
Albertsons announces Appreciation Pay program to increase pay for hourly staff
Albertsons Companies today announced an Appreciation Pay program to all non-union and union frontline associates. Structured to recognize the hard-working team members on the front lines, the company’s e-commerce More...

Top Debt Collector Myths
Debt collectors can be quite intimidating. If you’ve ever had an account go to collections, you’ve experienced this firsthand. Ironically though, much of their potency in this regard is owed to several misconceptions More...

Finding Your Footing: How to Overcome a Shaky Start as an Entrepreneur
As an entrepreneur, there are a hundred and one things that you need to focus on at once, so it can be tough to keep things steady in the beginning. If you’ve made a shaky start don’t stress, it isn’t impossible More...

Rashida Tlaib calls for a minimum wage of $18 to $20
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) called for a minimum wage of $18 to $20 on Sunday, an increase over the $15 minimum wage bill passed by House lawmakers Thursday. Rashida Tlaib Tlaib spoke at an event in Detroit More...

Election 2020: Bernie Sanders cuts hours for staff to get, keep them at $15 per hour
Capitalism 1010 descended on the Bernie Sanders campaign. Sanders pushes for a $15 minimum wage and has announced this weekend he will cut staffers’ hours so that they can effectively be paid a $15-an-hour More...

The most massive wage theft case; US union seeks $100 million
Unpaid wages or wage theft is a very normal thing these days. It is surprisingly found in both the developing as well as in the developed countries all across the globe. Sometimes wage theft can be seen occurring More...

Florida: Competitive Edge Landscaping order to pay back wages for overtime, cheating staff out of bonuses
After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Competitive Edge Group Inc. – operating as Competitive Edge Landscaping and based in Longwood, Florida – will pay $44,280 More...

New York minimum wage hike blamed for worst restaurant job loss in 20 years, rising costs
The New York Post reported on an online survey from the New York City Hospitality Alliance, which represents NYC restaurants, a survey which found a spike job losses were due to the minimum wage hike to $15 per More...

Why the $350 Billion Warehousing Business Will Change Forever in 2019
With Amazon recently raising its minimum wage for all US workers to $15/hour, the memory of their warehouse workers’ well-publicized horror stories is only just beginning to fade. Yet, in the wake of these PR More...

Poverty levels drop again: California, Florida the worst, Texas drops to decade low
On Wednesday, the Census Bureau released its 2017 annual report on the poor, providing details on 40 million to 45 million Americans estimated to be living below the federal poverty level. The official poverty More...

Rep Barbara Lee condemns ‘disgraceful’ SCOTUS ruling against unions as a ‘terrible ruling’
Congresswoman Barbara LeeImage/US Congress Congresswoman Barbara Lee released the following statement yesterday condemning the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31: “The Supreme Court decision More...

Alt-left chaos has ruined University of Missouri: deficit nears $50 million, layoffs now over 180 jobs
The University of Missouri has announced more layoffs as part of its attempts to survive the near-$50 million budget shortfall, part of an ongoing crisis that has gripped the school since it was overtaken by leftist More...

Nancy Pelosi ignores facts on jobs, consumer confidence in astounding video
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi misled a group of reporters during a press briefing on Thursday as she downplayed the current unemployment rate and said what really matters is consumer confidence, completely More...

Best Side Gigs for College Students
Most college kids can’t rely on their parents to cover all the expenses of earning a degree. Understandably, undergrads might want to earn an income to tackle student loans following graduation. However, the biggest More...

Bernie Sanders attacks Disney, calls for minimum wage hike, socialists call for a ‘shaming’ of the company
Over the weekend, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders took on another big opponent: Disney. Sanders joined unions pushing a ballot measure to require a minimum wage of $15. “The struggle that you are waging here in More...

Holiday Spending Shows that Politics Can’t Destroy Christmas
Despite a roller coaster ride through Washington in 2017, holiday spending shows that even politicians can’t destroy the spirit of Christmas. Early statistics show that 2017 holiday spending was up 3.8% over the More...

Home prices soar, doubling the rate of wage growth
U.S. home prices climbed a robust 6.2 percent from a year ago, amid strong demand from would-be buyers and a shrinking supply of properties for sale. Standard & Poor’s said Tuesday that its S&P CoreLogic More...

How will the 2018 minimum wage increases affect US businesses?
Many low-paid Americans will begin 2018 with a boost to their pay packets thanks to increases to the minimum wage – but will this spell bad news for businesses? From January there are 18 states and 20 cities that More...

Top Worker’s Compensation Questions And Answers
The situation presents itself that you have been injured on the job. You are in severe pain due to the injury, and the last thing you really want to deal with is a whole bunch of legal jargon and technicalities. More...

Study Finds Minimum Wage Hike May Hurt Lowest-Paid Workers
Workers in Seattle may soon have a harder time getting their resumes through to recruiters. A new study out of the University of Washington may upend the minimum wage fight in Seattle. The highly-anticipated study, More...