and that their decision had nothing to do with race.
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In both cases, a $15 wage would lead to slightly more jobs than in the absence of the wage increase.
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To the contrary, in the substantial majority of instances (68 percent) overall employment increased after a federal minimum-wage increase.
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As "Brexit" showed, something will eventually give that may be far more uncertain and disruptive than a minimum-wage increase.
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TRADE UNIONS INCLUDING CABIN CREW DEMANDING 8% WAGE INCREASE, JOB SECURITY FOR 3 YEARS, IN-SOURCING OF ALL OUTSOURCED SERVICES
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Hallett says that critics of a minimum wage increase in restaurants said it would result in widespread layoffs and closures.
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Mr. Romanoff said that because of resistance from some employees, the company had decided to phase in the wage increase.
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Liberals and leftists generally back a higher minimum wage, while the GOP tends not to support any minimum wage increase.
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Last year, the average wage increase among 312 major companies was 2.11 percent before bonuses, according to labor ministry figures.
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In Arizona, the campaign favoring the wage increase spent $3 million to opponents' $26,000, according to the latest financial disclosures.
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In the same budget bill as family leave, New York legislators also passed a $15 minimum wage increase like California's.
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The article also misstated the amount of a wage increase that Marta Ramos, a janitor at Apple, received this year.
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The economic data released yesterday also showed that average hourly wages rose, pushing the yearly wage increase to 2628 percent.
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If people were laid off because of a minimum-wage increase, their loss of wages wouldn't factor into the average.
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It's come down a little from the almost 3 [percent] we saw, but it's still a 2.7 percent wage increase.
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Even more important, we should remember that the Washington analysis is a single study of a single minimum-wage increase.
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The deal includes an 18 percent, or minimum 75,000 forint ($271) per month, wage increase in 2019, the union said.
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Spain, for instance, has implemented a 22 percent minimum wage increase, the largest annual rise in more than 40 years.
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According to the Roosevelt Institute's estimates, redirecting the buybacks to wages would translate to a $5.66 wage increase for employees.
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The topics included the overall tone of the campaign, the 1994 crime bill, and New York's recent minimum wage increase.
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Another study found that the 1998-103 San Francisco wage increase affected airport workers at 40 percent over the new minimum.
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Obviously, fast food workers don't need a wage increase, because customers provide them with Hennessy—and apparently, all those fat tips.
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Getting a wage increase helps workers cope with life stresses that promote the risk of depression and other mental health disorders.
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But unlike a minimum wage increase, it would direct employers' additional spending on workers into government coffers instead of workers' pockets.
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And some New York businesses recently told The Wall Street Journal that they struggled to keep up after the wage increase.
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UNIONS AT SOUTH AFRICA'S STATE AIRLINE SAA REJECT WAGE INCREASE OFFER FROM THE COMPANY, SAY STRIKE WILL GO AHEAD ON FRIDAY
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" But, he added, "I believe the minimum wage increase, done correctly, will stimulate the upstate economy, but that is a calibration.
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They should definitely look into a wage increase, but as I understand it, it's possible that they like the revolving door.
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Nor did we hear much about how Trump is blocking a minimum wage increase or federal nondiscrimination rules for LGBTQ people.
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Last week, teachers protested and threatened to strike if their demand for a wage increase averaging around 6% was not met.
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Last week, teachers protested and threatened to strike if their demand for a wage increase averaging around 6% was not met.
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Still, there is some evidence that Seattle's labor market shifted into overdrive around the time of the larger minimum-wage increase.
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Mr. Cuomo said he felt no competitiveness with California, where legislators approved the wage increase on Thursday, sending it to Gov.
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"If the Fed had achieved their goal of 2 percent, almost their entire wage increase would be wiped out by inflation."
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Results from Seattle's minimum wage ordinance mirror Gusto's findings — employee turnover declined as a result of the city's minimum wage increase.
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Activists cheered progress by candidates who endorsed some form of free public college, expanded access to Medicare or a minimum wage increase.
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Investors will look to fourth-quarter guidance to see what kind of impact the wage increase will have on Amazon's overall business.
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The retailer in February implemented the second phase of an hourly wage increase for its employees to at least $10 per hour.
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In 1996, that meant voting for a minimum-wage increase to defuse a potential Democratic talking point in his re-election campaign.
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The other group included workers who did not get a wage increase because they were paid just above the minimum wage threshold.
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The same report found that 70 percent of graduates were employed and had a 50 percent wage increase six months after graduation.
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The union is calling for a 6 percent wage increase for 200,000 workers that it represents in state and publicly-listed banks.
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The airline said on Wednesday it had dropped demands that would see pilots working more hours in exchange for a wage increase.
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The Republicans coming out in support of a minimum wage increase are listening to real small business owners and their own constituents.
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The extra holiday pay comes in addition to a huge wage increase airline pilots, overall, have seen over the past five years.
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For proponents of a wage increase, the net effect of 28503 million fewer people living in poverty is worth the trade-offs.
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" Long reasoned that the quick second wage increase of two dollars an hour, "could have been… too fast for businesses to adjust.
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The wage increase, at least so far, has not had a measurable impact on retention for the company's hardest-to-fill jobs.
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Since wage increase has been minimal, post-grad salaries aren't exactly offsetting the education costs spent in hopes of landing a job.
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The state repealed right-to-work laws and passed a minimum-wage increase and an ethics reform bill, and approved medical marijuana.
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Chris Christie vetoed a minimum-wage increase, voters robustly approved a constitutional amendment raising the wage by $183 from $218 to $210.
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The wage increase comes as the company plans to announce the location of its second headquarters before the end of this year.
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The AIREF fiscal watchdog, an independent body, estimates that 40,000 jobs would be lost in 2019 because of the minimum wage increase.
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The workers had settled for an immediate 10-cent-an-hour wage increase plus a 5-cent increase later in the year.
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With consumer price inflation at 2.3% on the year in December, employees still have a modest wage increase after accounting for inflation.
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Malloy, a Democrat, also proposed to freeze wages until 2019, before a 3.5 percent wage increase a year in 2020 and 2021.
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In Seattle, a minimum-wage increase from $11 to $13 resulted in reduced hours worked and reduced payrolls for minimum-wage earners.
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And the wage increase was also softer-than-expected despite its annual rise hovering close to levels not seen in almost a decade.
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To soften the blow, Maduro vowed that the government would cover three months of the wage increase for small and medium-sized companies.
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ESM included a 5.5% general wage increase spread over five years, with the potential for additional raises tied to the province's economic performance.
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John Swanciger, CEO of Manta, said he was initially surprised by the percentage of small-business owners who support a minimum wage increase.
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It would basically provide a 2000 percent wage increase to the bottom 23 percent of American households, whose wages have stagnated from 33.
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While GM rakes in robust profits, as of that visit, many workers hadn't seen a fair wage increase in more than a decade.
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On Thursday, Maduro announced a 40 percent minimum wage increase to approximately 91,000 bolivars per month — or roughly $70 in the black market.
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Seattle-based Starbucks said it will give hourly and salaried employees, who received pay raises in January, a second wage increase in April.
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The company has been battling rising costs from a minimum wage increase, higher property prices and a Brexit-driven slide in the pound.
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In 22015, when Bracero workers weren't available to pick grapes, the Farm Workers Union secured a 22 percent wage increase for its workers.
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They looked at the same time period and same wage increase, but this time broke down the actual take-home pay of workers.
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The bill will increase Massachusetts' minimum wage from $22019 an hour to $15 an hour by 2023 — a wage increase similar to California's.
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Strikes and other labor protests are common in Argentina, where high inflation prompts wage increase demands from workers wary of losing purchasing power.
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If a business can't afford a wage increase that would allow its workers to make ends meet, then maybe that business shouldn't exist.
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Phil Murphy and the Democrats who lead the state Legislature disagreed over which workers should be included in the wage increase, NJ.com reports.
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In one study, for example, a $0.80 minimum wage increase equated to a 3.2% increase of food prices in restaurants in New Jersey.
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Seven senior HVAC engineers will earn about $81,000 and HVAC supervisors will take home $86,000, a 22 percent wage increase over previous years.
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Since the wage increase began in 2015, Seattle/Tacoma's job growth has slightly outpaced the state of Washington as a whole, at 12.9%.
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Most seriously, skeptics argue that the researchers confused the effects of a minimum-wage increase with the effects of a hot labor market.
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But, to top it off, while it trumpeted the piddling wage increase, the company was stabbing its Sam's Club workers in the back.
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About 2628,28503 workers in New Zealand will soon see a pay increase, as the country's government on Wednesday announced a minimum wage increase.
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In July 20103, activists delivered 22010,207 signatures to the secretary of state to place the minimum wage increase on the ballot that year.
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But a hole-in-one of the wage increase the CEA report describes is what should grab the attention of congressional tax writers.
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There are a million reasons why, say, employment might have grown more slowly in California following a minimum wage increase than in Arizona.
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A $28500,6900 after-tax wage increase spread over a year will not finance a kitchen remodel and certainly won't buy a new car.
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Maduro had said the government would cover three months of the wage increase for small and medium-sized companies to soften the blow.
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"We also want the (production) targets to be met as we trust that we can agree on the wage increase," he told Reuters.
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Air France staff began their first of 6900 days of industrial action throughout April over a demand for a 2628-percent wage increase.
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But under Obama, the poor and middle class had their biggest annual wage increase ever, and more Americans had health insurance than ever.
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And it shows that old, young, female and black low-skilled workers face the highest levels of unemployment after a minimum-wage increase.
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Minimum wage increase: A million fast-food and other workers in New York City began making at least $238 an hour on Monday.
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The pay increase, Walmart's third minimum wage increase since 2015, and bonus will benefit more than 1 million U.S. hourly workers, the company said.
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Weinstein disagrees with the notion that a federal minimum wage increase is bad for Main Street, and said higher wages haven't hurt his business.
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Amazon did announce a minimum wage increase last year, and CEO Jeff Bezos implored the company's competitors to do the same earlier this year.
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Finance Minister Mateja Vranicar Erman told a news conference on Wednesday that she hoped the wage increase would not require rewriting the government's budget.
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The change means some 59,000 employees could receive a wage increase of up to 35 percent, according to calculations by the Attorney General's Office.
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Not far behind were construction, with 210 percent of owners favoring a minimum wage increase and 20123 percent of owners in retail supporting it.
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Wal-Mart's wage increase and investment into training was a "major concession" for the company — and one that was very costly, Cornell's Bronfenbrenner said.
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At the daily White House press briefing, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was asked if the president's policies were responsible for the Walmart wage increase.
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Employers have offered a 6.8 percent wage increase but rejected the demand for shorter hours unless they can also increase workers' hours when necessary.
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Guzmán ran for delegate on a progressive campaign of "Medicaid for All," early childhood education, and a minimum wage increase to $15 per hour.
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Employers have offered a 6.8 percent wage increase, but rejected the demand for shorter hours unless they can also increase workers' hours when necessary.
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They didn't bother to do the math to see that the percentage of our price increase was actually higher than the wage increase percentage.
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That draft agreement, which also contains a general wage increase of 5 percent over the 2019-2021 period, is open for signatures until Friday.
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IG Metall chief Joerg Hofmann said in a statement that a wage increase would help bolster domestic spending, thereby supporting the economy, Europe's largest.
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The average wage increase by 4.23 firms in Keidanren, a business association made up mainly of large manufacturers, was 0.4%, according to the IMF.
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HARUHIKO KURODA: As you know, from-- February this year, the U.S. studies show that-- somewhat-- stronger than expected wage increase and-- and-- employment increase.
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Just as no physicist would claim that 'water runs uphill,' no self-respecting economist would claim that increases in the minimum wage increase employment.
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"Tomorrow, Congress can vote to raise wages for more than 33 million people with the first minimum wage increase in a decade," the said.
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And Fifth Third Bancorp, without any of Wells Fargo's baggage, announced both a minimum wage increase to $15 and a bonus plan this week.
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The reason for this is that restaurants do not have to raise prices very much in order to pay for a minimum wage increase.
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In theory, the Democrats could be filibustering to force votes on a minimum wage increase (as they did in 1996), college education support, etc.
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This year, workers at Australia's largest envelope manufacturing plant pushed for an annual wage increase of 2.5 percent — close to the rate of inflation.
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But the wage increase, Mr. Parrott told me, has left Uber and Lyft paying a combined additional $50 million a month in driver pay.
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" • "It has not been raised since 2009, the longest time the country has gone without a minimum-wage increase since it was established 1938.
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Employers have offered a 13 percent wage increase, but rejected the demand for shorter hours unless they can also increase workers' hours when necessary.
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At that meeting, several people told us, one ambassador brought up the subject of a wage increase, which seemed to surprise the managers present.
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Klass said a government-mandated wage increase would put many of NFIB's member in a bind, as many members have 20 or less employees.
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Mr. Prendergast said on Wednesday that the workers deserved a raise, and that the authority had planned on a 2 percent annual wage increase.
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He said his construction firm had told employees in late August after the wage increase that it could no longer afford to pay them.
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"The big question then is whether the minimum wage increase might prove to be the pre-cursor to other post-election reforms," she added.
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It has not been raised since 2009, the longest time the country has gone without a minimum-wage increase since it was established 1938.
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It has not been raised since 2009, the longest time the country has gone without a minimum-wage increase since it was established 1938.
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Last summer, SEIU members knocked on doors and made phone calls to help elect eight new city council members who endorsed the minimum wage increase.
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The big news came in the 0.4 percent wage increase that drove the annual rate of growth to 2.8 percent, the fastest rate since 2009.
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With the help of the Teamsters Union, UPS workers organized a list of demands: more full-time jobs, a wage increase, and no more subcontracting.
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" Additionally, Wal-Mart opted to give employees a wage increase, and Elfenbein said the company is "cleaning up their stores and going after Target's audience.
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The wage increase comes amid unprecedented political scrutiny of tech giants — scrutiny that, so far, has focused on Facebook, Google, and Twitter rather than Amazon.
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A report that showed a 2.9 percent wage increase — revised lower subsequently — triggered a minor panic about inflation that led to a stock market correction.
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That is true more than ever after President Nicolas Maduro announced this month higher corporate taxes and a 60-fold minimum wage increase, advisors say.
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I was working in fast food at the time and I remember when January rolled around and the annual minimum wage increase went into effect.
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The agreement, reached on Monday, includes a cumulative 14 percent wage increase over a four-year period, three people familiar with the deal told Reuters.
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Yes, I am aware that some of the wage increase might be expected to come from the growth-inducing benefits of a corporate tax cut.
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We find that both would improve health, but a scheduling change would have effects that were two-to-three times larger than the wage increase.
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The union has said Caesars workers had asked for a wage increase of 4.2 percent effective Friday, and annual increases of about 4 percent thereafter.
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For example, both Washington and Oregon have recently enacted statewide minimum wage increases, with Seattle having passed the highest minimum wage increase in the country.
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DAVID PACCHIANA Cortlandt Manor, N.Y. To the Editor: We agree with your editorial regarding the need to support a minimum-wage increase for New York.
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In either case, it would be the boom, and not a minimum-wage increase, that was reducing the number of hours worked at low wages.
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An approach like this could pave the political path for a substantial and permanent minimum wage increase for millions of Americans, and that's not nothing.
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This, in turn, invites the original question: Is Seattle's boom driving the loss of low-paying work, or is its minimum-wage increase to blame?
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At the very same time, the city's mandatory wage increase for drivers — which ensures a minimum hourly wage of $17.22, after expenses — also took hold.
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Their demand was for the administration to support the wage increase without passing the expense on to students in the form of fees and tuition.
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According to Walmart's press release, the cost of the company's hourly wage increase is $300 million for the fiscal year that begins on Feb. 1.
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To halt the strikes, Lufthansa said on Wednesday it had dropped demands that would see pilots working more hours in exchange for a wage increase.
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Under the proposed agreement, Harley's employees would have received a 14 percent wage increase during the contract period as well as a $2,250 signing bonus.
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The strike ended later on Tuesday, as the workers agreed with the company on a wage increase, the Vasas trade union said on its website.
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Simon called the wage increase and bonuses "just the tip of the iceberg" when it comes to the money Walmart will see from tax reform.
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A 15 percent wage increase for health and education workers has also been approved by parliament, while the PSD also wants to hike other welfare spending.
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"That's the second highest wage on our list after neighboring city San Jose, and the second largest wage increase after Oklahoma City," according to the report.
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If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage.
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But Mr. Cuomo's announcement upset Barbara Bowen, president of the Professional Staff Congress, which represents CUNY faculty and staff members not covered by the wage increase.
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The IMF also said that a wage increase for specific groups of public sector workers was justified, while sounding a note of caution over wage growth.
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A cook in the back also got a (very slight) minimum wage increase from $8.75 to $9 an hour, but that employee doesn't receive any gratuities.
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"When does American working class w/out real wage increase in 15yrs & who send their kids to overcrowded public schools get amnesty?" asked Ingraham on Twitter.
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In Seattle, the city's rising minimum wage decreased earnings for affected workers by $125 per month; in San Francisco, the minimum wage increase closed numerous businesses.
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Results showed that, after the national minimum wage went into effect in 1999, only those who got a wage increase showed better scores on mental health.
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And University of Washington economists revised an initial study of Seattle's recent minimum wage increase that had showed significant negative effects on earnings for some workers.
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This was especially true of the more recent minimum-wage increase, from as high as $11 an hour to up to $13 an hour in 2016.
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The plan also included other caveats: Businesses with 10 or fewer employees will have nearly four years to institute the wage increase in New York City.
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In Maine, the state legislature threw out the voter-approved tax on the rich, and amended the minimum wage increase to exclude workers who receive tips.
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While some experts — Natixis economist Joseph LaVorgna among them — aren't convinced the wage increase will trigger meaningful inflationary pressures, the market, for now, is clearly concerned.
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The Raise the Wage Act would be the biggest federal minimum wage increase in history, and it would additionally peg future minimum wage increases to inflation.
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Earlier this year, millions of workers across nineteen states — under both Democratic and Republican control — got a minimum wage increase at the beginning of the year.
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To be sure, a bonus is not the same as a wage increase; it's a one-time boost, not a benefit employees will enjoy for years.
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The wage increase applies to government employees and pensioners, which means that workers in the informal economy, a significant part of the country's workforce, won't be affected.
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As part of the agreement, security guards will see an hourly wage increase of up to $43 by January, improved healthcare and vacation plan, and paid holidays.
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And a study published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior found that those who ask for a wage increase boost their starting salaries by $103,000, on average.
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Pugh, who campaigned on the promise to support a minimum wage increase, says she had a change of heart after looking at the impact on the budget.
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Business groups in opposition to the minimum wage increase, like the Chamber of Commerce, are forgetting the wisdom of one of our country's most storied business titans.
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While LA was the largest city at the time to enact a minimum wage increase, it is not yet up to $15 an hour, as Garcetti implies.
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The most important concern is that it was not a true experiment, because workers could not be randomly selected to either get a wage increase or not.
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VICE: How much of this minimum wage increase is actually the result of political pressure from people like Bernie, and how much is it about their competitors?
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"For the last four years consecutively, we were able to increase the wage levels...basically, the momentum for wage increase is being sustained," Abe said on Monday.
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Lawmakers overrode then-Governor Jay Nixon's veto to enact the measure, and the lawsuit yielded an injunction halting the St. Louis wage increase before it took effect.
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The company has retained the law firm Gibson Dunn, which is currently suing the state of New York to block a wage increase for fast food employees.
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In February of this year, the Missouri Supreme Court unanimously voted to uphold the wage increase, but it was stalled again after opponents filed for a rehearing.
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It forecast profits in the second half would benefit from the annualisation of last year's staff wage increase and a normalization of marketing costs and weather comparatives.
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Also on Friday, Germany's biggest trade union, IG Metall, said it had agreed with employers on a two-stage wage increase of 4.8 percent over 21 months.
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I cannot imagine any of them releasing an estimate as far from the professional mainstream as $4000 to $9000 wage increase from a corporate rate cut claim.
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In fact, the Wall Street Journal op-ed page published two very optimistic versions of what the wage increase could be, which were below CEA's lower bound.
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It forecast profits in the second half would benefit from the annualisation of last year's staff wage increase and a normalisation of marketing costs and weather comparatives.
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We simulated the improvements to employee health that would follow from a $4 wage increase as compared to getting two-weeks of advance notice of work schedules.
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Given the low elasticity (responsiveness) of employment to the size of the minimum wage increase, economists have begun to explore other outcomes of raising the minimum wage.
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Congress should be more focused on economically beneficial legislation rather than pushing highly political issues such as minimum wage increase that could be economically detrimental to millions.
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National Restaurant Association and the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington opposed the wage increase, saying restaurants would lay off workers and raise prices to offset higher wages.
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Progressives won over some moderate Democrats with the promise of a Government Accountability Office study to measure the effects of the wage increase on businesses, Pocan said.
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President Trump and his fellow Republicans are suggesting this will amount to a $4,000 wage increase for regular Americans -- on account of the corporate tax rate cut.
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Another found that people thought that setting their own schedule was equivalent to a 9 percent wage increase, and that telecommuting was worth a 4 percent raise.
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PRAGUE, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Trade unions at Volkswagen's Czech carmaker Skoda Auto rejected the company's latest wage increase offer, the unions said in a statement on Wednesday.
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While that's the highest rate since July 2018, it's still below the average annual wage increase of 3.2% that the government reported in the last jobs report.
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"We find that a significant number of individuals who were previously in automatable employment are unemployed in the period following a minimum wage increase," the study says.
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Other measures announced in Maduro's speech to the nation last week included highly-subsidized gas prices, a higher corporate tax rate and a massive minimum wage increase.
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In November, when the authority announced its proposals to raise fares in 2017, officials said they had budgeted for a 2 percent annual wage increase for workers.
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Generally, the movement is focused on reallocation of wealth in the country, calling for more affordable living, a minimum wage increase, and increased taxes on the wealthy.
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Just look at this Los Angeles Times story from Thursday: Wells Fargo's press department proceeded from a press release saying the tax cuts were the reason for the wage increase, to a spokesman saying it wasn't about the tax cuts, to Wells Fargo walking back those claims and saying the spokesman had misspoken, and after all, the minimum wage increase was a direct result of the tax cuts.
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With the wage increase for doctors, "the government in a way announced that it will gradually improve wages also in the rest of the public sector," Strukelj said.
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Democrats have argued that Puzder will not advocate for workers, citing his statements opposing minimum wage increase, alleged wage violations at his restaurants and his promotion of automation.
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One union said hundreds more workers would join the strike on Sunday if an agreement over union demands for a wage increase and pension rights was not reached.
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Ontario's independent "financial-accountability officer", who reports to the Speaker of the legislature, warned in September that the wage increase could cause a net loss of 50,000 jobs.
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Trump clarified afterwards that he did not believe American wages were too high, but he did make crystal clear he was fundamentally opposed to a minimum wage increase.
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Employers have offered a 6.8 percent wage increase, but rejected the demand for shorter hours unless they can also have the flexibility to increase workers' hours when necessary.
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Economists also expect an average hourly wage increase of 0.3 percent and an unchanged unemployment rate at 3.8 percent, when the report is released at 8:30 a.m.
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Union Verdi is demanding a choice between a 6 percent wage increase or more time off for around 130,000 workers at postal and logistics group Deutsche Post (DPWGn.DE).
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Unlike a dramatic minimum wage increase, economic growth would benefit all American workers, rather than just the small percentage at the bottom who manage to keep their jobs.
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In Washington, progressives frustrated by a Republican-controlled state Senate have secured ballot spots for a proposed carbon emission tax, a minimum wage increase and stricter gun controls.
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It had already announced the wage increase to a range of $13.50 to $17 — likely to deal with both labor market pressures and its scandals — back in January.
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In addition, she said, the wage increase has helped attract more potential employees, some of whom earned $2 to $3 less per hour doing the same job elsewhere.
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Although the wage increase from Target was a huge win for Fight For 15's organizing efforts they're still engaged with other battles to ensure protections for workers.
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If the economy were to go into a recession, business would undoubtedly suffer, though the suffering could hardly be attributed solely or mainly to a minimum wage increase.
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Maduro said the government will provide assistance on the minimum wage increase for 90 days but employers are nervous they won't have enough money to pay their staff.
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Hundreds of thousands of workers in the state who earn the minimum wage will get larger paychecks starting next year, when the first wage increase goes into effect.
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Mr. Sanchez argues that the minimum wage increase will help address a widening wealth divide as well as provide low-income earners with the means to spend more.
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The city council in Washington is a good example: Dominated by Democrats, it overturned a wage increase for restaurant workers a mere four months after voters approved it.
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Workers at an Audi plant went on strike this year and won an 18 percent wage increase; employees at other companies have warned of more strikes to come.
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It also introduced a 10% wage increase for all health workers and a one-off payment to help pensioners, most of whom have been asked to stay indoors.
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The University of Washington researchers found that the minimum-wage increase resulted in higher wages, but also a significant reduction in the working hours of low-wage earners.
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Seen in that light, it seems safe to conclude that Seattle has tolerated its minimum wage increase well and that, by extension, other strong economies could do so.
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If a wage increase is substantially offset by rising labor productivity, costs per unit of output could remain stable, or of no particular consequence for corporate profit margins.
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The agreement was reached within a week over digital conferencing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, and it involves a wage increase of between 4.6% and 5%.
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FRANKFURT, June 23 (Reuters) - Germany's chemical industry trade union IG-BCE and employers agreed a wage increase of 5.3 percent on Thursday, to be carried out over two steps.
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In their analysis, they concluded that the minimum wage increase may have had a modest impact, leading to slightly fewer work hours and slightly lower employment in the city.
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The agreement, reached on Monday, proposes a cumulative 14 percent wage increase over a four-year period, three sources familiar with details of the negotiations told Reuters on Tuesday.
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AT FIRST glance, they seem unrelated: a fracking ban in Denton, Texas; a minimum-wage increase in St Louis, Missouri; and an anti-discrimination ordinance in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Trump clarified afterwards that he did not believe American wages were too high, but he did make crystal clear he was fundamentally opposed to a minimum wage increase. 2.
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Republicans are pleased with the immediate aftermath of their tax law, citing a long string of bonus and wage increase announcements as evidence that it's helping the middle class.
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Basically, if our economy stays relatively healthy (without, say, another recession), an incremental wage increase to $15 per hour might slow job creation, but it wouldn't cause job loss.
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The Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) and the United National Transport Union (UNTU) said their members had agreed to an 8 percent wage increase across the board.
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"There is a fundamental mismatch, because the tax break is temporary but a wage increase is close to permanent," said Takuya Hoshino, economist at Dai-Ichi Life Research Institute.
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Kaddour fears any outright wage increase for engineers might trigger wider protests after doctors and teachers went on strike for months this year demanding pay rises to match inflation.
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Also, Germany's biggest trade union, IG Metall, said it had agreed with employers on a two-stage wage increase of nearly 5 percent over a period of 21 months.
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Unlike other minimum wage workers, tipped workers haven't seen their federally mandated wage increase since 29.4 when it was increased by a meager 4 cents to $2.13 an hour.
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Unions had been calling for a salary hike of 5.1 percent in 2018 alone, and staff rejected a management pay deal offering 7 percent wage increase over four years.
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" And in May, as he addressed Naval Academy graduates at Annapolis, Mr. Trump wrongly characterized the wage increase as not just the largest, but the "first in 10 years.
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Over the last year, after adjusting for inflation, the average worker in America saw a wage increase of, are you ready for this, 4 cents an hour, or 250%.
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What we're hearing: "The minimum wage increase is not showing the detrimental effects people once would've predicted," Diane Swonk, chief economist at international accounting firm Grant Thornton, tells Axios.
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In February, Germany's federal states agreed with trade unions a two-stage wage increase of 4.35 percent for more than two million civil servants and other public sector employees.
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Verizon said last week it had presented an updated and "final" contract to the unions, including a wage increase of 7.5 percent over the term of a new contract.
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At a deeper level, by rejecting taxation but agreeing to a wage increase, Amazon seemed to imply that corporations, rather than the government, should dictate the terms of redistribution.
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The union did not say exactly how many employees joined the strike, which began at 1300 GMT after workers rejected management's offer last week of a 13.6 percent wage increase.
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As part of the proposed bills, the state House of Representatives hopes to delay a planned minimum wage increase and reduce the requirements on companies to provide paid sick leave.
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By the end of the month, a final agreement was made: All postal workers received an initial 21970 percent wage increase, followed by another 200 percent increase two months later.
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Whenever pressure for a minimum-wage increase built up for too long to ignore, conservatives suddenly became advocates for the EITC as a better way to achieve the same goal.
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Also on Friday, Germany's biggest trade union, IG Metall, said it agreed a two-stage wage increase of 4.8 percent over 21 months, which analysts said should further boost consumption.
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It's also an open question if American voters, most of whom haven't seen a real wage increase in three decades, care about the difference between $4 billion and $10 billion.
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The unions had been seeking a 234 percent annual wage increase over six years plus an increase in health insurance payments from 1.8 percent to 2 percent of straight pay.
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The company raised its minimum wage for hourly employees to $11 an hour in January, its third minimum wage increase since 2005, after benefiting from the corporate tax cut plan.
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Amid the current national outcry for a minimum wage increase, McDonald's has already started the transition to automation: Earlier this month, the company announced a rollout of self-service iPads.
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"Historically, when a McDonald's or a Wendy's or a Taco Bell encounters a minimum wage increase, a lot of that gets passed down to the customer in price," Tilly says.
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"The crucial fact is that an employment decline as a result of a minimum wage increase doesn't necessarily mean any worker is actually worse off," EPI analyst Heidi Shierholz said.
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And a disaster for the worker and Nafta is one of the reasons that, you know, there are people that haven't had a wage increase 18 years in real wages.
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But many others did, including bills to minimize the impact of a minimum wage increase, limit paid sick leave, restrict ballot initiatives, and curb the power of the incoming governor.
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According to the CBO, hiking the minimum wage to $28503 an hour would result in an average annual wage increase of $22019 for workers at or near the poverty line.
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But to Wells Fargo's credit, this wage increase is permanent, unlike the one-time $1,000 bonuses also being offered by some corporations in the wake of the tax bill's passage.
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Like the earlier walk-outs, Chicago teachers pushed for money to ease overcrowded classrooms and more support staff, in addition to seeking a wage increase for the district's 25,000 teachers.
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Fact Check of the Day President Trump tweeted that steelworkers were receiving a raise because of his policies, ignoring the role a looming strike played in securing the wage increase.
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In August, Cisneros pointed out that Cuellar had recently voted in favor of a $15 minimum wage, despite having never supported a minimum wage increase before she entered the race.
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Venkataramani told CNN while a minimum wage increase based on this study or others is unlikely, the subject needs to be discussed considering the growing burden of poor mental health.
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A Congressional Budget Office report from 22019, based on a review of 60 different minimum wage studies, showed that a federal minimum wage increase to $10.10 would kill 500,000 jobs.
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OSLO, April 1 (Reuters) - Norway's two largest private-sector labour unions have agreed a 3.2 percent wage increase with companies, averting a strike, the unions and employers said on Monday.
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Target said Tuesday, though, that it's seen a bigger pool of candidates applying for positions with the company since it announced a starting hourly wage increase to $11 in September.
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The union refused an initial offer of a 6.8-percent wage increase in favor of a reduction in work hours and a more modest increase in wages of 4.3 percent.
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By contrast, highly rated restaurants appear to be largely unaffected by minimum-wage increases, and over all, there is no substantial rise in restaurant closings after a minimum-wage increase.
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The more moderate version favored smaller versions of the minimum wage increase, family leave program and jobs program, and wanted to defend the Affordable Care Act in its current form.
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More specifically, the campaign plans to focus on the same issues that it's been pushing the past six months -- like infrastructure investments, pay equity, a minimum wage increase and gun control.
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Owners of an outsourcing company, a tech firm, and a call center were among those who said such a wage increase would lead them to relocate, cut jobs, or raise prices.
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The move was still met with criticism by some, including Amazon workers who noted that, along with the wage increase, the retail giant would also be removing bonuses and stock grants.
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Consumers would pay 4 percent more (an average of $21 per year) for fruit and vegetables at the store, if they were to entirely bear the burden of the wage increase.
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" Laura Ingraham tweeted: "Dems' 'Border security' pledge is MEANINGLESS... When does American working class w/out real wage increase in 15yrs & who send their kids to overcrowded public schools get amnesty?
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The union members on Monday rejected Harley's proposal for a five-year contract which included a 14 percent wage increase during the contract period as well as a $2,250 signing bonus.
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"We intend to advocate for a minimum wage increase that will have a profound impact on the lives of tens of millions of people and families across this country," he continued.
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Subsequent studies have shown the mandated wage increase actually hurt those whom it was supposed to help, as companies cut back the number of hours worked, thus reducing take-home pay.
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McDonald's stopped working with the National Restaurant Association to lobby against the wage hike in March, and the company came out in support of introducing the wage increase in all industries.
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That explains why the average real wage increase for non-supervisory workers over the past decade (plus 21997 percent), exceeded that for the total worker pool (plus 27.6 percent), including managers.
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Cintron received a wage increase in 2010, though he alleges that it was because he was induced to surrender his health benefits, which were of higher value than the raise itself.
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The unions had initially demanded a pay hike of 2150 percent for the next 0003 months while public sector employers had offered a wage increase of 2000 percent over two years.
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Regardless of the magnitude of job cuts caused by a minimum-wage increase, all the workers who lost jobs as a result would be ineligible for the earned-income tax credit.
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Walmart is America's largest private employer, with more than 1.5 million sales associates in the U.S. Hourly wage increase, bonuses, and expanded family leave policies are undoubtedly a boon to workers.
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That explains why the average real wage increase for non-supervisory workers over the past decade (plus 0.8 percent), exceeded that for the total worker pool (plus 0.6 percent), including managers.
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SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS SAYS UNIONS AGREE TO A WAGE INCREASE OF 5.9% RETROSPECTIVE TO 1 APRIL 2019, WHICH WILL BE PAID IN THE FEBRUARY 2020 PAYROLL, SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY OF FUNDING
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Instead, the year-over-year real average annual wage increase of 1.6% is far below the rates of 4% and more marked month after month just prior to the Great Recession.
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As recently as three years ago, Democrats led by President Barack Obama had settled on pushing a national minimum wage increase to $153, up from $7.25, which was set in 2009.
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Mexico's government in December agreed to raise the daily minimum wage by 20%, the biggest wage increase in more than four decades and the second major increase in as many years.
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She also negotiated bipartisan agreements, including a minimum wage increase with a cost-of-living adjustment to $9.25 an hour in 2018 and expanded health care to 630,000 additional working individuals.
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Greene King has been battling rising costs from a minimum wage increase, higher property prices, a Brexit-spurred slide in sterling and a move away from pub drinking by younger Britons.
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The highly progressive version of Scott Miller proposed a large minimum wage increase, generous paid family leave, a huge jobs program and the expansion of Medicare to cover all uninsured Americans.
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In a 2017 survey of its members by a small-business organization known as Kbiz, 42 percent said they would be forced to shed employees because of the minimum wage increase.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek seamen on Tuesday called off a strike that had kept ferries and passengers stranded in ports around the country, after reaching a deal with employers on a wage increase.
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He announced a minimum wage increase of 100 euros and tax cuts on overtime and for low-income pensioners, but nonetheless refused to reinstate the wealth tax, one of the movement's demands.
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A federally mandated minimum-wage increase seems like a long-shot with the GOP-held Senate, so a collection of states are stepping up to help spearhead the "Fight for $15" movement.
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Amazon will further raise a planned wage increase for some workers, and will offer bonuses as a replacement for previous compensation plans, after controversy over changes to employee payment, according to Bloomberg.
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Germany's IG Metall union demanded a 6 percent wage increase for the 72,08553 employees in the steel industry in the northwest of the country, possibly setting a benchmark for millions of workers.
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For its part, Verizon, which had offered a 7.5 percent wage increase, argued that it wanted to preserve good jobs while also keeping costs in check, particularly related to health care coverage.
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These findings sharply diverge from what has been previously reported—only last week, a study by researchers at Berkeley found that Seattle's minimum wage increase had only a negligible impact on jobs.
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The 2229-year old group did, however, forecast that second half profits would benefit from the annualisation of last year's staff wage increase and a normalisation of marketing costs and weather comparatives.
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And … what we've learned in my state is that we have blown up the myth that if you actually focus on job creation and wage increase, that it somehow hurts your economy.
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Dave Clark, Amazon's senior vice president in charge of operations, shared a video of breaking the news of the wage increase early Tuesday to hundreds of employees at a warehouse in California.
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The ILRF urged H&M to publish a road map with time-bound, measurable wage increase targets and outline how they will change purchasing practices to ensure workers get a living wage.
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"I fear that Walmart's plan is more about delaying an actual wage increase than providing real training," said Stephanie Luce, a professor of labor studies at the City University of New York.
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Proponents argue it gives lawmakers in rural areas a way to explain to their constituents that it offers Congress a chance to mitigate any negative side effects of a minimum wage increase.
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The company on Thursday said it was now offering a wage increase of 7.5 percent over the term of a new contract, up from its previous offer of a 6.5 percent raise.
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Air France said its latest pay offer of a 7 percent wage increase over 4 years had not received the majority of signatures required by 1200 local Paris time on April 20.
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Agency officials had proposed a 10.4 percent wage increase over seven and a half years and employee health care contributions of between 10 percent and 20 percent of the cost of premiums.
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Janaillac had offered a 7% wage increase to employees over the next four years as a last-ditch effort to remain in his position, but it was voted down, forcing his departure.
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Details: Cintron claims that he did not receive a "meaningful raise" in 10 years and that when he received a wage increase in 2010, he had to give up his health benefits.
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In an address Friday, Maduro said the government will provide assistance on the minimum wage increase for 90 days but employers are nervous they won't have enough money to pay their staff.
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Critics, including Spain's center-right Popular Party, which carried out harsh austerity policies to help mend the nation's finances during the financial crisis, blast the wage increase as a menace to jobs.
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And if an industry that's so reliant on minimum wage workers wasn't hurt by a minimum wage increase, how could the city as a whole have been hurt by higher minimum wages?
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After the threat, the union reached a new deal and ratified a contract on Tuesday with U.S. Steel that included a 14 percent wage increase over four years and preserved health benefits.
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As a result, the control may not be much of a control at all: It does not illustrate what would happen absent a minimum-wage increase in a booming city like Seattle.
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That will provide workers at the bottom of the income ladder with a combined wage increase of more than $5 billion next year, according to figures compiled by the Economic Policy Institute.
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Parties representing 99 percent of the seats in Dutch parliament condemned the proposed wage increase, which has quickly became a major issue ahead of municipal elections in the Netherlands on March 21.
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Like the earlier walk-outs, Chicago teachers had pushed for more money to ease overcrowded classrooms and more support staff, in addition to seeking a wage increase for the district's 25,000 teachers.
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He said the airline had offered pilots a 3% wage increase in line with other employee groups, but they were seeking the equivalent of a 15% pay rise in the first year.
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"The minimum wage increase will have significant impact on much of the economy and many of the stocks that we own," said Garth Nisbet, a portfolio manager at Wells Fargo Asset Management.
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It has to be a lot easier to bargain for wage increase in a world where you don't have to spend as much time and energy fighting for those extra dollars on health.
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In February, Germany's 16 federal states agreed with trade unions a two-stage wage increase of 4.35 percent over two years for more than two million civil servants and other public sector employees.
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In Seattle, for example, research shows that minimum wage increase has had little impact on job growth so far — something labor advocates point to as evidence that such laws don't hurt the economy.
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Amazon disclosed in its announcement on Tuesday that it is replacing the stock awards program with the minimum-wage increase because employees prefer the "predictability and immediacy of cash" compared with stock awards.
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Mr. Cuomo's team touts his progressive record, which includes approving a minimum-wage increase, paid family leave and some of the tightest gun-control measures in the nation, despite a Republican State Senate.
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Workers accepted a proposal made by the National Banking Federation (Febraban) of an annual wage increase of 8 percent, implying an inflation-adjusted gain of 1 percent, a statement from the union said.
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This comprehensive paid family leave program, coupled with the newly passed earned sick leave and minimum wage increase, are fundamental elements in building a stronger and fairer New Jersey for all working families.
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A more recent literature review published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which included the latest and greatest research, still finds clear negative impacts on employment following a minimum wage increase.
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However, this wage increase would have been offset by tax payments, which those now-authorized workers, no longer being paid off the books, would have had to make to the United States Treasury.
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Unlike the individual tax cuts that are set to expire in less than a decade and one-time bonuses, a wage increase is more money in the worker's pocket that's not going away.
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When the CBO says a $10.10-an-hour minimum wage would cost about 500,000 jobs, it means relative to how many jobs there would have been had there been no minimum wage increase.
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As part of the wage increase, Amazon ended the bonus and stock grants it had been giving workers, which analysts estimated would offset some of the costs, as would increased efficiencies using robotics.
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It also allowed them to measure a change in hours worked, a potentially more complete indication of the effect of a minimum-wage increase than the employee head count that many studies use.
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However, if state legislatures act proactively, they can avoid this intervention by creating incentives for hiring and establishing an incremental minimum wage increase over a ten-year period versus a drastic, immediate one.
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With the Republican Congress standing firm against a minimum wage increase and other economic proposals from Democrats, the president has exerted the power of the executive branch to try and burnish his legacy.
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The minimum wage increase will not apply for now to human service agencies funded by the state, Wolf said, because they are already "stressed" by delayed funding caused by the budget stand-off.
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" Last week, Bradley wrote a letter to House members saying the organization — the largest business group in the world — would work with Congress on "a minimum wage increase that would benefit employees and employers.
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Mr Garcetti's biggest achievements from his four years in Los Angeles's splendid Art Deco City Hall—including a minimum-wage increase and cuts to business tax—are all tributes to his powers of persuasion.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi suggested on Monday that Egypt's civil servants may not get a wage increase this year as the government needs money to build new classrooms in overcrowded schools.
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And while that may not sound like much, the deal-making between businesses and labor tends to "forecast past the 12 month inflation rate, to settle the wage increase or pay rise," Kuroda explained.
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"The restaurant industry moans and groans about minimum wage increase, but the Seattle newspaper every month has a story about 40 new restaurants opening," said Jennifer Romich, a University of Washington social policy researcher.
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More recently, researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University, in partnership with the Restaurant Opportunities Center, studied the impact of New York's minimum wage increase for tipped workers in 244, the year it went into effect.
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Cutting costs at the same time as raising wages will be difficult, Lohscheller said in the Opel Post report, adding that management asked IG Metall to suspend a collective wage increase during the negotiations.
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The in-house pay dispute at VW coincides with IG Metall's efforts across Germany to push for a 6-percent wage increase for about 3.9 million workers in the country's metal and engineering industry.
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Twenty-nine states and a slew of cities have minimum wages above the federal minimum, so in those locations, which tend to be Democratic strongholds, a federal minimum wage increase would have little effect.
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Advocating a destructive trade agenda could negate what could be achieved through tax reform by decreasing the anticipated economic growth and eating away the impact of the wage increase by increasing costs for consumers.
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Electricity, gas, water and waste services and health care and social assistance enjoyed the highest quarterly pay rises of 0.7% while in the information media and telecommunications the wage increase was a piddly 0.1%.
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Congressional economists said a federal hike would cut 1 million jobs, for instance, and some New York businesses recently told The Wall Street Journal that they struggled to keep up after the wage increase.
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"We intend to advocate for a minimum wage increase that will have a profound impact on the lives of tens of millions of people and families across this country," he said in the statement.
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The Berkeley study's co-authors also pointed to criticisms of the 2017 report that said researchers did not effectively disentangle the effects of Seattle's booming economy from that of the city's minimum wage increase.
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Is a $323 wage increase and a one-time bonus of $85033,000 that represents a fraction of estimated potential company tax savings worth the more than $1 trillion in additional debt placed on Americans?
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Notably, small business owners in states with minimum wage increases are only slightly more likely than those in other states to say their business will be affected by a minimum wage increase in 2020.
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A wage increase would allow him to spend more time with his family and provide them with the "simple" pleasures of visiting the zoo, buying new bikes and new shoes for the school year.
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A study done in July by the Congressional Budget Office projected that a wage increase to $15 an hour would result in a loss of 1.3 million workers, or 0.8 percent of the workforce.
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Finally, the two sides agreed to a wage increase in exchange for what Mr. Haicken called "minor changes," such as a decrease in how often an employee can transfer from one job to another.
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More recently, researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University, in partnership with the Restaurant Opportunities Center, studied the impact of New York's minimum wage increase for tipped workers in 3633, the year it went into effect.
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Pence's record on labor issues — from defending Indiana's right-to-work law to voting against the 2007 minimum-wage increase in Congress — could be a drag in a state where union membership is high.
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Some of those were recycled news, and regardless, while a $1,000 one-time payout is a nice boost, it is not a sustained benefit to workers in the same way a wage increase is.
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More recently, researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University, in partnership with the Restaurant Opportunities Center, studied the impact of New York's minimum wage increase for tipped workers in 242.9, the year it went into effect.
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The company announced an average monthly base wage increase of 1,300 yen ($11.32) for the financial year beginning in April, 0003 percent lower than the previous year's rise and less than half the union's demand.
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U.S. workers saw their largest year-on-year wage increase in a decade, but it was still too small — and inflation too high — to signal a clear break from the long period of income stagnation.
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Stephen Madarasz, the director of communications for the labor union Civil Service Employees Association, called the wage increase "very welcome," adding that it would likely cover many temporary or trainee positions in the school system.
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Labour said on Saturday it would give support to small and medium sized businesses to help them fund the wage increase, by making savings on the benefits that are paid to people already in work.
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Around 72,000 steel workers in northwestern Germany will get 2.3 percent more pay from April and then a further wage increase of 1.7 percent from May 1, 2018 employers' group Arbeitgeberverband Stahl said on Friday.
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On Monday, researchers at the University of Washington released a much-anticipated study that looked at the effects of the first stages of Seattle's $15 minimum wage increase, which has been phasing in since 2015.
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Clinton becomes president, it seems likely that first on her agenda will be pushing for national paid family leave, a minimum-wage increase and more government spending on things like infrastructure projects to create jobs.
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Last summer, home care workers won a 48-cent-an-hour wage increase from the state, up from an average wage of $13, in a budget that the legislature passed by overriding the governor's veto.
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The wage increase agreed on Friday - which will give state workers from bureaucrats to cleaners a fixed monthly pay increase of 1,500 crowns ($64) - should raise 2020 budget spending by 13 billion crowns ($223 million).
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Here&aposs every minimum wage increase, including its value in today&aposs dollars, the cost of a new home in the given year, and the cost of a gallon of gas in the given year.
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The flag carrier's unions have called for action on Tuesday and on April 7 and plan further walkouts on April 10 and 11, over demands for a 6 percent wage increase that management has rejected.
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News Analysis On Thursday, a weeklong walkout by teachers in Arizona resulted in a major victory, as the state's governor approved a 10 to 20 percent wage increase and a significant investment in public schools.
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The latest wage increase, which starts next year, will give state workers from bureaucrats to drivers pay increases ranging from 15 to 20 percent along with other substantial rises to army pensioners and civil servants.
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And some analysts say it is a reason for officials to slow their pace of rate increases, since the benefits of a hot economy have not yet translated into a significant wage increase for workers.
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Moreover, when the bank reannounced its wage hike in December, a spokesperson initially told the LA Times the wage increase was not tied to the tax bill, only to later backtrack and say it was.
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Most Americans have not received a real wage increase in decades, one-third of working-age people are not part of the labor force at all, and the education system seems divorced from the future economy.
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The aviation industry's employer body in Sweden said pilots held onto their "extreme wage claims", demanding a 13 percent wage increase despite what it calls already high average wages of 93,000 Swedish crowns ($9,759.89) a month.
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The aviation industry's employer body in Sweden said pilots held onto their "extreme wage claims", demanding a 13 percent wage increase despite what it called already high average wages of 93,000 Swedish crowns ($9,759.89) a month.
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Cuomo, who leads Nixon among Democratic voters in a recent poll (66% to 2003%), has addressed progressive interests in the past couple of years by passing a minimum wage increase and the paid family leave law.
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Many of these legislative changes had a deep and disproportionate effect on small business, while campaign war chests for Initiative 1433, the Washington Minimum Wage Increase, had a different effect, receiving nearly $4.4 million in 2016.
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Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour, which would be the first minimum wage increase in a decade.
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Business groups in Washington and Arizona have gone to court to block the November ballot initiatives, and lawmakers in Maine have introduced a number of bills that seek to roll back or weaken the wage increase.
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CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of textile workers in India's Tamil Nadu state have launched protests to demand that the first minimum wage increase in the southern state in more than 12 years is enforced.
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In San Francisco, which passed a $15 minimum wage last year, trendy restaurants like Abbot's Cellar, Source, Luna Park, and Roosevelt Tamale Parlor have closed their doors, citing the minimum wage increase as a determining factor.
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The two candidates took opposite tacks on a number of issues, with Mr. Murphy supporting abortion rights, a minimum-wage increase, the Affordable Care Act and an end to the United States' economic embargo on Cuba.
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The shift followed complaints by labor groups that Wal-Mart had to do more for workers, despite the company's $2.7 billion investment in employee training and wages in 103 and the 2016 wage increase to $10.
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And in Missouri, if the legislature passes a new ban on local raises, advocates have already filed paperwork to put a statewide wage increase on the 153 ballot where it is all but certain to pass.
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Large stacks of academic papers have shown that, for the average worker, a minimum-wage increase does more good in raising pay than it hurts by prompting some employers to cut back on hiring or hours.
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The workers who worked less in the months before the minimum-wage increase saw almost no improvement in overall pay — $4 a month on average over the same period, although the result was not statistically significant.
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The Guggenheim did not respond to that assertion but it said that the workers contemplating creating a bargaining unit had, along with other museum staff, received a 2 percent wage increase in May, retroactive to March.
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Despite the appearance of progress, it's important to keep in mind that Bangladesh's wage increase was "also against an inflation of 22016 percent a year, and the last revision was five years before that," he says.
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To counter the effects of the outbreak, the Serbian government introduced a 10% wage increase for all health workers and a one-off payment to help pensioners, most of whom have been asked to stay indoors.
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"I do not want to say that the minimum wage increase will result in higher prices, but we are thinking how to introduce new, nicer, better products and adjust prices to them," Przemyslaw Lutkiewicz told Reuters.
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Earlier this month, the IMF said that a wage increase for public sector workers was justified, but warned that the overall wage bill is growing faster than nominal GDP for a second year in a row.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The board that oversees major airports in New York and New Jersey voted on Thursday to consider phasing in a minimum wage increase to $133 per hour by 2023, affecting about 20,000 workers.
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Story at a glance The hotly-anticipated minimum wage increase will take effect in 2346, and it is already impacting a total of 2000 states and 212 cities, according to a National Employment Law Project report.
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Similarly, the study blames the minimum wage increase for a decline in low-wage work in Seattle, when a likely cause is the city's strong economy in which competition, not the minimum wage, bids up pay.
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The spending plan includes a value-added tax increase from 21.94% to 22.3% and a minimum monthly wage increase to 30,000 naira ($98) from 18,000 to implement a change that was signed into law in April.
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The other, used by UC Irvine's David Neumark and the Fed Board of Governors' William Wascher, tracked employment in full states over time, to see if employment fell in the wake of a minimum wage increase.
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Tens of thousands of teachers went on strike in October in Chicago to demand more money to ease overcrowded classrooms and more support staff, in addition to seeking a wage increase for the district's 25,33 teachers.
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Union representatives from Force Ouvrière and the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail told Agence France-Presse that the workers were staging the protest after a wage increase offer from Louis Vuitton management failed to meet expectations.
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TOKYO, March 15 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp is set to agree a monthly base wage increase of 1,500 yen ($13.22), or half of the 3,000 yen amount that labour unions had demanded, Jiji News reported on Tuesday.
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A $15 minimum wage in California will affect the incomes of more than one in three of the state's workers, said Paul Sonn, program director at the National Employment Law Project, which has advocated a wage increase.
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The 4.3 percent wage increase now agreed for a 27-month period mirrors a deal that IG Metall won for around 3.9 million industrial employees in Germany this month after rolling 24-hour strikes across the country.
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"Unfortunately, the latest proposal by Cerro Colorado only considered a real (wage) increase of 1 percent, which we consider to be a mockery of the workers, whose efforts are the lifeline of the company's profits," said Parra.
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"I think if nothing else, people can see that in the House we're able to pass the minimum wage [increase]," Virginia Congressman Bobby Scott, the bill's chief sponsor in the House, said during a Monday press call.
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He appeared to disavow two positions that appeal to free-market conservatives like the speaker — opposition to a minimum-wage increase and support for cutting the top rate of income tax paid by the most affluent Americans.
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In fact, some people — including those from the Economic Policy Institute — have posited that a minimum wage increase will actually lead to an increase in employment because of the effects of giving low-wage workers a raise.
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Fedecamaras, the country's main business group, slammed Maduro's economic package as incoherent, and said that a significant minimum wage increase that is part of the plan would make it impossible for businesses to keep their doors open.
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If the comparison city, known as a control, did not experience a loss in hours worked similar to Seattle's, this would suggest that the minimum-wage increase was to blame for the reduction of hours in Seattle.
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If he cannot get it adopted he might struggle to stay in power, but if there were to be snap elections, he would be able to go to voters with measures such as the minimum wage increase.
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Vasas, the biggest trade union at the plant and in the Hungarian automotive industry, wants a 15 percent wage increase for 2017 and rejected a wage deal reached by the company with a smaller union, Balogh said.
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DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - A pay dispute in Germany's steel sector intensified on Monday as the IG Metall union rejected an offer for a wage increase of 2000 percent and called for labor strikes in northwest Germany on Tuesday.
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Inflation is forecast to be low at -0.1% in 2016 due to lower oil prices, picking up to 1.8% in 2017 as the falling oil prices drops out of the equation and the wage increase at end-2016.
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Voters and unions that backed the minimum wage increase meant to benefit workers in retail or coffee shops — not full-service restaurants, which are now paying the price of legislation that wasn't tailored to their industry, Barron said.
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Why it's happening: The federal government hasn't raised the minimum wage since 2009 from $7.25, which is putting pressure on states to do it themselves, and 27 states have had an effective minimum wage increase since January 2014.
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What they studied: Lordan and Neumark relied on census data from 1980 to 2015 to define the impact of a minimum wage increase on what they call "automatable" jobs — lower-skilled employment involving more or less rote tasks.
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The trade union has demanded a 12 percent wage increase in the first year of a new contract, while the company has offered 5.2 percent as well as a bonus to each employee and health and education benefits.
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The company, like most restaurant chains in the country, has been battling high costs due to a minimum wage increase, higher property prices and power bills as well as a move away from pub drinking by younger Britons.
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"An employment decline as a result of a minimum wage increase doesn't necessarily mean any worker is actually worse off," Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, said in a statement (italics are hers).
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Conservative-penned columns in the Wall Street Journal, the Republican Party's Twitter account, libertarian Reason magazine, and a Politico newsletter presented by the anti-wage increase National Restaurant Association all highlighted the job-loss numbers, for obvious reasons.
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Companies thus far seem to have taken much of the windfall and pushed it to stock repurchases and dividends, with the evidence so far unclear as to whether there will be an accompanying investment boom and wage increase.
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In a series of tweets, Ocasio-Cortez called McCaskill's rhetoric "pretty disappointing" and pointed out that progressive initiatives including a minimum wage increase won on the ballot in Missouri in November while McCaskill, a more conservative Democrat, lost.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Airlines (SAA) said on Thursday it would offer unions a revised wage increase in a bid to avert a strike that has forced the airline to cancel domestic and international flights scheduled for Friday.
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That is a nice improvement from the measly 21625 percent real wage increase recorded the previous year but hardly the kind of number that would make workers feel that their paychecks are truly expanding after all these years.
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Biden also touted measures to raise the minimum wage, increase the number of employees who qualify for overtime pay, and raise the child-care tax credit in a speech that focused on economic growth in the middle class.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg posted a Mother's Day appeal on Sunday for federal and corporate policies to benefit working parents, including a minimum wage increase, mandated paid parental leave and affordable childcare.
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Mr. Cuomo has remained a polarizing figure, particularly among Democratic activists, even as he has increasingly shifted leftward in recent years, enacting a minimum-wage increase, paid family leave and free college tuition scholarships for middle-class families.
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For example, the researchers' "synthetic Seattle" statistical model, used as a baseline to suggest what might have happened in Seattle without the wage increase, excludes 45 percent of the relevant job market, according to critics of the study.
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It will ask for a 7.4 percent wage increase for temporary workers versus a 5.3 percent wage raise for regular workers, Ha said, in line with a policy advocated by the umbrella union for South Korea's metal workers.
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BUDAPEST, March 12 (Reuters) - Workers at South Korea's Hankook Tire plant in Hungary went on strike on Tuesday, demanding an 18 percent wage increase, the VDSZ trade union said, as a labour shortage puts pressure on the car industry.
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The Minneapolis-based company is also implementing the wage increase on the heels of a measure approved by the Minneapolis City Council in June that will require large companies to pay workers least at $20163 an hour by 2022.
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The economists and policy advisers under the Obama administration who supported the Cadillac tax argued that by encouraging companies to scale back insurance benefits, businesses would in turn give employees a wage increase (there's some evidence that could happen).
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The wage increase announcement helps to position Bezos as the sympathetic billionaire, and the antitrust probes may not seem as urgent to critics if the second largest employer in the country appears to prioritize its employees' conditions and wages.
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These are the 16 jobs providing the most powerful combination of base pay and wage growth: Median base pay: $51,577 Wage increase, YOY: $1,356Wage growth, YOY: 2.7 percent Don't miss: The 25 hottest companies in America, according to LinkedIn
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DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - German trade union IG Metall on Tuesday demanded a 13 percent wage increase for the 72,000 employees in the steel industry in the northwest of the country, firing the opening shot in next year's wage negotiations.
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The net effect is best understood from CBO's finding that 28503 million workers would receive a wage increase and the number of people living in poverty would fall by 22019 million, about half of whom are children under 18.
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The House will vote on the first federal minimum wage increase in over a decade this July, The Hill has confirmed The legislation to be considered is the Raise the Wage Act backed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC).
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Last week, tens of thousands of Belgian workers marched through Brussels on the second anniversary of the center-right government in protest against what workers' see as plans to extend the working week and abandon a scheduled wage increase.
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Nineteen states and the District of Columbia will boost the statutory minimum wage effective in January, giving those workers a combined wage increase of more than $5 billion next year, according to figures compiled by the Economic Policy Institute.
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For comparison, consider the fact that Cuomo failed to follow through on a pledge last year to back a minimum wage increase for incarcerated workers employed by Corcraft who were then making an average of 93 cents an hour.
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FAWU members are seeking a 10 percent wage increase, versus the 5 percent annual rise the union says employers are offering, as well as pension benefits for both full-time and seasonal workers among a host of other demands.
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France's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, warned that the company might "disappear" if unions persisted in their demands for an immediate 5 percent wage increase and continued rolling strikes that have already affected tens of thousands of fliers worldwide.
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Because the study found that low-wage workers lost income as a result of the increase, it was a much more dire assessment of the effects of a minimum-wage increase than even the more pessimistic studies to date.
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Because the study found that low-wage workers lost income as a result of the increase, it was a much more dire assessment of the effects of a minimum-wage increase than even the more pessimistic studies to date.
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But a softer-than-expected wage increase, just 0.1 percent, is tamping down some fears of inflation that flared up after last month's surprise wage gains kicked off a jump in interest rates and sent stocks into a correction.
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Was it the nonfarm payrolls report that indicated the wage increase, the Fed meeting with the hawkish message, or should be go way back and look at the foundation of the bear market that turned bull in March 2009?
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Mr. Horton concluded that when forced to pay more in wages, many employers were hiring more productive workers, so that the overall amount they spent on each job changed far less than the minimum-wage increase would have suggested.
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Seattle's minimum wage increase to $13 per hour — part of the city's path to a $15 pay floor — reduced hours worked in low-wage jobs by 6% to 7%, according to a May 2018 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper.
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The wage increase came on the heels of a long-running grassroots campaign from workers and labor advocates alike for better wages from one of the most powerful companies in the world, which is run by the wealthiest man in history.
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But one of the dangers of taking the wage increase at face value for Asian Americans is that it perpetuates the "model minority" myth — that Asians, unlike other people of color, are uniquely primed to climb up the socioeconomic ladder.
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To reach the former 40 cent raise, an employee would have had to make $20 an hour, she said; yet even after Wal-Mart's wage increase, the average hourly full-time wage for one of the company's workers is $13.38.
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IG Metall had demanded a 6 percent wage increase for workers at VW's facilities in western Germany, a bump in pensions and more hiring of apprentices to help cope with an industry shift to electric vehicles and self-driving technology.
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Mr. Obama has tried to tackle the problem through the Affordable Care Act and middle-class tax cuts among other measures, his advisers said, but Congress has balked at others, including a minimum-wage increase and a new infrastructure plan.
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On Election Day, Colorado voters face two ballot measures – one for a state-run healthcare system and one for a dramatic minimum wage increase -- these could transform Colorado from one nation's most business-friendly states to one of the least friendly.
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In New York State, longtime eateries like Del Rio Diner and Bob and Ron's Fish Fry that have survived generations have recently gone out of business with the owners citing the state's dramatic minimum wage increase as the death knell.
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As the federal push for a $15 minimum wage gains momentum, local examples offer insight into how a hefty wage increase might work and whether concerns that higher pay could lead to job or income losses for vulnerable workers are justified.
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JOHANNESBURG, Nov 14 (Reuters) - South African Airlines (SAA) said on Thursday it would offer unions a revised wage increase in a bid to avert a strike that has forced the airline to cancel domestic and international flights scheduled for Friday.
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Clinton sought to tap into frustrations among Latinos over Mr. Trump's anti-immigration talk and a favorable ballot that included a minimum-wage increase and Mr. Arpaio's bid for a seventh term as sheriff of Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix.
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This has been her position all along, and yet on Thursday night she said she would sign $15 minimum wage legislation as president, as if Congress would send a Democratic president a larger minimum wage increase than she was seeking.
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"I think there will be some (savings) that will go to wage increase, and some that may go to investment, but I think a lot of it is going to go frankly to corporate share buybacks or dividends," Pritzker told CNBC.
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The new work rules introduced by the railroad include a 2 percent wage increase and removal of a clause that requires CN to consult with the union before making "material changes" such as terminal closures and mandatory relocations, according to Teamsters.
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The removal of employee share and incentive schemes could cost thousands of workers 1,500 pounds in a single year, according to the GMB union, which accused the online retailer of imposing "a stealth tax on its own wage increase." bit.
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For example, recent data from the Seattle minimum wage increase—the ordinance quoted Thomas Piketty and his work on the need to address income inequality—shows that the policy actually resulted in less take-home pay for low wage earners.
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The percentage of business owners who say they may be forced to cut workers or reduce hours are the same regardless of whether a small business owner is based in a state with or without a 2020 minimum wage increase.
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Meer and West argued that focusing on employment levels, rather than rates, produced much of the disagreement in the literature up to that point, because it made estimates sensitive to what trends in employment existed before the minimum wage increase.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Some Venezuelans on Friday began to receive their first salary payment since the government introduced a 60-fold minimum wage increase, though companies warned it was unaffordable and would add to the devastation of business in the country.
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Percolating inflation in the form of the wage increase reported two Fridays ago coupled with rising price pressures as reported in the consumer price index Wednesday feed a very fundamental fear that the low rates behind bull market are fading away.
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Modeling a number of factors including the potential increase in carrier costs, rising labor expenses as a result of Amazon's minimum wage increase and moderating shipping volume, Ju cut his 212 pro forma earnings per share estimate by nearly 19 percent to $34.99.
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Despite workers saying they would part with earnings to hold meaningful jobs, a big indicator of whether a person was engaged and finding purpose in their work had to do with the last time they got a wage increase or new title.
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I'm supportive of efforts to increase the earned income tax credit, which would give a wage increase for folks who now are having a tougher time getting 503-hour weeks and making sure ... So I think there are two parts to it.
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In a response to the letter provided to The Verge, Jay Carney, Amazon's Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Affairs, said employees "prefer the predictability and immediacy of cash," and that the wage increase "more than compensates" for other forms of pay.
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In a study published in 2014, University of Massachusetts sociologist Michelle Budig found that women typically experienced a 4 percent decrease in wages for every child they've mothered; men, on the other hand, saw a 6 percent wage increase after becoming fathers.
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" Democrats, many of whom want to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour, have been discouraged by Trump's pick of fast food executive Andrew Puzder to lead the Department of Labor, in part because he opposes a minimum wage increase. "Mr.
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The wage increase at the United States' largest bank will be from a current floor of $10.15 an hour to a range of $12 to $16.50 an hour, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon wrote in an op-ed article in the New York Times.
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A group of researchers at the University of Washington, with support from philanthropic groups, have been examining the effects of the wage increase on workers' hours and take-home pay as well as business closures and the price of some goods like groceries.
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Those who were already working more hours before the wage increase saw "essentially all of the earnings increases," while the workers who had fewer hours saw their hours go down, but wages go up enough so that their overall earnings didn't really change.
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The data did show, Zipperer argued, that all of the workers they studied were "better off after the minimum wage increase" — higher-hour workers earned more with a higher wage while the low-hour workers got the same pay for less work.
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Air France's pay offer of a 7 percent wage increase over 4 years has not received majority backing from the unions, and the airline's chairman Jean-Marc Janaillac has said it would be hard for him to stay if the pay talks failed.
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And the centrists won some concessions as well, with the adoption of one amendment requiring a study of the economic impact as the wage increase is gradually phased in, and another extending the transition to $15 from five years to six years.
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POTSDAM (Reuters) - The German government and unions have agreed on a two-stage wage increase of 237 percent over this year and next for more than 2000 million public sector employees at the federal and municipal level, the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
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Germany's federal states last year agreed with trade unions a two-stage wage increase of 2.0 percent for 2017 and 2.35 percent from January 2018 - a result which fell well short of their initial demand of a yearly pay hike of 6 percent.
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On the back of this week's Oxfam report that stated the world's 62 richest people have as much money as the poorest 3.5 billion, Jennings criticized JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon, "the Wall Street king," for paying himself a 35 percent wage increase.
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Instead of an across-the-board wage increase, her group has called on state leaders to focus their efforts on developing a trained work force for fields that involve science, technology, engineering and math, where the demand for better-paying jobs is strong.
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They saw a significant increase in their wages and only a small percentage decrease in their hours, leading to a healthy bump in overall pay — an average of $84 a month for the nine months that followed the 2016 minimum-wage increase.
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Mr. Vigdor said the real contribution of the latest paper might be to force policymakers to consider who benefits from a minimum-wage increase and who doesn't, and whether that allocation of benefits is consistent with what a government is trying to accomplish.
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In Michigan, Republicans this week were contemplating limits on incoming Democrats, and the outgoing governor, Rick Snyder, on Friday signed bills scaling back a minimum-wage increase and a paid-sick-leave measure that had been slated for statewide votes until Republicans intervened.
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Some came to see a fare raise as the only viable path toward a wage increase for transit workers and in a prominent move, Michael J. Quill, the leader of the Transport Workers Union, split with other labor groups and supported an increase.
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The risk of a wage increase is that it will be set too far above the hourly rate that employers can afford to pay their employees, forcing them to lay off workers if they can't offset that cost in some other way.
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BUDAPEST, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Audi workers in Hungary reached a deal on a wage increase on Wednesday, ending a strike that has paralysed the carmaker's plant in Gyor, western Hungary, since last Thursday, the AHFSZ trade union said on its Facebook page.
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An OWE of negative 153, for instance, is a "break-even" number: If wages for, say, fast food workers rise 10 percent following a minimum wage increase, then an OWE of -1 suggests odds of employment would fall 10 percent in turn.
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The union has also balked at Lufthansa's demand that the pay rise from July 2019 onward be made conditional on the group's profitability, and that workers at airline catering firm LSG get only a one-time payment rather than a wage increase.
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"You know, we've already given the middle class, with an income of $75,000, you got about a $2,000 tax hike, and you're going to get a wage increase," Council of Economic Advisers chairman Kevin Hassett said Tuesday in a call with reporters.
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"The MPC already made clear in its November statement that members do not consider a minimum wage increase, on its own, to be inflationary, given the current underperformance of the economy, and subdued demand," said Razia Khan, chief Africa economist at Standard Chartered.
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Their plan to cut corporate taxes by about $200 billion annually is meant to yield a total wage increase of $550 billion to $1.1 trillion each year, if you multiply their assumed wage gains by the number of households in the economy.
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Abe has urged companies to raise wages 3 percent in this coming spring's annual wage talks, where companies and unions negotiate a wage increase for employees, but a recent Reuters poll shows that most companies will keep wage hikes to between 2 and 2.5 percent.
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UNVEILS MINIMUM WAGE HIKE, SPECIAL BONUSES IN WAKE OF TAX REFORM * GREAT WESTERN BANCORP - AS RESULT OF TAX REFORM PACKAGE,RAISING MINIMUM WAGE TO $15; ONE-TIME $500 BONUS OR WAGE INCREASE FOR NEARLY 70% OF WORKFORCE Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage:
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PARIS, March 13 (Reuters) - Air France on Tuesday said it had rejected a demand by staff for a 6 percent wage increase and instead offered unions to compensate workers for any reduction in spending power since 2011, hoping to avert a planned March 23 strike.
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It has relied on government bailout to stay afloat, and on Tuesday confirmed it wanted to cut 944 of its staff to ease its financial pain and pay creditors, a move unions say is aimed at avoiding a granting workers an 8% wage increase.
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This store is owned by Jeri-Lynn Horton-Joyce (Tim Horton's daughter) and Ron Joyce Jr. (the son of Ron Joyce, who co-founded the chain) and was the most high profile to fuck over their employees in response to the minimum wage increase.
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Restaurants open and close all the time, so it is not hard to find stories of businesses that went under after a minimum-wage increase, but a 2015 report by two Cornell professors found little evidence that raising the minimum wage has hurt the industry.
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Mr. Mayo said the wage increase announced by Bank of America also reflected a trend among large banks toward employing fewer low-wage employees like tellers in favor of more highly skilled workers like financial advisers and technologists who help operate digital banking services.
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Mark C. Long, one of the authors of the University of Washington study, said he felt reasonably confident in his team's results because the largest loss of hours occurred in 2016, just after the minimum-wage increase to $13 an hour went into effect.
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In the last round of negotiations, Charter offered workers an average 13 percent wage increase and "comprehensive" retirement and health benefits, including a 401(k) that provides a dollar-for-dollar match up to 6 percent of eligible pay, Mr. Bonomo said in a statement.
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Throughout he seeks to estimate the "own-wage elasticity" (OWE) in each context: the increase in wages for a given group caused by an increase in the minimum wage, divided by the change in that group's probability of employment caused by the minimum wage increase.
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A key goal for the super PAC will be to wrench the pro-worker message back from Trump, who has attracted blue-collar support campaigning against immigration, trade liberalization and offshoring, but also favors right-to-work laws and opposes a federal minimum wage increase.
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White House adviser calls a wage hike 'silly' While President Donald Trump was on both sides of this issue during his campaign in 2016 and said certain states need much higher wages, his White House has been cool to the idea of a minimum wage increase.
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The exact amount is hard to pin down, as companies are not required to report how they used the tax savings, but one analysis shows that only about 4.4 percent of US workers got a wage increase or bonus as a result of the tax bill.
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DUESSELDORF, Germany, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Germany's biggest trade union, IG Metall, on Tuesday demanded a 6 percent wage increase for the 72,000 employees in the steel industry in the north-west of the country, possibly setting a benchmark for millions of workers in Europe's largest economy.
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The governor and state budget officials have said that a statewide minimum-wage increase, along with a push to increase enrollment in Medicaid, a state and federal program that provides health care to low-income residents, are among the biggest reasons the budget deficit is so large.
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Looking ahead, Mr. Graham envisioned working with the president on issues as varied as an immigration overhaul — Mr. Trump has "credibility no one else has" — and a minimum-wage increase, which Mr. Graham says he intends to introduce when the Senate considers revamping the tax code.
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Krista Ruffini, a doctoral student at the Goldman School of Public Policy at Berkeley, pulled together 25 years of administrative records for patients in long-term residential care and tried to isolate how their health changed in response to their caregivers getting a minimum wage increase.
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"A market that reacts negatively to a 2.9 percent wage increase and record-low unemployment is a troubled one," Daniel Lacalle, chief economist at Tressis Gestion said in a note, referring to official data in February that showed an increase in hourly wages in the previous month.
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Health care and budget experts have said a variety of factors are behind the trend, including an increase in demand for personal care programs that provide nonmedical services to disabled New Yorkers, a minimum-wage increase and financial assistance that the state has provided to struggling hospitals.
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When I saw at 8:30 that wage [increase] year over year hitting a nine-year high, I said, 'Wow, we're probably going to get four interest rate hikes, we're going to see the 10-year probably go to 3 [percent],'" Siegel said on CNBC's "Closing Bell.
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Clinton explained that her policy at the federal level would mirror New York's recent minimum wage increase, which establishes a $15 floor for workers in the New York City metro area and a $12.50 minimum wage for the rest of the state, where the cost of living is lower.
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The percentage wage increase is better for high school graduates, he said, but the dollar increase still favors the rich: a 3.3% raise for someone making $20,219 a year is $23—only an eighth of the $276.8,28 raise going to someone earning $29,22013 and getting a 9% increase.
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"Our 2628 percent wage increase will have a real, meaningful impact on our Cast and their families—and is part of our commitment to the thousands of Cast Members who make magic for our guests each and every day," said George A. Kalogridis, president of Walt Disney World Resort.
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Indeed, in announcing the wage increase and brokering a deal with Senate Republicans, Mr. Cuomo seemed to be treading a fine line between confidence that $15 would eventually be reached statewide and cautioning that the wage could be suspended if it was determined to be hurting the economy.
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In the past, Amazon also has tried to stay top-of-mind by making attention-grabbing announcements during the holiday season, like those of a minimum wage increase for all employees and the locations of its new headquarters, which the company made at the end of last year.
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The median study looking at a broad group of low-wage workers estimates an "elasticity" of -0.04; that is, a 25-percent increase in average wages for a given group due to a minimum wage increase should lead to a 1 percent decline in employment for that group.
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More broadly, he said, the contribution of his paper is to show that one impulse of many employers in the face of a minimum-wage increase will be to find more productive workers, even if there are limits on how much they can follow through on this desire.
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A nationwide study of 219 cities found that H-1B-driven increases in STEM workers were associated with wage increases of 20133 percent to 8 percent for college-educated native-born workers, while non-college-educated native-born workers saw a wage increase of 3 percent to 4 percent.
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Some of that politics is trying to get out from under Bernie Sanders's line of fire (and indeed, Sanders and Jeff Bezos formed a weird mutual admiration society on Twitter Tuesday), but Amazon went even beyond that and said it will start lobbying for a large federal minimum wage increase.
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NEW YORK, Feb 2 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury yields rose further on Friday with 10-year hitting a four-year high as data that showed stronger-than-expected hiring and the biggest annual wage increase since 2009 in January fanned fears of domestic inflation accelerating and intensified the current bond market rout.
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The 29-year old group did, however, forecast on Thursday that second half profits would benefit from the annualisation of last year's staff wage increase and a normalisation of marketing costs and weather comparatives - implying it was on track to make analysts' profit consensus for the full 2229-20 year.
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A team of researchers at the University of Washington examined the effect of Seattle's wage increase from $28503 per hour to $22019 per hour and, in 2017, concluded that it led to about 5,000 workers losing their jobs and to low-wage workers losing an average of $125 every month.
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Their no-good-very-bad year includes news coming out about some of their franchises (including the heirs to the Hortons fortune) fucking over their workers in response to a minimum wage increase, someone angrily pooping in one of their restaurants, and watching Canadians turn on them over and over.
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At a time when Amazon announced a nationwide minimum wage increase that could put pressure on other retailers, the administration was trumpeting a trade pact with Mexico and Canada that will steer auto production to higher wage locales, and leaves in place new tariffs on steel, a key industrial input.
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When Ms. Hochul boasted that she had helped the governor pass an increase in the minimum wage, Mr. Williams pointed out that long before Ms. Hochul and Mr. Cuomo threw their support behind the wage increase, he was leading protests at fast-food restaurants to raise awareness of the issue.
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Venezuela just raised its minimum wage for the fifth time in a year Venezuela just raised its minimum wage for the fifth time in a year Venezuela's minimum wage shot up by 50 percent on Sunday, marking the fifth wage increase put into effect by President Nicolas Maduro in the past year.
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Audi has offered a total 20 percent wage increase for this year and next, but the union wants an immediate 18 percent increase, and even more down the line to bring its workers more in line with Slovakians, who make 28 percent more at Audi, or Poles, who earn 39 percent more.
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The second is standing on a platform of slightly expanding existing, patchy health care coverage, free tuition for in-state students at public colleges, a cap to ensure that no family has to spend more than 10 percent of its income on child care, and a vague proposal for a minimum wage increase.
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Now Sprig has confirmed this is part of a wide-range of not-yet-announced perks for its servers, including a $230/hour wage increase, to $14.50, and the ability for those who work more than 35 hours a week to receive full-time employee status with health benefits and equity grants.
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The department killed Clinton-era rules meant to protect workers from repetitive-stress injuries and replaced them with mere "voluntary guidelines," blocked a wage increase set to go into effect for legal immigrant farmworkers in the H-2A program, and demanded stricter expense disclosures from unions, as the Lexington Herald-Leader rounded up.
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The federal law became a key issue in the 2016 Democratic primary, in which Bernie Sanders called for a $15 minimum wage—a number often held up as the gold standard by progressive activists—whereas the more cautious Hillary Clinton supported a wage increase generally but said the federal rate should be $12.
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It's worth noting that one section of the University of Washington paper focused on the food-and-drink service industry, finding that within that sector, the minimum wage increase did, in fact, raise wages without hurting jobs — which you could certainly argue dovetails with the Berkeley paper's findings about fast-food workers.
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Audi has offered a total 20 percent wage increase for this year and next, but the union wants an immediate 18 percent increase, and more down the line to give its workers greater parity with Audi's Slovak employees, who the union says make 28 percent more, or its Polish staff, who earn 39 percent more.
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Josh Barro at Business Insider made the case last week that we would be better off simply raising the minimum wage: From the firm's perspective, a new fee on low-wage employment would have a very similar effect to a minimum wage increase: It would increase the firm's cost to employ a low-skill worker.
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Certainly it joins other positive signs for organized labor, along with the defeat of public-sector union bargaining cutbacks in a 2011 referendum in Ohio; the recent teachers' strikes in red states like Oklahoma and West Virginia; the wave of unionization in media; and minimum-wage increase campaigns that have succeeded in many major cities.
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Wage hikes help everyonePerhaps the principal reason that the minimum wage increase did not seem to have a negative effect on the restaurant industry in New York is that the state's economy is strong overall, so businesses have been able to absorb the increases without having to make hard decisions about where to cut.
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But beginning with David Card and Alan Krueger's landmark 1994 study of New Jersey's minimum wage increase, a growing economics literature is reaching a different conclusion: that the jobs effects found in these other studies is overstated, and that the rising minimum wages in the United States have had more of a net benefit.
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Right out of the gate, they want her to move quickly on college debt relief, talk up a minimum wage increase and pay close attention to resisting any Dodd-Frank rollbacks as she negotiates an expected tax reform deal as part of the infrastructure bill she's said would be part of her first 100 days.
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If even a fraction of those workers mobilize around the issue in tight senate races like Arizona, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, they could tip those races and the balance of the Senate, giving the majority to the Democrats who stand ready to do all they can to enact a robust minimum wage increase.
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That is the difference between the 4.2 percent real hourly wage increase that the Obama administration's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) claimed American workers enjoyed at the end of the first quarter of 2016, and the revised reality of a 0.4 percent drop in wages reported for that same period in the report released in August, as Breitbart noted.
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Her leaks were some of the most explosive ever published on Wikileaks, and showed, among many other things, that the State Department fought against a minimum wage increase in Haiti, that American officials were instructed to hide evidence of child abuse by contractors in Afghanistan, and that the Egyptian government received torture training at an FBI facility in Virginia.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Monday appeared to signal that he is continuing to look into the prospect of giving federal workers a wage increase.
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By the same token, when Walmart announced a wage increase in February 2015 and then another one in January 2016, everyone got the basic story: The years-long process of economic recovery was underway, and a company forced to share a bit more money with its workforce wanted to milk the moment for whatever PR opportunity it was worth.
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In fact, in this quarter's survey, 57% of all small business owners say these minimum wage increases will have no impact at all on their business in 2020, indicating that they can absorb the cost of the wage increase, sustain any loss in profits and find ways to raise revenue to compensate for the increase on their balance sheets.
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The husband-and-wife research team of Michael Luca of Harvard Business School and Dara Lee Luca of Mathematica Policy Research identified the ratings of tens of thousands of restaurants in the San Francisco area on the website Yelp and found that many poorly rated restaurants tend to go out of business after a minimum-wage increase takes effect.
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Joe Sanberg, a tech startup founder and founder of the advocacy group CalEITC 4 Me, tells me he wants to increase the minimum wage to $25 per hour to help deal with this matter, which is significantly above California's median hourly earnings and is a high enough figure to make even minimum-wage increase supporters like me queasy.
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In blog posts about the wage increase (slightly different ones were posted on its U.S. and U.K. sites), Amazon said it would replace its restricted stock unit [RSU] program with a direct stock purchase plan before the end of next year, and that the net effect of its changes would be "significantly more total compensation for employees," but did not mention monthly bonuses.
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While Sanders was the big-ideas candidate of the 22019 primary, inspiring base voters and pushing Clinton to the left on everything from free college to a minimum wage increase, Warren has seized that role this time around with bold proposals to break up big tech, pay off student loan debt, tax the ultra-wealthy, and provide universal childcare, captivating liberal voters.
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While Sanders was the big-ideas candidate of the 2016 primary, inspiring base voters and pushing Clinton to the left on everything from free college to a minimum wage increase, Warren has seized that role this time around with bold proposals to break up big tech, pay off student loan debt, tax the ultra-wealthy, and provide universal childcare, captivating liberal voters.
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When they want to work government power to get Glass-Steagall repealed, when they want to work government power to shoot down Obamacare, when they want to work government power to make sure Medicare-for-All doesn't happen, when they want to work government power to make sure a minimum wage increase doesn't happen, they're very capable of navigating the system.
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There are policies that could do that, things like a minimum wage increase (Trump has waffled between wanting to raise it and wanting to eliminate it), expanding the earned income tax credit for childless adults and into the middle class, eliminating payroll taxes on the first $11,500 or so of wages, offering a cash allowance for all parents with children, or a federal job guarantee.
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Patty MurrayPatricia (Patty) Lynn MurrayOvernight Health Care: Planned Parenthood to leave federal family planning program absent court action | Democrats demand Trump withdraw rule on transgender health | Cummings, Sanders investigate three drug companies for 'obstructing' probe Democrats demand Trump officials withdraw rule on transgender health The Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate MORE (Wash.), who previously supported a smaller minimum wage increase. Reps.
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And even though the particular of how to ask for a raise is so dependent on your industry, your relationship with your boss, your role in the company, and even the day of the week (seriously, there's been research showing bosses are more receptive to wage increase requests on on Fridays), the hardest part can just be scheduling the meeting and making the request.
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Last year, the United States set a record for the longest period of time without a federal minimum wage increase, and though the number of Americans with multiple jobs has fallen over the last couple decades, the current data may fail to account for the enormity of the gig economy, and the seamlessness with which many of us pick up side gigs to supplement our income.
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You can go through everyone who's ever been at the bargaining table and they have quotes from a decade ago saying health cost growth is so high that when we get to the bargaining table the employer is telling us they won't give us a wage increase because all of our money went to extra health benefits and the health benefit cost growth is really hurting our wages.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE (D-Mass.) and a signed pledge to support the major components of his agenda: a minimum wage increase, tax reform, student loan relief, educational supports, campaign finance reform, antitrust legislation, trade policy and support for renewable energy, reduced military spending and a restraint on foreign wars.
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"If you imagine what it was like for ordinary working people to read the story about how the heirs to the Tim Hortons fortune sitting poolside from their villa in Florida to be issuing a memo to the workers in Cobourg saying 'as a result of the minimum wage increase, we're no longer going to be giving you paid breaks and we're going to make your basic health and dental benefits more expensive It's such a cruel and callous thing to do," said Frache outside a Bloor Street Tim Hortons.
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