Browsing: Minimum Wage
I’m paid $14 an hour to rate AI-generated Google search results. Subcontractors like me do key work but don’t get fair wages or benefits
You probably google things a lot. But it’s unlikely you think about the subcontractors like me who make your search…
Shareholders are on a spree, raking in more in dividends than the average worker makes in eight months
The shareholder takes it all, the worker standing small— in the adjusted words of ABBA. These days, investors of companies…
Outsourcing founder explains why a Manhattan restaurant uses a staffing firm in the Philippines that pays cashiers a few dollars an hour: ‘The cost is admittedly cheaper than the U.S.’
Trying hard to stay afloat in a restaurant industry spending 36% of its cash on labor and with minimum wage…
California’s new $20 minimum wage could leave the state with higher unemployment for years to come, economist says
California implemented its $20 minimum wage law for fast-food workers on Monday, bumping pay up to 25% from the state’s…
Bay Area Auntie Ann’s Mogul estimates California’s new $20 minimum wage will cost him $470,000 per year
Most fast food workers in California will be paid at least $20 an hour beginning Monday when a new law…
Virginia governor vetoes bill that would have boosted minimum wage from $12 to $15 over two years, saying it wasn’t needed
Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities on Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail…
Panera story is ‘absurd,’ Newsom’s office claims, insisting it’s not exempt from the minimum wage law after all
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has denied a news report that he pushed for an exception to the state’s new…
Meet a 30-year-old delivery driver who dumped the apps to go into business for himself because of a minimum wage law
Tony Illes was riding high for four years as a full-time delivery driver for several apps—by his count, he made…
Burger King worker awarded a backpack, movie ticket, and Starbucks cup after never missing a day in 27 years buys first home with $446,000 in donations
Working at Burger King for just shy of three decades, Kevin Ford found that his loyalty amounted to not much…
New York’s minimum-wage workers had more than just the new year to celebrate Monday, with a pay bump kicking in as the…