Missouri workers who hire through staffing agencies like Labor Ready should be aware that in the past, in this state and elsewhere around the nation, the company failed to pay its workers the “prevailing wage” rates when they worked on
In Missouri and many other states, the governments have been attempting to help the local economies in the wake of the overall recession in the United States. Multiple steps are often taken to do this. Some of these steps include
A 25-year old fast food worker from Kansas City recently took part in an organized protest against the corporate headquarters of McDonald’s in Oak Brook, Illinois. The woman earns $7.75 an hour at her position, an increase of only fifty
The United States Senate has introduced a bill that would increase the federal minimum wage in three increments. Six months after becoming law, employers would be required to pay their workers $8.20 an hour. After a year, the hourly wage
The Obama administration vowed to veto a GOP-sponsored bill in the House that would redefine full-time employment from 30 hours a week as stated in the Affordable Care Act to 40 hours a week. The change is aimed at exempting
Salaried workers in the United States will benefit from President Obama’s proposed updated regulations that will end the ban on salaried workers earning overtime pay. The president plans to use his executive authority to bypass an intransigent Congress to raise
Last month, a group that included a small business owner, clergymen and workers testified in support of Senate Bill 531 before a Missouri Senate committee. Democratic Senator Jamilah Nasheed of St. Louis introduced the bill to authorize a ballot referendum
The impetus for President Obama’s announcement that he would raise the minimum wage for workers covered under federal contracts to $10.10 appears to be a nod to a coalition of civil rights and labor groups known as Good Jobs Nation.
Proposed legislation that would gradually increase the federal minimum wage was endorsed by 75 well-known economists in a letter addressed to federal lawmakers and President Obama. The wage law is being sponsored by two Democratic members of Congress, one from
Both an increase in the Missouri minimum wage and a business tax cut have resulted due to laws passed years ago that either had provisions for inflation or effective dates that were to be phased-in. On Jan. 1, the state
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