Pay raises for salaried workers flat in Hub
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Workers struggling to make ends meet saw little relief in their paychecks this year, and may not see much next year either.
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The push-and-pull over the 2009 federal pay raise is underway.
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Shift in the U.S. workforce is no longer just about factory workers.  All kinds of jobs that pay middle range -- $17 an hour, or about $35,000 a year -- are vanishing.
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Nevada workers now must earn nearly 17-dollars an hour in wages to be able to afford to pay for rent and utilities for a typical two-bedroom apartment in the state.
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The Federal Aviation Administration told its employees yesterday that they would receive a 3.08 percent pay raise and a geographic-based increase that will average about 1 percent plus an additional raise based on individual job performance.
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The number of Americans lining up to  claim an initial week of jobless aid rose less than expected  last week, according to a report on Thursday that the Labor  Department said was unaffected by recent hurricanes.
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Congress won't give you one--the federal minimum wage is still $5.15. Although 22 states require employers to pay more (and six more may do so in November), activists in Chicago and elsewhere are pressing for a "living wage" to help the working poor.
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Annual growth in workers&#39; pay slowed unexpectedly in the three months to September to its lowest this year, official data has shown, providing more
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Alec Klein will be online to discuss his article in a Washington Post series about the changes roiling the middle of the American workforce -- the disappearance of many jobs that pay near the national average of $17 an hour, with such benefits as health care and pensions.
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Women employees of a Cumbria NHS trust are awarded Â£300m after a fight for equal pay, Unison says.
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Don't worry about fair. Just pay as little as you can.
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Within the next few weeks, workers  are likely to find a little something extra in their paychecks.  No, sorry ... it's not money. Those fat envelopes will be  stuffed with the paperwork that goes with new benefit plans.
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The nation's lowest-paid workers will soon find extra money in their pockets as the minimum wage rises 70 cents to $5.85 an hour on Tuesday, the first increase in a decade.
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Bangladeshi workers get paid as little as five pence an hour to make clothes for Tesco, Asda and Primark, says a report.
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About 1.8 million federal employees would receive a 1.7 percent increase in their basic pay and a 0.5 percent average increase in their locality pay next year under a plan that President Bush sent to Congress yesterday, administration officials said.
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Union leaders and advocates for the poor are uniting behind an effort to raise the state's $6.75-an-hour minimum wage for the first time since 2001 and to tie future increases to the inflation rate, a move that would make Massachusetts only the fourth state in the nation to establish that link.
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U.S. worker salaries are growing much  more slowly than inflation, raising concerns about consumers'  ability to repay loans and credit cards bills at a time when  borrowing is near all-time highs.