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Byline: Amiram Barkat Nov. 23Israel's Ministry of Finance has issued a memorandum for the Average Salary Law in an attempt to avert a sharp rise in budgetary costs following the [...]

Byline: Cassie Kuhn Oct. 23A proposal by a Decatur lawmaker that would give teachers a pay raise but require them to attend five additional days of professional development during the [...]

Sept. 23-- Sep. 23--Join the conversation () It often seems like no one in government can get on the same page. The president clashes with Congress. The Senate wars with [...]

May 20-- May 20--AMMAN -- In accordance with Defence Order No. 6 of 2020, the Ministry of Labour on Wednesday decided to levy fines on a number of institutions that [...]

Byline: Peter McGuire March 13-- Mar. 13--A bill to improve overtime protections for salaried workers in Maine failed to win support from a legislative committee Thursday, leaving final passage of [...]

Byline: Maram Kayed Aug. 20-- Aug. 20--AMMAN -- With the new school year approaching, private school teachers are urging the Ministry of Education to 'take serious measures' against any school [...]

July 23-- Jul. 23--AMMAN -- The Jordan Teachers Association (JTA) on Monday described Education Minister Walid Maani's promise to improve teachers' conditions as 'misleading'. In a press release, the JTA [...]

Byline: Gillian Graham June 20-- Jun. 20--A general store in Kennebunk has paid more than $92,000 in back wages and damages to 69 employees for failing to properly pay overtime [...]

Byline: Sydney Mook May 23-- May 23--Employees across the UND campus can expect a small pay increase this year, regardless if their position is funded through state appropriated money. Last [...]

April 08-- Apr. 8--Maine's salary for governor is the lowest in the country. This is not something to be proud of. Yet again, there is a bill to raise the [...]

Feb. 04--AMMAN -- Employers do not have the right to delay the distribution of employees' salaries for any reason, Labour Minister Samir Murad said on Sunday.Murad said that private sector [...]

Byline: Katie Gillespie Aug. 26--It's been a summer of debate between area school districts and their teacher unions. This week, those debates will turn to actions. Nearly every teachers union [...]

Byline: Phillip Tutor April 19--America's teachers are in open rebellion. They're walking out of schools, marching on state Capitols, disrupting school calendars and demanding change. It is an astonishing sight. [...]

Byline: Catherine W. Idzerda Feb. 26--JANESVILLE -- Janesville teachers could soon see a new salary structure that would reward both years with the district and professional development. On Tuesday, the [...]

Jan. 24--Like minimum-wage laws, Gov. Tom Wolf's proposal to expand overtime-pay eligibility is a government diktat about matters that are not government's to mandate -- and likely would hurt those [...]

Byline: Eileen Godin Nov. 10--DALLAS TWP. -- A referendum on eliminating school property taxes received statewide voter approval Tuesday, but it will not impact the financing of the Dallas School [...]

Byline: Andrew Dowd Oct. 21--An Eau Claire County supervisor wants to repeal the living wage law the County Board adopted last summer. Supervisor Michael Conlin claims the local law does [...]

Byline: Chad Sokol May 31--The Spokane County commissioners addressed Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich's salary on Tuesday, although they didn't give him the raise he's been asking for. Instead, the commissioners voted [...]

April 19--Indiana University has reversed changes that made hundreds of employees newly eligible for overtime pay last year. The changes were originally made to comply with new federal overtime regulations [...]

Byline: Mark Sommerhauser April 11--Two Republican state lawmakers signaled Tuesday that they'll push to fully repeal the state's prevailing wage, a minimum pay requirement for workers on public construction projects. [...]

March 28--CHARLESTON -- Here are some other bills the Senate passed on Monday and sent to the House. SB 69 creates a Sexual Assault Victims' Bill of Rights, among them: [...]

March 18--The state Senate passed a $25 billion version of the state budget this week that could lead to a few good things. At the same time, it omits at [...]

March 14--KINGWOOD -- Salaries for Preston County's incorporated towns are set by local laws and are public record. Residents of all 10 towns -- Albright, Brandonville, Bruceton Mills, Kingwood, Masontown, [...]

Byline: Molly Beck March 14--A Whitnall School Board member is seeking to recoup money from state superintendent candidate Lowell Holtz for allegedly doing campaign work on the district's time. Quin [...]

Byline: Molly Beck March 13--A Whitnall School Board member is seeking to recoup money from state superintendent candidate Lowell Holtz for allegedly doing campaign work on the district's time. Quin [...]

Byline: Jim Provance March 01--COLUMBUS -- A newly introduced bill would do away with Ohio's mandate that publicly financed projects pay higher union-scale wages and instead would give local governments [...]

Feb. 20--AMMAN -- The Cabinet on Monday approved the mandating reasons for a draft by-law on controlling the salaries of public employees and referred it to its Legal Committee for [...]

Jan. 27--The results of an ongoing federal Department of Labor investigation into Fair Labor Standards Act and other wage violations in Bloomington are listed below. As part of the labor [...]

Byline: Matt Steiner Jan. 09--Longevity usually means higher pay, but that's not the case with El Paso County's commissioners, three of whom will be starting their first terms Tuesday making [...]

Byline: Denise Smith Amos Dec. 07--In the past five years, 66 of the 68 sworn police officers working in Duval County Public Schools left their jobs, the police union says. [...]

Nov. 13--REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION Historic racetrack and complex for sale in Scarborough Scarborough Downs and its 483 acres stretching from Route 1 to Payne Road are for sale. Fresh [...]

Byline: Irit Avissar Nov. 09--In the wake of Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI), Israel Discount Bank (TASE: DSCT), and Union Bank of Israel (TASE: UNON), Bank Hapoalim (TASE: POLI) today presented [...]

Byline: Molly Beck Sept. 15--The state's chief of schools is proposing to 'level the playing field' among school districts by giving extra money to schools in rural areas who have [...]

Byline: Vicki Hyatt Aug. 12--The business community in Haywood is scrambling to understand the implications of the new federal regulations on overtime compensation that become effective Dec. 1. The U.S. [...]

Byline: Drew Dixon Aug. 09--Massachusetts became the first state Aug. 1 to prohibit employers from asking prospective hires about their salary histories until after they make a job offer that [...]

Byline: Andrew Dowd July 20--The Eau Claire County Board voted shortly before midnight Tuesday to adopt a local law that will require companies to pay their employees more than minimum [...]

Byline: Jane M. Von Bergen May 19--Cynthia Figueroa is trying to figure out how to handle the new U.S. Department of Labor overtime regulations announced Wednesday that will take effect [...]

Byline: Tali Tsipori April 21--After working at Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI) for 12 years, including 10 years in top management, deputy CEO Prof. Daniel Tsiddon (60) is resigning. He attributed [...]

Byline: Hope Lecchi April 12--The Sedalia School District 200 board of Education met Monday night and approved several measures that focused on the future of the district. Board members voted [...]

Byline: James Mayse March 02--A House committee approved a bill Tuesday that would increase the level of pay for state Commercial Vehicle Enforcement officers, although some committee members said they [...]

Feb. 11--The Riverview Psychiatric Recovery Center is so short-staffed that its workers are forced to work overtime. This is unfair to the people who work at the Augusta hospital, and [...]

Byline: Lilach Weissman Nov. 01--The Israeli cabinet this morning approved another amendment to the Minimum Salary Law, which came into effect earlier this year. Under the amendment, the minimum monthly [...]

Byline: Dee J. Hall March 29--Wisconsin's Republican-run Legislature is poised to eliminate an 80-year-old requirement that workers on local and state government building and road projects be paid a prevailing [...]

Byline: Betsy Z. Russell March 24--BOISE -- The Idaho House has approved a teacher-pay bill that calls for spending $125 million more on teacher salaries over the next five years. [...]

Byline: Charly Haley March 14--After violating a federal labor law, the Alerus Center in Grand Forks recently owed back wages to four people, according to documents from a U.S. Department [...]

Byline: Claudia Vargas Feb. 02--When Mayor Nutter signed an executive order last year requiring certain contract workers doing jobs for the city to be paid at least $12 an hour [...]