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By Elizabeth Walztoni, Bangor Daily News Staff A bill setting a state minimum wage for Maine farmworkers was signed into law on June 10. Agricultural workers have long been exempted from the labor ...
Ohio employees will see slightly increased paychecks in 2025, when the new minimum wage takes effect. Ohio's minimum wage will increase on Jan. 1, from $10.45 to $10.70 per hour for non-tipped ...
The Pennsylvania House passed a bill that would move the needle on the state’s minimum wage after 15 years of fighting for increases. The bill, which takes an incremental approach to raising the ...
The campaign to raise the minimum wage, which blew a key deadline in July, vowed to keep gathering signatures and put the issue on the November 2025 ballot in Ohio. Canvassers and organizers have ...
Ultraconservative Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill with Sen. Peter Welch to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
The Pennsylvania House passed a bill that would move the needle on the state’s minimum wage after 15 years of fighting for increases.
The proposal is designed to appeal to Republican senators, and comes after Pennsylvania Democrats tried unsuccessfully for ...
Everett’s minimum wage is set to increase on July 1, following a community-led initiative to increase it from the current $16 ...
This week, the D.C. Council voted to pause a wage increase related to Initiative 82, the 2022 ballot measure that ...
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a heavily amended restaurant wage bill this week while issuing a warning to local municipal leaders, whose action it would take to make any changes reality.
Bill set for vote would raise RI minimum wage from $15 an hour this year to $16 an hour next year and $17 an hour in 2027.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Saturday said the majority of the 120,000 minimum wage earners set to benefit from the government’s P20-per-kilogram rice program are based in the Bicol Region.