Minimum Wage and Salary

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NEW YORK (AP) — Labor organizers turned up the pressure on McDonald’s and other fast-food chains to raise worker pay on Thursday, with plans to stage actions in more than 30 countries. The demonstrations build on a campaign by unions to bring attention to the plight of low-wage workers and get the public behind the…

• Epidemic in Santa Clara County, with 300 claims from workers each month • 6.4 percent of women, 2 percent of men among SF Bay Area’s 380,000 Filipinos are in the care industry • Stricter enforcement of labor laws, harsher punishment for violators recommended SANTA CLARA, California — In a report it released recently, the…

Subway CEO: How I’d solve the minimum wage debate In the nearly four decades since co-founding Subway, CEO Fred DeLuca’s seen a seismic shift in the restaurant industry as consumers gravitate toward fast-casual restaurants and shift toward healthier eating.

Providing employees with a social “mission” in their jobs doesn’t increase their effort: In an experiment in which workers could generate donations to NGOs of their choice, people whose jobs had a mission made no more effort than purely self-interested workers, say Sebastian Fehrler of the University of Zurich and Michael Kosfeld of Goethe University…

MANILA, Philippines—Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said moves to increase the minimum wage should be brought to the wage boards instead of to the House of Representatives, Inquirer Radio 990AM reported on Thursday, Labor Day.

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There’s a school of thought that “the market” sets the salaries for CEOs and low-wage earners alike. But that’s not the case. FORTUNE — Which two companies have promoted “My Little Pony,” have given back pay due to wage theft accusations, pay some employees less than a living wage, and have the same person on…

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MANILA, Philippines – Some Filipinos are now willing to work below minimum wage as long as they can earn money.

Much of the discussion about the Democratic proposal to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2016 has rightly focused on the workers who will clearly benefit from the move. But what about businesses? How would higher wages affect them?

Members of the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry will appeal the memorandum circular of the Department of Labor and Employment in Region 6, asking businessmen affected by super typhoon “Yolanda” to file for six-month exemption from the P10 wage hike.

WASHINGTON – Raising the U.S. minimum wage would lead to the loss of about half a million jobs by late 2016 but lift almost a million Americans out of poverty, the Congressional Budget Office forecast in a report on Tuesday that reignited debate over one of President Barack Obama’s top priorities this year.

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Labor officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) announced on Thursday an P18-daily wage increase for minimum wage earners that would take effect this month.

MANILA, Philippines – Managers working in the oil and gas industry are the highest paid employees in the country, according to JobStreet.com’s annual salary report. Managers in the oil and gas industry receive an average monthly salary of P74,297.

President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight is expected to include a push to increase the minimum wage. A lot of companies that rely on low-wage workers are worried about that. It’s obvious to them that paying employees more will result in some combination of three outcomes: (a) profits will suffer as the wage…

Minimum wage workers in the private sector in Metro Manila are due an increase of P15 this month in their basic pay, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said. The minimum daily wage in the National Capital Region for non-agricultural workers now stands at P466.00. For other private sector works, the minimum wage is…

Fast-food workers across the United States launched day-long strikes on Thursday to push for what they called a “surviving” wage. WASHINGTON: Fast-food workers across the United States launched day-long strikes on Thursday to push for what they called a “surviving” wage.

MANILA, Philippines – Most workers nationwide are now better off and are earning more to address their basic needs.

MANILA, Philippines – Workers from the Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) and 10 other regions are expected to receive salary increases after the regional wage boards completed public consultations on petitions for a pay hike, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said yesterday.

Some 52% of families of cooks, servers, and other fast-food workers receive public aid, nearly twice the percentage of the overall workforce. FORTUNE — Taxpayers spend at least $7 billion annually to subsidize food stamps and other public assistance programs that fast-food industry workers depend on to get by, according to two new studies.

Rigid policies crimp competitiveness, economists say Four of the most eminent economists in the country have criticized the minimum wage law for perpetuating the twin problems of unemployment and poverty amid rapid economic growth.

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MANILA, Philippines – Increase in minimum wage is not enough to help ordinary employees cope with rising prices of commodities, health, and education.

LABOR AND BUSINESS groups both normally reject mandated minimum wage hikes, with the former complaining the amounts are not enough and the latter decrying the added cost.

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