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Businesses seek to overturn hotel and airport wage hikes by forcing a citywide election
The group, known as the L.A. Alliance for Tourism, Jobs and Progress, would need to gather about 93,000 signatures by June 30 ...
Lidl, Pizza Express, and British Airways named for failing to pay minimum wage to workers
The companies are among 500 others that the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has "named and shamed" for short-changing ...
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Los Angeles Passes US’s Highest Minimum Wage as Labor Prepares for 2028 Olympics
Meanwhile, unions organize as over 100 hotel and catering contracts in the area expire in the run-up to the Olympics.
Income inequality undermines support for higher minimum wages, study finds
High levels of income inequality weaken support for raising the minimum wage, which in turn could further worsen income ...
Nebraska senator introduces, withdraws amendment to voter-approved minimum wage law
In Lincoln, lawmakers thwart a third attempt to limit the voter-approved minimum wage law. Legislative Bill 258 would replace ...
Bill weakening Nebraska paid sick leave passes, but Dems stall effort to slow minimum wage growth
An effort to add a proposal slowing voter-approved minimum wage increases to a bill weakening voter-passed paid sick leave ...
Wage Division Investigative Ranks Hit 52-Year Low Under Trump
The number of investigators at the US Labor Department who enforce child labor, minimum wage, and other workplace laws fell ...
LA City Council approves minimum wage raise for airport and hotel workers
The LA tourism board said businesses could lose $2.3 billion once the minimum wage for airport and hotel workers rises to $30 ...