Wages

Only 2% of workers in the fashion industry earn a living wage. The CEOs of two competing fashion brands, Nisolo and Able, realized that the best way to shed light on the industry’s worst labor practices is to ask a single question: What’s your lowest wage? They teamed up to start the #LowestWageChallenge — asking fashion brands to share the...

The effects of the coronavirus may reduce Social Security payments for millions soon eligible to retire. A Connecticut congressman has been leading the charge to change this. Your Social Security payments have been determined in part by a formula that includes your earnings at age 60, two years before you’re eligible.  Connecticut Congressman John Larson said for people turning 60…

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Anaheim-based Discount Tire Centers must pay an employee $2,606 in back wages for denying him sick leave after his health care provider advised that he self-quarantine while awaiting a family member’s COVID-19 test results, federal investigators announced Wednesday. The investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found that Discount Tire Centers failed to pay the...