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Byline: Margaret Talbot PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD RENALDI Billions Served During the pandemic, fast-food workers face risk and rudeness. Since 2009, the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an [...]

Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates is speaking on [...]

Kirkland Lake Gold announced additional business reductions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the temporary suspension of operations at the Holt Complex in Northern Ontario, and a move to [...]

One year ago, Bank of America announced it would raise its U.S. minimum hourly wage to $20 over a two-year period. The first increment to $17 was made in May [...]

In March 2014, Sean Caldwell went to the first Philadelphia rally for the Fight for $15, the national campaign to raise the minimum wage and to help fast-food workers -- [...]

Byline: Catie Clark Washington raised its minimum wage from $12 to $13.50 at the beginning of the year. Some Idaho employers along the border can't compete. In Post Falls, Northwest [...]

Bank of America today announced that it is accelerating the move from its current U.S. minimum hourly rate of pay of $17 to $20 by the end of the first [...]

Uber (UBER) and Lyft (LYFT) said they will spend $60M on a ballot initiative that would essentially exempt them from a proposed law in California that would force ride-hailing companies [...]

Byline: David Wallace-Wells The Democratic field no longer has a climate candidate. Washington governor Jay Inslee, who made global warming the centerpiece of his long-shot campaign for the presidency, announced [...]

Genpact (G), a Facebook (FB) contractor, has increased minimum wages for the content management teams its runs for the social media giant in India, Reuters' Munsif Vengattil and Paresh Dave [...]

Fifth Third Bancorp today announced it will raise its minimum wage to $18 per hour for approximately 4,900 employees beginning Oct. 28. With this increase, Fifth Third will have raised [...]

Goldman Sachs analyst Katherine Fogertey started Jack in the Box with a Sell rating and $69 price target. The analyst sees potential for share loss to McDonald's, Taco Bell and [...]

Byline: Sarah Jones The idea that the federal minimum wage should be raised to $15 has now become so mainstream that (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/2020-democratic-candidates-embrace-a-15-minimum-wage) most Democratic candidates for president have endorsed it. [...]

Byline: Sharon Fisher COEUR D'ALENE In many ways, this city's economic development situation is like Boise's: Rampant growth and a lack of workforce and affordable housing with the added bonus [...]

Byline: The Associated Press A citizens group is launching an initiative drive to raise Idaho's $7.25 an hour minimum wage. The Idaho Press reports that while Idaho lawmakers haven't raised [...]

Byline: Margaret Hartmann A $15 minimum wage. Paid sick leave. Guaranteed healthcare. Free pre-K for all. These are all things Mayor Bill de Blasio has delivered for New York - [...]

Last month, Bank of America announced that it would raise its minimum hourly wage to $20 over a two-year period. The first increment to $17 was made on May 1, [...]

Wedbush analyst Moshe Katri raised his price target for Globant to $90 from $75 as he expects 2019's results to benefit from a combination of ongoing expansion of digital-related project [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins WI Court of Appeals District IV Case Name: Deborah L. O'Brien v. The Travelers Inn, LLC, Case No.: 2018AP1483 Officials: FITZPATRICK, J. Focus: FLSA Violation Minimum Wage [...]

Byline: Eric Levitz Universal health care, tuition-free public college, a giant hike in the federal minimum wage, and a guaranteed federal job for anyone who is involuntarily unemployed are all [...]

Byline: Brian Martucci With four retail branches and one non-public operations center scattered about the north metro, Village Bank isn't a behemoth. But small banks can do big things, proportionally [...]

Bank of America announced that it will raise its minimum wage to $20 per hour over a two-year period. The increase will occur in increments. On May 1, 2019, the [...]

Bank of America Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan says the bank is raising the minimum wage for employees this year and plans to increase it to $20 an hour in [...]

Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google said it will require its contracted and temporary workforce to receive full benefits, including comprehensive health care, paid parental leave and a $15 minimum wage, according [...]

The U.S. Department of Labor announced a proposed rule to revise and clarify the responsibilities of employers and joint employers to employees in joint employer arrangements. The Department has not [...]

McDonald's will no longer take part in efforts to lobby against raising the minimum wage at the federal, state or local level, the fast-food giant told the National Restaurant Association, [...]

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is pressuring Amazon again following a report that detailed 911 call from the company's warehouses and employees experiencing serious mental health crises, Business Insider's Isobel [...]

Costco said on its Q2 earnings conference call that this past Monday, it began its new three-year employee agreement. With the agreement, Costco announced that it's raising its minimum wage [...]

Wedbush analyst Moshe Katri raised his price target for Globant to $75 from $65 ahead of Q4/2018's upcoming earnings release, as he expects 2019's results to benefit from a combination [...]

''Be attentive to the reasons someone might disagree with you,'' says Fanele Mashwama, whose two-person team won the World Universities Debating Championship in 2016. It isn't enough, in other words, [...]

Byline: Rahul Pandita IN THE 2000S, the New York- based illustrator-journalist Molly Crabapple worked briefly as a nude model. She had a certain clarity about it. 'I simply wanted to [...]

The Company expects to open up to 15 to 20 new, full-size stores and an as-yet undetermined number of RSQ-branded pop-up shops during fiscal 2019, in each case assuming appropriate [...]

DA Davidson analyst Tom Forte kept his Buy rating and $2,450 price target on Amazon.com ahead of its Q3 results next Thursday, saying the company's 'profit engines' - advertising, AWS, [...]

Amazon's move to raise the minimum wage it pays its U.S. workers to $15 an hour will have ripple effects, with blue-collar workers throughout the country to benefit as their [...]

Senator Bernie Sanders, in a letter to CEO Steve Easterbrook, asked McDonald's (MCD) to follow Amazon.com (AMZN) and Disney (DIS) in boosting the minimum wage its pays its employees to [...]

DA Davidson analyst Tom Forte kept his Buy rating and $2,450 price target on Amazon after its decision to increase its minimum wage to $15 per hour starting November 1st. [...]

Bernstein analyst Brandon Fletcher notes that Amazon has announced a company-wide minimum wage increase to $15/hour effective at the beginning of November. Though most retailers announced some variation of store [...]

Shares of retail stocks, both online and brick and mortar, are under pressure at midday on Tuesday after Amazon (AMZN) announced it was raising its minimum wage to $15 and [...]

Loop Capital analyst Anthony Chukumba views the Amazon.com's announcement of a minimum wage hike to $15 per hour as a 'savvy move' that should result in lower fulfillment center employee [...]