Don’t be soothed by Walmart pay hike
Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, announced last week that it will raise the wages of approximately 500,000 of its employees by lifting its base wage to $10 by 2016…
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Walmart Says It Will Raise Some Workers’ Pay as It Reports a Rise in Profit and Shoppers
Walmart, the United States’ largest employer, said Wednesday that it would increase wages for a half-million employees as it reported its first rise in shopper traffic in more than two…
Hong Kong Court Convicts Employer in Abuse of Domestic Worker
HONG KONG — She claimed that her employer kicked her and beat her with a vacuum cleaner rod. She said that she was given only one bottle of water a…
Hong Kong court finds housewife guilty of abusing young maid
Law Wan-tung, a married mother of two teenage children, pleaded not guilty to 20 charges of assault, criminal intimidation and failure to pay wages to the then 23-year-old maid, who…
Thomas Lee, Georgia Man Suspected Of Killing 5, Arrested At Mississippi Bus Station
A Georgia man charged in the deaths of his wife, three of her family members and a friend was arrested at a bus station in Tupelo, Mississippi, authorities said Monday….