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Brittany’s take on new COVID workplace Article by By Geralyn Edward As Barbados enters its fourth week of a national lockdown, designed to slow the alarming pace of COVID-19 infections on the island, a leading human resource professional, Brittany Brathwaite, says the pandemic has forever altered the workplace, and there may never be a return to the old way’ of working. Brathwaite, president of the Barbados Human Resources Management Association of Barbados (HRMAB), has led the organisation representing over 200 human resource managers across every sector of economic activity, f...

The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce is sending a notice to Washington D.C. in response to a Congressional bill that would increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour over a four-year period.

Jerome Adonis, KMU secretary general, said workers urgently need and deserve the wage hike especially now that prices of commodities and services, primarily food products, are at an all-time high and workers need proper nutrition to develop greater immunity to COVID-19 and other illnesses.

Talk to me about this minimum wage bill. i want to tell you what the cbo says. they have said while it could boost wages for well over a million people, it could also cost some jobs, a million jobs. >> well, we think it will result in boosting wages for tens of millions of americans over time. in a manner that will also be good for the economy because when you put more money in the pockets of everyday americans, you increase consumer demand. when you increase consumer demand, you increase spending. when you increase spending, you boost the economy. so that in and of itself is incredibly import...

Booming energy. pick any metric that you want america's resurgence is real. we are better off. >> but president obama isn't letting up and will push hard for congress to pass a national minimum wage bill this year. so what can we look forward to in 2015? and what can we expect from republicans in congress? will they help or hurt this recovery? joining me now is jared bernstein and maria theresa kumar. thank you both for being here. >> thank you, rev. >> happy new year. >> happy new year to both of you. >> thanks. >> jared, we now have a majority of states in this country, 29 with a minimum wag...