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Missouri workers who have established employment profiles and curated contacts on the online networking site LinkedIn may be interested to learn that the popular internet site has entered into an agreement to pay 359 former and current employees over $3.34 million of overtime back wages along with more than $2.5 million of liquidated damages. Following an investigation from the federal…
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 public work projects like maintaining or construction of public buildings. The industrial staffing firm TrueBlue Inc. is the parent company…
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 reducing the amount of income tax that people have to pay, reducing aid to those who are jobless for an…
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 cents since she began work in 2011. She admitted that the working conditions are fair at the restaurant but stated.…
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 would increase to $9.15 before finally reaching $10.10 in the next year. Missouri’s minimum wage is currently $7.50 an hour,…
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 more employers from having to provide health care to their employees and may affect some Missouri workers. One of the…
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 the salary threshold for low-level supervisors and managers, clearing the way for them to claim overtime wages. Under current wage…
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 raising the minimum wage in Missouri to $10. It is currently $7.50. Those testifying stated that a higher minimum wage…
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. Since May of last year, the joint coalition was the organizer of seven District of Columbia demonstrations at which participants…
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 the House and one from the Senate. Missouri’s minimum wage is currently $7.50 per hour. It is estimated that there…