Editorials Jun 22, 2019
Companies need to consider rising minimum wages not as a threat to their bottom lines but as an opportunity to secure the manpower they need and improve their productivity by making necessary investments.
National | YEN FOR LIVING Jun 7, 2019
Japan facing increased pressure to hike minimum wage, but business leaders give mixed response
by Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku
Last month, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy recommended that the government draw up detailed measures to bring the nationwide average minimum wage up to ¥1,000 per hour as soon as possible. According to an article in the May 15 Asahi ...
Business Jun 27, 2017
Seattle's $15 minimum wage has cost jobs, new study indicates
Seattle's $15-an-hour minimum wage law has cost the city jobs, according to a study released Monday that contradicted another new study published last week. A University of Washington team studying the law's effects found that the law has boosted pay in low-wage jobs since it ...
Business Dec 9, 2016
Trump set to fill labor portfolio with fast-food exec who opposes unions, base pay hikes, Obamacare
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to add another wealthy business person and elite donor to his Cabinet, with fast-food executive Andrew Puzder as labor secretary. Puzder heads CKE Restaurants Holdings, the parent company of Carl's Jr., Hardee's and other chains. In 2010, he published a ...
World / Politics Jun 17, 2016
Sanders tells followers he will work with Clinton to change party, push wage hike, defeat Trump
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Thursday in an address to his supporters that he will work with Hillary Clinton to transform the Democratic Party, adding that his "political revolution" must continue and ensure the defeat of Republican Donald Trump. Sanders said in a capstone ...
Business Mar 29, 2016
California's $15-an-hour minimum wage could help workers, cost jobs
A political deal to raise California's minimum wage to a nation-leading $15 an hour could help some workers cope with the state's crushing cost of living but also deprive other low-wage earners of jobs altogether, economists said Monday as Gov. Jerry Brown and other ...
Business / Economy Jan 2, 2016
14 U.S. states to see minimum wage hike in '16, bringing national hourly average to just over $9
As the United States marks more than six years without an increase in the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, 14 states and several cities are moving forward with their own increases, with most set to start taking effect on Friday. California and Massachusetts ...
Editorials Dec 11, 2015
The Abe administration is on the right track in trying to raise the minimum wage — not only would it be of benefit to the working poor, but consumer spending would also grow.
World / Social Issues Nov 11, 2015
Fast food ranks protest for $15 an hour, take aim at election candidates
Workers from McDonald's, Taco Bell and other chain restaurants protested in cities around the country Tuesday to push fast food companies to pay them at least $15 an hour. The protesters also had a message for presidential candidates: Support the cause or lose their ...
Editorials Sep 19, 2015
Raising the minimum wage in each prefecture will help achieve broad-based pay increases, but could also cause difficulties for small and medium-size businesses.
Business / Economy Sep 2, 2014
President Barack Obama renewed his push for Congress to raise the U.S. minimum wage Monday in a buoyant accounting of the economy's "revving" performance, delivered on behalf of Democrats opening their fall campaigns for the midterm congressional elections. "America deserves a raise," he told a ...