Tag: minimum wage
A lawsuit brought against Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club alleges that dancers are being stiffed of minimum wage and tips. The New York Post reports that the claim says that dancers are illegally classified as “independent contractors” rather than as employees, which prevents them from making minimum wage. The suit also argues that dancers are missing […]
On Thursday morning, as thousands across America were still sleepy from protesting the non-indictment of officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, another set of protestors prepared to march for liveable wage. In solidarity with fast food workers in 189 cities all over the country, nearly a hundred people gathered outside Manhattan’s City […]
For all the media’s coverage of tech people who work 100 hours a week and high-powered executives who brag about working 24/7, it’s pretty overblown. It should come as no surprise that poor people actually get much less sleep on average than those in higher income brackets. Working multiple jobs, irregular schedules and lack of personal transportation are only […]
As a part of state budget negotiations, New York legislators and Governor Andrew Cuomo have agreed upon a plan that would gradually raise minimum wage over the next three years. The minimum would extend from $7.25 to $8 next year, $8.75 at the beginning of 2015, and $9 at the beginning of 2016, and would […]
