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- Understanding the Minimum Wage
- Every U.S. business must comply with the minimum wage laws of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act FLSA. This article shows the current national minimum hourly wage, explains whom it applies to, and lists the exceptions. It also describes which elements of workers' pay are included in the minimum wage...
- Articles 2007-09-28
- Mastering the Art of Social Networking
- As the unemployment rate sky rockets, jobs have become increasingly difficult to find. Erica Hill speaks with career coach Win Sheffield and Alana Tepper, who found work through social networking.
- Videos 2009-03-14
- Creating White-Collar Work
- Over a million white-collar jobs are expected to be created by the new stimulus plan, which could provide a significant boost to the nation's weakening economy. Ben Tracy reports from Los Angeles.
- Videos 2009-03-06
- Finding Career Flexibility
- When used car salesman Lynn Love felt the weight of the economic recession, he decided to find a new passion. As Mark Strassmann reports, he's opened his own mobile kitchen.
- Videos 2009-04-07
- Avoiding Job Cuts
- Some state programs are helping companies scale back hours rather than eliminating jobs. But unemployment and "underemployment" are worsening; one retailer says it doesn't expect things to bounce back for a year.
- Videos 2009-07-02
- Salary Cuts Persist Long After Layoffs
- A recent study found that even 15 to 20 years after a layoff, many affected workers are still earning 20% less. Here are the true stories from one Florida networking group.
- Videos 2009-08-11
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- Government Boosts Minimum Wage to $7.25 Per Hour? Outrageous!
- Perhaps my many awful jobs during high school and college give me a bias, but I've never understood how anyone could object to raising the minimum wage. Every couple of years, the state and federal forces insist that employers give five million or so janitors, fry cooks and housekeepers a...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Increase-Your-Wage Calculator
- If you work one hour and spend that hour's entire wage on a non-necessary, non-appreciating purchase, you have effectively limited the value of one hour's wage to its face value. On the other hand, if you were to invest all or part of the one hour's wage into an interest...
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Measuring Union and Nonunion Wage Growth : Puzzles in Search of Solutions
- This paper presents conflicting evidence on trends in private sector union and nonunion wages. The ECI shows a substantial decrease in wage growth for union relative to nonunion workers. The annual Employer Costs for Employee Compensation ECEC, drawn from the same survey data as the ECI, provides wage level estimates...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Endogenous Wage Rigidity
- This paper uses a random survey of Swedish human resource managers to study the reasons for wage rigidity. The findings are as follows. First, during the exceptional recession of the 1990s only 1.1 percent of workers received a wage cut. Second, much wage rigidity can be traced to behavioral mechanisms...
- White papers 2003-08-21
- Wage Conversion Calculator
- This tool will help you to quickly convert a wage stated in one periodic term (hourly, weekly, etc.) into its equivalent stated in all other common periodic terms. This can be helpful when comparing your present wage to a wage being offered by a prospective employer where each wage is...
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- The stakes of raising the federal minimum wage: with the 110th Congress poised to increase the federal minimum wage, the apartment industry readies itself for the possible positive--and negative--repercussions.
- A priority for congressional Democrats, who recently earned majorities in both houses of Congress, is to pass legislation that would raise the federal minimum wage. The federal minimum wage, which is currently set at $5.15 per hour, has not been incr A priority for congressional Democrats,...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Minimum Wage
- The article is on the Minimum wage law in the United States. This law can be characterized as being a combination of state and federal law. Eleven states and jurisdictions have minimum wages that are set higher than the federal minimum wage (Alaska, California, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- High Impact For Low-Wage Workers
- From the executive summary: ‘No one believes that employers are solely responsible for solving the enormous and complex problems facing the working poor. Human resources executives constantly struggle to find qualified workers so that their companies can successfully compete. But, as research is beginning to show, offering low-wage workers a...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Wage Policy and Endogenous Wage Rigidity: A Representative View From the Inside
- This paper reports the results from a representative survey of human resource managers in 885 Swedish firms. It estimates that during the severe recession of the 1990s, only 1.1 percent of workers took a cut in regular nominal pay. The analysis suggests that endogenous wage rigidity plays an important role...
- White papers 2002-08-20
- Outsourcing, Innovation, And Wage Inequality In The United States
- A puzzle of outsourcing is why the effects of outsourcing on wage inequality found in most empirical papers on the 1980s can not be seen when investigating the 1970s. Two additional questions of this puzzle are: did wages for all skilled labor decrease because of outsourcing? Second, is the falling...
- White papers 2007-02-26
- Associations urge Senate to retain wage provisions - in House of Representatives minimum wage bill
- WASHINGTON -- Encouraged by the House of Representatives' passage of a minimum-wage freeze for tipped workers and a subminimum starting wage for young people, the National Restaurant Association and state restaurant groups are urging senators to back similar, industry-friendly provisions or, better yet, scuttle a proposed minimum-wage hike outright.
- Research articles 1996-06-24
- ANLA briefs Congress on ag wage increase. (The Buzz).
- American Nursery and Landscape Association ANLA and Department of Labor DOL officials recently briefed more than 30 Congressional staff members concerned about the just-released 2002 Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWRs: the minimum wage rate that mu American Nursery and Landscape Association ANLA and Department of ...
- Research articles 2002-07-01
- Senate rejects minimum-wage increase.(INDUSTRY NEWS)(Brief Article)
- On March 7, the U.S. Senate voted down two amendments that would have increased the federal minimum wage as part of the bankruptcy overhaul bill (S. 256). Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1996. On March 7, the U.S. Senate voted down...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- WakeUpWalMart.com: Wal-Mart Flip-Flops on Minimum Wage; Wal- Mart's Campaign of Lies and Deception Continues
- WASHINGTON, June 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Despite multiple headlines in October 2005 which read "Wal-Mart Urges Congress to Raise the Minimum Wage," Wal-Mart announced today it does not support raising the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, according tWASHINGTON, June 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Despite multiple headlines in October 2005...
- Research articles 2006-06-28
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