federal minimum wage
A couple of generations of school kids have grown up on the catchy McDonaldâs advertising jingle, âYou deserve a break today.â But during every working moment of those years McDonaldâs workers have gotten anything but a break when it comes to working hours and worse, their wages for those hours. The Bureau of Labor Statistics […]
McDonaldâs might finally have figured out that paying its low-wage workers more would actually be a good thing for McDonaldâs. McDonaldâs CEO Don Thompson recently suggested his company would support a bill, proposed by President Barack Obama, raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour from $7.25. Such a wage hike likely wouldnât satisfy […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) â Connecticut lawmakers Wednesday approved raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2017, the highest for any state in the country and the same rate that President Barack Obama wants for the federal minimum wage. Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who recently appeared with Obama and several New England governors […]