Minimum Wage Increases With New Year in San Jose, Oakland and Richmond
Minimum wage workers in 3 of the Bay Area's largest cities are set to get a raise in the New Year.
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Minimum wage workers in 3 of the Bay Area's largest cities are set to get a raise in the New Year.
About two dozen protesters demanding a nationwide $15-an-hour minimum wage were arrested Tuesday after blocking a busy Oakland intersection, authorities said.
A federal jury in San Francisco has found Wal-Mart failed to pay hundreds of truck drivers in California the minimum wage and has awarded the drivers $54 million in damages.
Minimum wage workers in San Jose can expect to see their hourly rates goes up to $15 in 2019 under a plan approved Tuesday evening by the City Council.
Uber drivers in Britain should get paid vacation days and guaranteed minimum wage, a tribunal said Friday in a ruling that the company will appeal.
The Palo Alto City Council will consider an ordinance Monday evening that would adjust its minimum wage ordinance to provide a $15 hourly rate by 2019.
The Berkeley City Council voted unanimously Friday to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 in two years.
Workers in a handful of Bay Area cities including San Francisco will be getting a pay raise starting Friday.
The minimum wage in San Francisco goes up 75-cents Friday, hitting $13 an hour for the city's lowest paid workers.
Florida Governor Rick Scott is attempting to lure California companies to Florida by highlighting his state's low minimum wage.
Florida is going to start airing radio ads criticizing California's decision to raise the minimum wage.
San Francisco is an increasingly expensive place to run a small business, and some owners are saying they've had enough.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law Monday giving California the nation's highest statewide minimum wage of $15 an hour by 2022.
California lawmakers have approved the nation's highest statewide minimum wage of $15 an hour to take effect by 2022.
A legislative analysis says raising the minimum wage in California to the highest statewide level in the nation would eventually cost taxpayers an additional $3.6 billion a year.
Gov. Jerry Brown is hailing as a matter of economic justice a proposal to make California the first state to raise the minimum wage to $15.
California lawmakers and unions have reportedly struck a tentative deal to gradually raise the state's minimum wage to $15 without putting the issue before voters.
A faction of California's largest union has begun submitting signatures for a ballot initiative asking voters to raise California's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2021.
The mayors of San Francisco and Oakland met with workers Tuesday to express their support for a statewide proposition that would increase the minimum wage by $1 each year beginning in 2017 and continue for the next five years.
Thousands of people who work in San Jose who earn minimum wage thought they would be getting a raise on January 1st. But a lower Consumer Price Index means their wages will stay at $10.30 an hour next year.
The University of California's plan to raise the minimum wage for all workers systemwide took effect Thursday, the first of three incremental raises expected to bring wages to at least $15 an hour by 2017.
The minimum wage for University of California employees and contract workers will increase to $15 an hour by fall 2017.
California state Sen. Mark Leno is pushing a plan to raise the state's minimum wage to $13 an hour, but some critics say the wage increase would be a "job killer".
It's the end of an era for a fixture on city streets and transit stations. San Francisco Chronicle newspaper vendors are packing up their last editions all because of a rising minimum wage.
The changes have already been put in place for cooks, janitors and security guards at the company's Menlo Park headquarters.
