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Sunday, September 22, 2024

U.S. wage gender gap widens for first time in a decade

Edwin J. Viera, reporter/producer, Connecticut News Service, a bureau of Public News Service.    New research shows the gender wage gap has widened. The U.S. Census Bureau found full-time working women make 82.7 cents for every dollar a man makes, down from 84 cents for every dollar in 2022. Connecticut echoes the trend statewide, particularly in the public sector workforce. Jamila K. Taylor, […]
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Fast food jobs increase in CA despite rising minimum wage

  Suzanne Potter, reporter/producer, California News Service, a bureau of Public News Service.   New data shows fast food jobs have been on the upswing in the four months since the minimum wage in the sector went from $16 to $20 an hour. The Bureau of Labor Statistics found California added 11,000 new fast-food jobs from April to July and showed increases […]
Friday, July 19, 2024

CA workers encouraged to know their rights for hot days

  Suzanne Potter, reporter/producer, California News Service, a bureau of Public News Service.    California shattered heat records left and right this month and temperatures are forecast to be 10 degrees above normal for several days. Therefore,  the state wants to remind workers of their right to shade, free cold water, and rest breaks. Also, employers are required to train […]
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

US Supreme Court to decide controversial Starbucks case

  By Eric Tegethoff Reporter/Producer, Washington News Service, a bureau of Public News Service.   A case before the U.S. Supreme Court could have implications for the country’s growing labor movement. Justices will hear oral arguments in Starbucks versus McKinney today to determine if the bar should be raised for the National Labor Relations Board when it seeks to impose court-ordered injunctions […]
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Temporary election workers wanted in Burbank

Burbank is gearing up for its primary and general elections in the first half of the new year. As part of the preparation, a news release was sent out expressing a need for temporary election workers. Also, a notice about this is on the city website. There are three types of positions:Election Worker, Ballot Drop-off Center Worker; and a Canvassing […]
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Talk of the town: Yahoo begins layoffs of 2,000 employees

  Some of those hard working employees at the Internet giant Yahoo are getting shown the door today. Two thousand employees are being sacrificed”…as part of an overall plan to reshape the Company for the future,” Yahoo says in an SEC filing, according to deadline.com. No word yet on how many of the Yahoo employees working in Burbank will get […]