Minimum Wage
Panelists suggest updates for nation’s basic minimum wage, overtime law
March 30, 2018The FLSA still has holes and needs some updating to include workers originally excluded because of race, panelists at a daylong seminar on the act said.
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Restaurant employees resist Trump admin. plan to let bosses keep tips
March 16, 2018The Tip Act, proposed by Democrats, would overturn a Trump Labor Department proposed rule letting bosses keep workers’ tips.
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Comparing Trump administration to alligators is insult to alligators
August 9, 2017Defending the honor of alligators, fighting for minimum wage, challenging corporate Democrats, and more in this edition of The People Speak.
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Missouri activists fight effort to block St. Louis’ minimum wage increase
March 7, 2017About 50 Show Me $15 (the Missouri chapter of Fight for $15) activists and supporters gathered to testify Monday against Republican-backed bills that would block cities from increasing the minimum wage.
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Missouri Supreme Court upholds St. Louis minimum wage increase
March 1, 2017The city will now raise the minimum wage to $10.00 this year and $11.00 in 2018.
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