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Warning: Biden would boost pay but blow up small business Thursday, January 21, 2021  |  Chris Woodward, Billy Davis (OneNewsNow.com) English Spanish President Joe Biden will urge the Democrat-controlled Congress to more than double the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, a push that is alarming some economists and lawmakers, and small business owners already struggling during the pandemic. The current minimum wage is $7.25, which has remained unchanged for more than a decade since it...

ON THE GO Taofeeq Arapaja, Makinde’s candidate, emerges PDP south-west chairman Taofeeq Arapaja, a former deputy governor of Oyo state, has emerged as the south-west chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).Advertisement The south-west congress of the party held at Osogbo,... Countries depending on China’s COVID vaccines ‘may experience increased infection rates’ Scientists say countries that rely on COVID-19 vaccines from China run the risk of experiencing renew...

By Davidleid I. Eluchie The Federal government of Nigeria as part of her Covid – 19 survival/relief schemes, came up with a program it tagged “MSMEs Payroll Support” sometime in the month of September 2020; with the view to sustain at least 500,000 jobs in 50,000 MSMEs in critically affected sectors of the Nigerian economy, which includes: Schools, Hospitals. Creative Industries, Road Transport, Tourism, etc. In furtherance of the above agenda, the government set up a ‘Survival Fund’...

The case was heard by Chief Judge Christina Inglis, Judge Joanna Holden and Judge Kathryn Beck. At the hearing on October 13, the company’s lawyer, Emma Butcher, said it was a simple matter of whether the Minimum Wage Act applied to the payment of employees who were not working. “This is not a case about exploitation of workers,” Butcher said. “The Minimum Wage Act has no application to these facts and as such the determination is incorrect and should be overturned.” Following th...

Bump moves to $10.50 on Jan. 1, 2021 Headlight staff reports ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions (NMDWS) advises employers and workers that New Mexico’s minimum wage is increasing, effective Friday, January 1st, 2021. This increase is in accordance with an amendment to the New Mexico Minimum Wage Act signed into law by Governor Lujan Grisham on April 1, 2019. Beginning January 1, 2021: • State tipped minimum wage: $2.55 per hour "Governor Lujan Grisham, and th...

A recent University of Texas study found that political decisions, including Gov. Greg Abbotts mandate to allow construction work to continue during the coronavirus pandemics outset, placed employees in that sector at risk. The report, titled “COVID-19, Structural Inequality, and the Past and Future of Low-Income Latinx Construction Workers in Austin, Texas,” was released by UTs Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. Its findings suggest that the political climate...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT New Mexico Oil Drilling Workers Say Company Didnt Pay OT Law360 (December 17, 2020, 6:01 PM EST) -- An oil and gas exploration company with wells in New Mexico misclassified drilling consultants as independent contractors and failed to pay overtime when they worked as many as 100 hours a week, the workers alleged in a lawsuit in federal court. In the lawsuit filed Wednesday on behalf of current and former workers, Robert Dolan and Jeffery Lee Jones, former drilling ...

Minimum wage rise: 175k Kiwis set to get a pay rise of $44 a week (Photo / Getty) Thu, 17 Dec 2020, 4:13PM Minimum wage will increase to $20 per hour on April 1 with the Government following through on its commitment from last term. The deadline has been welcomed by the Council of Trade Unions, saying it will help the New Zealanders who are the "working poor" facing rent increases. But Nationals workplace relations spokesman Scott Simpson called the commitment "a cynical re-...

New wage code: Why govts new compensation rules are a hasty composition While the coming few months will show what shape the final codes and underlying rules will take, the government could certainly have taken a more progressive approach to the new definition of wages, to better address ambiguities and legal uncertainties resulting in fewer disputes and litigation Atul Gupta | December 16, 2020 | Updated 22:06 IST Rather than a lengthy definition with several inclusions, exclusions, provisos,...

Minimum wage rise: 175,000 Kiwis set to get a pay rise of $44 a week from April 1 16 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 3 minutes to read Minimum wage will increase to $20 an hour on April 1. Photo / 123rf Political reporter, NZ Herald@AmeliaJWade Minimum wage will increase to $20 per hour on April 1 with the Government following through on its commitment from last term. The deadline has been welcomed by the Council of Trade Unions, saying it will help the New Zealanders who are the "working poor" facing rent ...