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Southwest Airlines plans to raise minimum pay to $15 an hour for about 7,000 employees.
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Trump cancels pay raise due federal workers in January
President Donald Trump has told Congress he is canceling a pay raise that most civilian federal employees were due to receive in January, citing budgetary constraints.
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Read More »Wal-Mart rolls out new payment app in Maryland
Two ex-Exelon workers denied severance pay
A federal judge has denied two former Exelon Corp. employees’ quest for severance benefits, finding that they were not eligible because they were hired by an “affiliate” of the company that took over the power plants where they worked.
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Read More »SEC moves toward mandate on CEO-worker pay gap
WASHINGTON — Public companies would have to show the difference in pay between their CEOs and ordinary employees under a proposal advanced by federal regulators. The Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-2 Wednesday to propose a rule that would compel ...
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Read More »Rules boost pay for home health care workers
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has approved new rules that extend minimum wage and overtime protections to home health care workers. The rules give a long-awaited boost to nearly 2 million workers who spend their days helping the elderly and ...
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Read More »Richest 1 percent earn biggest share since ’20s
WASHINGTON — The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it’s been since the Roaring ’20s. The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country’s household income last year — ...
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Read More »‘Compensation’ is money, not time, appeals court holds
In a decision that could prove costly to businesses and workers’ compensation insurers, a Maryland appeals court has found that a law passed a dozen years ago does not mean what those groups thought it did.
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Read More »Supreme Court won’t stop judges from getting raises
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won’t stop some federal judges from getting cost-of-living increases promised to them by Congress but never paid, a move that could end up increasing the salaries of all federal judges. The high court on Monday ...
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