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Disabled people can be paid as little as $2.54 per hour. Shaun Bickley urges candidates, companies and others to support equal pay for equal work.

/PRNewswire/ -- Continuing a long history of policy leadership in Indiana, The Columbus Organization's Executive State Director, Keith Digman, has recently...

Prof. of Philosophy Panel Info: A legacy of slavery, the subminimum wage for tipped workers forces a mostly female workforce of waitresses, largely in very casual restaurants, to struggle with the highest rates of poverty and sexual harassment of any workforce, because they must tolerate inappropriate customer behavior to feed their families in tips. Join us for a panel discussion with preeminent experts researching gender-based discrimination and violence. Panelist Bios: Saru Jayaraman: As the President of One Fair Wage and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at Univ. of California, B...

House Democrats are working on details of their graduated plan to raise the U.S. federal minimum wage to $15/hour. Democrats are looking to include the first hike to the federal minimum wage since 2009 in President Biden's coronavirus relief bill. They plan to revise the proposal Tuesday, but it so far includes a quick increase from the current minimum wage of $7.25 to $9.50 within the year. It will then grow annually until hitting $15 in 2025. Meanwhile the tipped minimum wage of $2.50 will rise to $4.95 this year, and again increase until it matches the federal wage. The youth subminimu...

Seyfarth Synopsis: As they have each year since 2016, the minimum wage and exempt salary threshold will increase for New York employers effective December 31, 2020. Minimum Wage (2021) In keeping with the gradual increase in the State’s minimum wage levels, the new tiered rates across the State, effective December 31, 2020, are listed below. Although some elected officials have floated the idea of postponing the effective date of these increases in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we expect these increases to go into effect as scheduled.  The increases depend on employer size and location.�...