Category: work and pay
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New Bill Proposes $25 Minimum Wage—But It’s Still Not Enough
A New Push for a $25 Minimum Wage There’s a new proposal in Congress that aims to raise the federal minimum wage to an unprecedented level of $25 per hour. If this legislation passes, it would mark the first increase in the federal rate since 2009, when it was set at $7.25 an hour. While…
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Lunchtime Fury: Quit or Conquer?
Retail Worker’s One-Minute Lateness Sparks Online Debate Over Workplace Policies A young retail employee has ignited a fiery online discussion after revealing they received a formal reprimand for clocking back in from their lunch break a mere one minute past the designated return time. The incident, which saw the worker disciplined via email for returning…