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Senate Democrats Tell Government Contractors They Must Pay Their Employees A Living Wage
Democratic Senators sent a letter to the Rules Committee requesting that contractors who do business with the Senate pay a living wage.
Tagged Fair Labor Standards Act
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A Stroke Of Obama’s Pen Will Lift 10.4 Million Workers Into the Middle Class
If the President simply adjusted the salary threshold for inflation since it was last raised in 1975, it would be a more significant income increase for over 10 million low and low middle-class American workers that raising the hourly wage to $15 per hour for the rest of the poverty-wage workforce.
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Judge Rules America’s Fastest Growing Industry Is Exempt From Minimum Wage Law
While the Labor Department’s rule change was meant to protect worker’s rights, the Judge protected Home Care Associates, the International Franchise Association, and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice rights to make bigger profits. The rapidly-growing industry’s leaders convinced the judge that paying the minimum wage, and the outrageous idea of overtime pay, was an abomination and would have a “destabilizing impact” on the nation’s fastest-growing industry.
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Stop Complaining Republicans, the Minimum Wage Should be $22.62 an Hour
Republicans who are wont to claim they speak for all Americans say the people oppose higher wages, but if the minimum wage kept pace with the top 1%, it would be $22.62 an hour.
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The House Republican Attack on Overtime Pay Is Designed to Kill Jobs
The law is another Republican attempt to kill new jobs because without the incentives inherent in the FLSA overtime rule, employers have no reason to hire new employees to avoid paying overtime.