By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO – Every March, management of Japan’s blue-chip firms meet with unions for wage talks across industries that set the tone for employees’ pay in the new …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haiti’s government on Monday hiked the minimum wage by as much as 54% following weeks of demonstrations by garment workers who say their wages are not enough to …
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Media outlets are continuing to message small-dollar donors to the Freedom Convoy whose identities were leaked to the public after a hack of crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. The personal information of …
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By Arriana McLymore NEW YORK, NY – Higher labor costs during the pandemic-plagued holiday season may erode the profits of United Parcel Service, the world’s biggest package delivery firm, which …
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BERLIN – Some employees of Deutsche Bank’s Postbank will stage a strike on Monday to raise pressure on management to meet their demands for higher wages in the face of …
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Last year, we experienced The Great Resignation, which hit the hospitality industry especially hard. In November 2021, a record 4.5 million Americans quit their jobs — and 1 million of those were restaurant …
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By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO -As Japan kicked off annual wage talks on Tuesday, policymakers sought to downplay the chance rising raw material prices could be stoking “bad …
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TOKYO – The head of Japan’s biggest business lobby said on Tuesday that companies must determine wages depending on their own situation rather than in a uniform manner as a …
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BERLIN – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday that his Social Democrats (SPD) were pushing ahead with their election promise to raise the national minimum wage to 12 euros …
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By Kantaro Komiya and Daniel Leussink TOKYO – Japan’s policies aimed at raising workers’ wages are unlikely to trigger a virtuous cycle of growth and wealth distribution that will support …
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By Essi Lehto HELSINKI – More than 50,000 Finnish industrial workers plan to go on strike in January in a wage dispute, potentially shutting down plants in mining, metals and …
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Over half of the states in the U.S. will institute a minimum wage increase in 2022, according to a report. A total of 26 states will raise the minimum wage …
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AMSTERDAM – Inflation in the Netherlands is set to remain elevated until at least 2023 as a labour shortage drives up wages during an economic boom, the Dutch central bank …
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By Ceyda Caglayan and Canan Sevgili ISTANBUL – Restaurants and other businesses in Turkey’s service sector say they will jack up prices next year to cover the cost of a …
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LONDON – British employers offered annual pay settlements of 2.2% in the three months to the end of November, up slightly from three months earlier but still well below the …
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By Terje Solsvik OSLO – Capacity constraints in the Norwegian economy increasingly hamper business growth, pushing up private-sector wages, a quarterly central bank survey of companies showed on Tuesday. While …
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TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed on Monday to ensure workers’ wage hikes through tax breaks to protect the economy from the impact of rising global inflation and …
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MEXICO CITY – The Mexican government has agreed to increase the daily minimum wage next year by 22%, Mexican industry associations said on Wednesday, marking another step by President Andres …
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SARAJEVO – About 7,000 miners will return to work at Bosnia’s seven coal mines after securing a deal with the government and state-owned Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) power utility on wages …
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PRAGUE – The Czech government has approved a rise in the minimum gross monthly wage by 1,000 crowns to 16,200 crowns ($739) from January, Deputy Prime Minister Karel Havlicek told …
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BUDAPEST – Hungary’s government and private sector employers have agreed on the main terms of a nearly 20% hike in the minimum wage and pay for skilled workers for the …
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TRENTON – Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck announced today that a telecommunications contractor will pay $175,000 to resolve allegations that the company defrauded the state while denying its workers …