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Bristol taxi drivers 'working 12 hours a day, six days a week' demand minimum wage

Drivers working for taxi app Bolt are self-employed contractors

Bristol Post

Costa Coffee announces pay rise for 16,000 workers

It is the latest firm to increase pay ahead of the minimum wage increase

Wales Online

Kansas plan keeping low wages for disabled angers advocates

Kansas legislators are considering a proposal that many disability rights advocates say could help employers who pay disabled workers less than the minimum wage, bucking a national trend

The Independent UK

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When does the minimum wage go up across the country?

Millions of low-paid workers across the country will soon receive more money from their wages

Manchester Evening News

Restaurant workers are taking aim at the ‘other NRA’

Fair-wage groups are organizing workers after a national report linked the money raised by food training certifications to anti-minimum-wage lobbying efforts.

Chicago Sun-Times

This group gets left-leaning policies passed in red states. How? Ballot measures

The Fairness Project has won campaigns to raise the minimum wage and expand Medicaid in nine states dominated by Republicans. Next is abortion. But there's growing pushback from state lawmakers.

WEKU

Real Housewives star apologises and begs to return after working minimum wage job

Real Housewives of Potomac star Katie Rost has pleaded with show bosses to allow her to return and said she has apologised for claiming they 'exploited my image'

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Google excludes thousands of workers from benefits, report says

Google’s minimum wage and benefits for contractors are withheld from thousands of its U.S. contract workers, a new report from a union alleges.

Tribune News Service

Pink reveals 11-year-old daughter will earn minimum wage on her upcoming Trustfall world tour

The singer, who kicks off her tour in June, was able to teach her child the art of negotiation

Evening Standard

Strikes could force First Bus off the road in Scotland

Dispute to hit Glasgow and Aberdeen bus depots as workers demand more than minimum wage

Insider UK

UC Riverside should investigate economics research center, faculty say

LOS ANGELES — Some University of California faculty members are raising the alarm about a research center affiliated with UC Riverside that they say uses corporate funding for reports "attacking proposals to improve the lives of working Californians."

Los Angeles Times

Universal raises hourly wage to $17, setting pace for parks

Universal Orlando plans to raise its starting hourly minimum wage by $2 to $17, becoming the wage leader among major theme parks in central Florida

The Independent UK

Anas Sarwar backs devolution of minimum wage as 'phase 2' of Labour Government

EXCLUSIVE: The Scottish Labour leader said a Keir Starmer-led government at Westminster would create a new floor for employment rights - after which more powers could be devolved to Holyrood.

Daily Record

Universal Orlando ups starting pay to $17 an hour as Disney wage talks go on

Universal Orlando is raising its minimum wage from $15 to $17 an hour starting June 4, boosting the theme park company’s base pay to $2 more than Walt Disney World’s current rate.

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Tribune News Service

Editorial: Inmate workers deserve some compensation

More than 150 of Allegheny County’s 1,500 prisoners work at institutional jobs. They wash dishes, cook, sort laundry, serve food, clean housing units, work in warehouses and perform various other jobs that, one way or the other, must be done. Inmate laborers generally work eight hours a day, seven days…

The Independent UK

‘Marine-style hazing’, poverty wages and lifelong injuries: The sad, secret life of cheerleaders

Though it looks glamorous, the life of a professional cheerleader for the NFL or NBA is often demanding, dangerous and demeaning. Holly Baxter reports on the experiences of the lowest-paid people on the field

Daily Mirror

Tory MP Jonathan Djanogly and wife face complaints from four more fed-up housekeepers

One housekeeper at Jonathan Djanogly's home alleged she was paid less than the minimum wage to work for the millionaire while another claimed to be owed at least £450

Belfast Live

National Minimum Wage: Belfast workers urged to check their pay as 6,800 miss out

“We want Belfast workers to get the pay they are due"

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The Independent UK

‘Marine-style hazing’, poverty wages and lifelong injuries: The sad, secret life of cheerleaders

France 24

Poisoned and hyperaggressive seals attack Cape Town tourists

The recent introduction of new denominations of naira in Nigeria causes a chaotic rush to get the old notes out of circulation by the end of January. Also, Ivory Coast has raised its minimum wage as the country faces a cost-of-living crisis. And Cape Town tourists are warned not to…

Irish Mirror

Labour Senator Mark Wall: 'Time to pay apprentices a fair wage'

'Apprenticeships play a crucial role in Ireland’s economy. We simply can no longer continue to undervalue them.'

Tribune News Service

How many minimum wage jobs do you need to work to rent in Dallas?

In both Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, it takes more than three full-time minimum-wage incomes for a person to comfortably afford the typical one-bedroom rental home, according to new research from Zillow Group.

Wales Online

Mum who needed benefits to feed family has surgery and makes fortune on OnlyFans

Meagan used to work minimum wage and still needed help to feed her two children. After plastic surgery she makes £80,000 a month online

Reuters

Brazil's finance ministry to back minimum wage increase starting in May -sources

Brazil's finance ministry sees room for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to raise the minimum wage as of May at a cost of up to 5 billion reais ($975 million) to the government, two sources in the ministry told Reuters on Friday.

Fortune

Rent is so expensive that minimum-wage workers need 3 roommates or 4 jobs to afford a two-bedroom apartment

"Renters have been squeezed by record-fast rent growth while incomes haven’t kept up."

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