One in eight congressional staffers make less than $42K. Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that starting in September, the House of Representatives will be implementing minimum…
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President’s Minimum Wage Rule Challenged in Federal Court
Case claims Congress alone can creating laws that “bind the public.” Following President Biden’s executive order from April 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a final rule…
Read MoreLabor Department Issues Rule on Workers’ Tips
Employers who take employees’ tips subject to penalties regardless of repetition or wilfullness. Last week, the Department of Labor announced a final rule that allows the department to…
Read MoreInterior Adjusts Pay for Wildland Firefighters
Guaranteed $15 minimum wage for frontline firefighters. The Department of the Interior announced that it would be increasing the base pay for all wildland firefighters employed by the…
Read MorePresident Increases Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors
Increase to $15 per hour will be effective by next March. On Tuesday, President Biden issued an executive order that raises pay rates to $15 per hour minimum.…
Read MoreSenate Votes on COVID-19 Stimulus Amendments
Minimum wage increase no longer a part of the legislation. After a 51-50 vote on Thursday that required Vice President Harris to cast the deciding vote, the Senate…
Read MoreSenate Considers Minimum Wage Proposal
Incremental tax penalty proposed for large corporations. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon pitched an alternative to raising the minimum wage in a statement released on Friday. “As chair…
Read MoreSenate Parliamentarian Blocks Minimum Wage Hike
House moves forward with initial plan anyway. On Thursday evening, the Senate’s Parliamentarian, the individual in charge of maintaining the voluntary rules put in place by the Senate,…
Read MoreHouse Plans Vote on COVID Bill Friday
$1.9 trillion legislation intended to stimulate the economy. The House Rules Committee published the new coronavirus relief bill text on Wednesday. It includes three new categories of spending…
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