The City of Forest Park is booting the livelihood of its city employees who are working in the area. Last fall, city council members voted unanimously to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $23.46 an ...

The ordinance has increased minimum wage in unincorporated King County to $20.29 an hour, but there are exceptions based on ...

A higher minimum wage has combined with the usual seasonal factors to put some businesses in a very hard spot.

It’s time to declare war on the rich. We need to build an organized, unified movement of working people to systematically ...

A recent letter in this paper raised concerns about Burien’s new minimum wage ordinance, but it’s important to set the record straight. Burien’s current wage law, which went into effect on January 1, ...

Virginia’s minimum wage recently increased to $12.41 an hour. Democrats sought a higher increase last year, but Gov. Glenn ...

Vote NO on Initiative Measure 1I write to ask my fellow Burien residents to vote NO on Initiative Measure 1, to save Burien’s small businesses. The initiative, which was drafted and is being pushed ...

Washington was one of 21 states to implement an increase in minimum wage at the start of the new year. The wage went from $16.28 per hour to $16.66 per hour. Many student workers are receiving minimum ...

A private immigration prison in Tacoma must pay $23 million in back wages and penalties for violating Washington’s minimum wage law, after it paid detainees as little as $1 a day, a federal ...

South Africa introduced a national minimum wage (NMW) in 2019 – however, as the figure has risen, so has outright non-compliance and the use of tactics like cutting work hours to get around the ...

Although inequalities in income and wealth have existed throughout much of human history, they have been softened somewhat by a variety of factors, including labor unions and―in modern times―minimum ...

Seattle’s minimum wage rose on Jan. 1 from $19.97 per hour to $20.76, as stated in an ordinance from the City of Seattle. The new hourly wage is $4 higher than the state of Washington’s new ...