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Last week Sen. Bill Cassidy called out President Biden’s Department of Labor for “weaponizing its enforcement power against business."

Costco Lifting Minimum Wage To $16 Per Hour, $1 Over Amazon, Walmart, And Target By Eric Volkman 02/26/21 AT 1:01 AM Topping some of its major retail industry rivals, Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ:COST) CEO Craig Jelinek said Thursday that his company is lifting its minimum wage to $16 per hour. The change will take effect next week, and it gets ahead of President Joe Biden's aim to raise the national minimum wage to $15. With the bump, Costco will also put some distance between it and its competitors. Last week, Walmart raised its average hourly wage to $15. Similarly, Amazon and Ta...

US taxpayers should not be “forced to subsidize some of the largest and most profitable corporations in America”, Bernie Sanders told a Senate hearing on Thursday. As Congress debates the first rise in the minimum wage in over a decade, the Vermont senator said he had “talked to too many workers in this country who, with tears in their eyes, tell me the struggles they have to provide for their kids on starvation wages” even as the chief...

Costco will raise its minimum wage to $16 an hour starting next week, CEO Craig Jelinek said.

Costco raising starting wages to $16 amid calls for federal $15 minimum – will competitors follow? Alex Woodward © Provided by The Independent Costco, the second-largest global retailer behind Walmart, will raise its hourly base wages for workers to $16, the company’s chief executive Craig Jelinek told members of Congress on Thursday. The wage hike – which pushes its starting pay above competitors like Amazon, Target and Walmart – comes as lawmakers debate raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour from the current $7.25 minimum. Congressional Republicans have o...