XpertHR - Employment Intelligence (Free subscription) | yesterday
It its submission to the Low Pay Commission, the TUC has recommended that the national minimum wage from October 2009 should be at least £6.10, and says it should be increased to more than £6.50 from October 2010.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE minimum wage should increase to £6.10 an hour next year the Trades Union Congress said yesterday.
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE minimum wage should increase to £6.10 an hour next year and to £6.50 in 2010, the TUC said today.
PJH Law - Employment Law Blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The TUC has apparently called for the minimum wage to be increased to £6.10 next October. Worries are that the Low Pay Commission who set the minimum wage may not want to increase it much next year because of the recession and increased unemployment. It is believed that increasing the wages of the very low paid will increase [...]
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | yesterday
TUC urges minimum wage increase
SayUncle (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Ford CEO Alan Mulally said he’ll work for $1 per year if the company has to take any government loan money.
Zawya.com - Top Regional News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saudi Arabia plans to set minimum wage guidelines for Saudi nationals, but but not for the millions of foreign workers in the Gulf oil powerhouse, the labour ministry said on Tuesday.
The Visible Hand in Economics (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
The Standard has been stating that tax cuts should be “fairer”. Now in principle I have no problem with things being “fairer” - however, defining what is fair very is subjective, and what the Standard sees as fair and what I see as fair might be different. Still, both the Standard and No Right Turn [...]
News Unfiltered (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ohio voters went to their polling places to cast their votes in November, 2006 confident that their vote would count and confident that what they read when they voted would be enacted into law. Several ballot initiatives appeared on that day. Issue 2 was the Minimum Wage ballot initiative, described in 1039 words on the ballot. Issue 5, the Ohio smoking ban ballot initiative, was described in 202...
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
No matter how bad the times are there is always someone ready to make a fast buck out of those in trouble. Are there are fewer people in more trouble than those in debt, bereft of savings, on the minimum wage (or worse) and struggling to feed and clothe their families. And very often these [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Workers are denied employment rights such as maternity leave, holiday pay and the minimum wage, Citizens Advice says.
The Radical Moderate (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
In this week's News of the Weird , there's a very funny bit, if you're an old enough techie. "Facing a state budget crisis in July, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fired about 10,000 temporary and part-time workers and ordered the 200,000 permanent employees to be paid only the minimum wage of $6.55 an hour until the legislature passed a crisis-solving budget. However, a week later the State...
whoar.co.nz (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
(um..!..cd someone plse email this to english/key..? ..cos’ it’s time to raise the minimum wage..and they need all the arguments/encouragement they can get.. ..to ensure they do the ‘right thing’..which is a sorta ‘left thing.. ..whoar..!..it’s getting confusing..!…?.. ..eh..?) “..It was Boss Tweed that observed that you can always hire one half of the poor to kill the other half [...]
green LA girl (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Question: Are there any Fair Trade wines'? I know we have organic wines but what is the labor situation like? It is unjust that the minimum wage requirement does not apply to Farm Workers in the U.S. It would be great to support a Fair Trade wine this holiday season! I would try to make [...]
bobvis (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
In a prior post, billoo asked Should there be a minimum wage , do people deserve a "decent" wage? If you are going to make a convincing argument to me about why these laws make sense, it would be based on the idea that we ought to ensure humane living conditions for people. If we should ensure humane living conditions though, who should pay for them? A minimum wage law imposes the costs on Businesses...
