Minimum Wage

A law aimed at raising fast-food workers' wages and creating better working conditions will get put to California voters in 2024.

The divergence between U.S. job openings and unemployment could create volatility across the economy, Cato Institute director of general economics Scott Lincicome argues.

Dan Roccato, a finance professor at the University of San Diego, breaks down the latest New York Federal Reserve Bank survey that revealed salary expectations have hit a record high.

Save Local Restaurants said Monday it had filed more than 1 million petition signatures to put the law on hold and place an initiative before California voters on the 2024 ballot.

Hard Rock International Chairman and Seminole Gaming CEO Jim Allen says the $100 million wage investment aims to ease inflation "tension in the labor force."

Flagstaff, Arizona, will raise its minimum wage to $16.80 from $15.50 starting Jan. 1, 2023. Voters passed a minimum wage act in 2016 to offset the increase in the cost of living.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law giving fast food workers more power to set working conditions, despite opposition groups arguing it would drive up costs.

Gray Television is set to raise its minimum hourly wage to $18 in October. The new rate will apply to full-time, non-commissioned and non-contracted employees.

Wingstop franchisee Boss Wings Enterprises LLC was ordered to pay over $100,000 for several violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, including minimum wage violations and flouting child labor laws.

An initiative to increase the minimum hourly wage in Tukwila, Washington, has qualified for the November ballot. The effect of this initiative would be a $3-an-hour increase.

Austin City Council is weighing a proposal to raise the minimum wage to $22 an hour as city jobs struggle to keep workers amid the high cost of living.

The move, which brings the bank a step closer to fulfilling its pledge of paying $25 per hour by 2025, will increase the annualized salary for full-time employees to more than $45,000.

Hawaii lawmakers passed a measure Tuesday to increase the state's minimum wage to $18 per hour by 2028.

2018 study revealed Disneyland California workers barely live paycheck-to-paycheck.

At his State of the Union address on March 1, President Joe Biden called for extending Child Tax Credit payments and reducing child care costs.

The states argue that the wage hike will add pressure on top of the current burden of inflation on top of economic weakness.

Rafting outfitters fought a federal $15 minimum wage mandate and lost.

SmartAsset recently found the cities with the highest and lowest “real” minimum wage this year, based on cost of living.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday that his Social Democrats (SPD) were pushing ahead with their election promise to raise the national minimum wage to 12 euros an hour, as it was important to show respect for low-paid workers.

Federal agencies are being directed to raise the minimum wage for government employees to $15 an hour, according to new guidance from the Office of Personnel Management.