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The federal minimum wage for tipped workers—mostly servers in restaurants but also some workers in hotels, nail salons, carwashes and other industries—has been stuck at $2.13 an hour since 1991. Employers expect customers to make up the difference between the $2.13 and the federal minimum wage with their tips.
How would you get by in New York City earning $3 per hour? For Sangeeta Richard, a domestic worker from India, a little more than $3 an hour was all she had to support herself while working for a prominent consular officer in one of the most expensive cities in the world, according to recent news reports.
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Church officials have defrocked a United Methodist pastor from central Pennsylvania who officiated his son's gay wedding in Massachusetts. The Rev. Frank Schaefer of Lebanon had already been suspended.
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A Norwegian airline registers its aircraft in Ireland, “rents” flight crews based in Thailand covered by the labor laws of Singapore and then applies for a foreign air carrier permit from the United States. Unfortunately, this is not the start of a bad joke but a new business model being peddled by Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA.
A $3,500 diamond ring was dropped off at a Salvation Army red kettle in South Florida on Wednesday.The ring, wrapped in yellow notepad paper, was placed in a kettle at a Pinecrest Publix Super Market in south Miami-Dade.
On Tuesday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka joined the leaders of the International Trade Union Confederation and the European Trade Union Confederation in urging the United States Trade Representative (the office responsible for negotiating trade and globalization deals) to leave government decisions on drug pricing out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
One mega-millionaire down, one to go.While a 56-year-old Georgia women celebrates her sudden fortune, the person with whom she will share a $648 million Mega Millions jackpot remains a mystery.
The U.S. Senate passed the House bipartisan budget agreement (64–36) last night, sending it to President Barack Obama, who has signaled he supports the package.
A former firefighter deliberately started a deadly blaze that destroyed dozens of homes in early September, California authorities alleged Wednesday.
The arrest of an Indian diplomat who allegedly submitted fraudulent documents to import a babysitter at an illegal wage to the United States has sparked an unusual spat between the two countries.
