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Increase Santa Fe's Minimum Wage

Santa Fe's minimum wage will be the highest in the nation as of March 1st. The city announced Thursday 19th January that the minimum wage will increase to $10.29 starting March 1st. That puts Santa Fe ahead of San Francisco, where the minimum wage is $10.24 per hour. Employees who get tipped can be paid a base rate as little as $2.13 an hour, but the city living wage ordinance says that employers must guarantee that base pay and tip must add up at least the city's minimum wage.

Connecticut 1st State with paid sick leave

Connecticut is the first state of the nation to mandate paid sick leave for hundreds of thousands of service workers. On June 8, 2011, Governor Daniel Malloy signed the Act into law. Beginning on January 1, 2012 the Bill requires certain employers with fifty or more employees in the state to provide service workers with forty hours of paid sick leave a year. Read more about Connecticut Paid Sick Leave.

Changes Minimum Wage in 2012: San Francisco breaks $10 barrier

	2011	Increase	2012
Arizona	$7.35	+$0.30	$7.65
Colorado	$7.36	+$0.28	$7.64
Florida	$7.31	+$0,36	$7.67
Montana	$7.35	+$0.30	$7.65
Ohio	$7.40	+$0.30	$7.70
Oregon	$8.50	+$0.30	$8.80
Vermont	$8.15	+$0.31	$8.46
Washington	$8.67	+$0.37	$9.04
San Francisco	$9.92	+$0.32	$10.24

On January 1st of next year, San Francisco will make history. The city will become the first location in the U.S. to have a minimum wage higher than $10. Minimum wage workers in 8 states could see their paychecks grow starting January 2012 thanks to the automatic annual increase based on the inflation rate. In addition to the 8 states above only Nevada is expected to announce an adjustment in rates coming weeks. Missouri announced in October that the state's minimum wage will stay at $7.25 in 2012.

Click on the state links above to get more information about the minimum wage per state. Click on the next link for an overview of the minimum wage per state, or for an overview of the minimum wage for tipped workers per state.

Obama Backs Overtime Home Care Aides

President Obama came out in support Thursday, 15 December 2011 of a long awaited labor law change, that would entitle nearly 1.8 million home care aides to overtime pay and a guaranteed minimum wage. Read more about the Overtime Provisions for Home Care Aides.

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Bill Could End Overtime IT Workers

If Congress passes a new bill (S. 1747), overtime pay may be over for a lot of IT workers. The legislation would expand the definition of the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) exemptions for employees entitled to overtime pay. The law currently only exempts certain IT workers - see in the chapter Overtime Exemptions under Computer professionals - the new bill would "exempt any employee working in a computer or information technology occupation". This would greatly expand the number of exempt computer professionals.

Court Reviews Overtime Pay Drug Reps

The U.S. Supreme court announced on 28 November 2011 that it will review court ruling that says that pharmaceutical sales representatives can't bill their employers for overtime pay. The case could affect the pay of ten of thousands of people. A lower court ruled that the sales reps are not entitled to overtime pay because they fall under the outside-salesman exception to overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Read more at Overtime Pay.

Wisconsin Collective Bargaining Law

Wisconsin - The largest public employee unions, representing about 50,000 workers, decided Sept. 22nd against seeking recertification votes in their fight over union rights. The collective bargaining law pushed by Governor Scott Walker has taken effect Wednesday June 29th. The law requires public workers to contribute more to their health and pensions, which amount to an average pay cut of 8 percent. The bill also strips public workers of almost all their collective bargaining rights, allowing them to negotiate only on wages. The law exempts police officers and firefighters. Small labor groups are still opting to hold recertification votes.

The Rich get Richer

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates tops the Forbes 400 rich-list - 81 year old hedge fund manager George Soros cracked the top 10 - Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg added the most dollars to his net worth.

Collective Bargaining Rights New Jersey, Ohio, Massachusetts

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday June 28th signed legislation that increases pension and health contributions paid by public workers and removes the issue from collective bargaining for four years. Other states have been seeking to force public workers to pay more for benefits and limit collective bargaining rights, like Wisconsin - see article above. In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich in March signed a law limiting bargaining rights, which will not be implemented pending the November vote. The Massachusetts House passed a bill in late April stripping public sector unions of the right to bargain over health care.

Media Moguls Pay Beats Bankers Salary

It's not the Wall Street banker that saw sky-rocketing compensation packages in 2010, it's the media mogul. As media companies began to shake off the aftershock of the economic downturn, the compensation packages of moguls began to swell, sometimes doubled. See for yourself and compare the salaries of bankers and media moguls.

Domestic Workers Rights: CA to follow NY?

In July 2011 New York passed the nation's first Domestic Worker Protection Law. California could be the next state to do that, but the Domestic Worker's Bill of Rights, AB 899, is since August 26 in suspense, meaning that it is held in the Senate Appropriations Comittee. The bill is modeled after the New York legislation and would give in-house workers like housekeepers and nannies basic labor protections like overtime pay, guaranteed sleeping time, five-day workweeks, as well as meal and rest breaks. Find out more about the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.

New Rules Paying Tipped Workers

The U.S. Labor Department issued new regulations for the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that affect tipped workers. These regulations became affective on May 5. The FSLA now requires employers taking advantage of the federal tip credit - maximum of $5.12 per hour - to inform a tipped worker about the minimum wage rules. The amendments also address tip pooling. See the changes in more detail at Minimum Wage Tipped Workers Regulations.

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World Leaders Salaries

What are world leaders making? Among the top earners are President Fischer of Austria, President Obama en the Italian President Berlusconi. Among the lowest paid are President Hu Jintao of China, President Ahmadinejad of Iran and Pope Benedict. And in between are many others - check and compare their pay at World Leaders Salaries.

Women are Worth Less for Senate

The Paycheck Fairness Act aimed at stamping out wage discrimination based on workers' sex failed Wednesday 17 November 2010, because too few senators voted to move forward with the legislation.

Flight Attendants Pay

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Is being a flight attendant your dream job, or did it lost its glamour definitely, since Jet Blue attendant Steven Slater was so fed-up with demanding, rude passengers that he pulled the lever that activates the emergency-evacuation chute and slid down, making a dramatic exit not only from the plane but, one imagines, also from his airline career. What did he leave behind? What is the pay of flight attendants? Click the previous link to find out per state, company or metro.

Support the Employee Free Choice Act

Do you want unions to organize workplaces by obtaining signed cards from a majority of employees instead of going through a secret-ballot election? If you do, then ask your Senator to support the Employee Free Choice Act. You can find a ready to send letter in the next link on the website of AFL-CIO. You're not alone. Check out this video: Artists4WorkersChoice.

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