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The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has asked the federal government to compensate victims of flooding in the country.

The rehabilitation of the affected families is being carried out under the aegis of the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC).

Three years after the government announced it would scrap minimum wage exemptions and replace them with a wage subsidy, some disabled workers are still earning an average of just $5 an hour. Information obtained by Checkpoint from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment shows there are 169 disabled workers with the exemption. Under the Minimum Wage Act businesses can apply for an exemption to pay an employee with a dissability less than the minimum wage, on the basis they're less productive. Louise Ternouth and Nick Monro have the story.

SLOVENIA, October 27 - The Government adopted the draft Act defining urgent measures to increase the income of pensioners and to limit the rise in social

The commonwealth is 1 of 20 states that hasn’t raised the 13-year-old federal minimum wage of $7.25. Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposals to raise the minimum wage have repeatedly been ignored by the Republican-controlled state legislature.