Minimum wage law

National Minimum Wage Bill 2019-20

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Monday, February 10, 2020
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House of Commons Library

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  • House of Commons Library

    The National Minimum Wage Bill 2019-20 was introduced by Paula Barker MP following the Private Members' Bills Ballot on 9 January 2020.

  • Bill summary

    A Bill to make provision about the national minimum wage; and for connected purposes.

  • Further reading

    Progress of Bill

    Private Members' Bill ballot : 9 January 2020

    The National Minimum Wage: rates and enforcement, House of Commons Library Briefing, 11 April 2018

    Parliamentary material on the minimum wage 2018-

    Websites

    National Minimum Wage and Living Wage, DBEIS

    Help for Members of Parliament and their staff

    In addition to writing and updating published papers as bills go through Parliament, the House of Commons Library can assist Members of Parliament and their staff with individual enquiries about bills, particularly on the policy background.

  • The Public Bill Office (PBO) supports public bill committees.

National Minimum Wage

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Friday, February 7, 2020
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Latest news on the National Minimum Wage Bill 2019-20

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  • Latest news on the National Minimum Wage Bill 2019-20

    The next stage for this Bill, Second reading,is scheduled to take placeon Friday 26 June 2020.

  • This is a Private Members'Billand waspresented to Parliament on Wednesday 5 February through the ballot procedure.
  • If the text of the Bill is not yet available, please contact its sponsor, Paula Barker MP, for more information.
  • Summary of the National Minimum Wage Bill 2019-20

    A Bill to make provision about the national minimum wage; and for connected purposes.

U.S. Wage Growth Remained at 3.2 Percent for Fourth Quarter 2019

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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Wages and salaries, Economy, Macroeconomics, Wage Growth, Wage, Employee relations, Employment, United States labor law, Minimum wage law, Minimum wage

These dimensions include employment growth, job switching, wage growth and hours worked.

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  • These dimensions include employment growth, job switching, wage growth and hours worked.
  • The wage growth is the rate of change in wages in that time period.
  • The wage growth is calculated from the 12 month moving average of wage growth.
  • To see detailed results from the ADP Workforce Vitality Report for the fourth quarter of 2019, including data broken down by region, firm size, industry, gender, and age visit http://workforcereport.adp.com/ .

Teamsters Port Division Reacts To Preliminary Injunction Regarding Assembly Bill 5's Application To California Truck Drivers

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Friday, January 17, 2020
United States labor law, Taxation in the United States, Minimum wage law, Wage theft, Independent contractor, Truck driver, Human activities, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Economy, Employment

The following is a statement from Julie Gutman Dickinson, local counsel to the Teamsters Port Division:

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  • The following is a statement from Julie Gutman Dickinson, local counsel to the Teamsters Port Division:
    "We are not surprised by the Court's decision to issue a preliminary injunction blocking application of AB5's ABC test to California truck drivers; however, the decision does not impact port and rail drivers' fight for their employee rights and an end to systemic wage theft.
  • The bottom line is that in every port trucker misclassification/wage theft case to date, misclassified California port truck drivers have been found to be employees NOT independent contractors under the California Borello test.
  • The Court's preliminary injunction has no practical effect on the employee status of these driversthey are clearly employees.
  • "In over 500 wage claim cases at the California DLSE, drivers have uniformly been found to be employees NOT independent contractors under the Borello test.

Traliant Announces Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Training

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Thursday, January 9, 2020
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MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., Jan. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Traliant, an innovator in online sexual harassment training , today announced the availability of a new training course on the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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  • MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif., Jan. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Traliant, an innovator in online sexual harassment training , today announced the availability of a new training course on the Fair Labor Standards Act.
  • The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a federal law that establishes standards for minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping and child labor.
  • Traliant was founded by industry veterans from some of the world's most successful compliance training companies to meet the challenge of transforming compliance training from boring to brilliant.
  • Backed by Martinson Ventures, Traliant delivers award-winning, bite-sized training on an eLearning platform that enables fast and easy customization.

Teamsters Joint Council 7 Supports AB5, Denounces Lawsuit By Uber And Postmates

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Tuesday, December 31, 2019
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"It's comes as no surprise that companies like Uber and Postmates would challenge a law that brings fairness to workers and puts an end to wage theft.

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  • "It's comes as no surprise that companies like Uber and Postmates would challenge a law that brings fairness to workers and puts an end to wage theft.
  • "Misclassification has always been illegal and AB5 makes it harder for employers to continue the illegal practice of misclassifying their employees as independent contractors.
  • Misclassified workers lose out on pay they've earned, benefits, Social Security and workers' compensation in the event of an injury.
  • Teamsters Joint Council 7 represents 150,000 members and retirees in Northern California, the Central Valley and Northern Nevada.

Workers in Majority of U.S. States to See an Increase in Minimum Wage in 2020

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Friday, December 27, 2019
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Seattle has the highest minimum wage rate at $16.00 per hour for large employers and $15.00 for small employers.

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  • Seattle has the highest minimum wage rate at $16.00 per hour for large employers and $15.00 for small employers.
  • However, most employers and employees would be subject to the higher federal minimum wage rate of $7.25 per hour.
  • Those states following the step-up approach tend to have higher minimum wage rates than those taking a cost-of-living adjustment approach.
  • The minimum wage for tipped employees is $4.45, and is scheduled to increase to $5 per hour on July 1, 2020.

Recent developments of social security contributions and minimum wages in the euro area

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Saturday, December 28, 2019
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The behaviour of labour costs can be significantly affected by country-specific changes in social security contributions and minimum wages.

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  • The behaviour of labour costs can be significantly affected by country-specific changes in social security contributions and minimum wages.
  • Measures of labour costs, such as compensation per employee[1], can at times be affected by measures related to employers social security contributions.
  • If substantial enough, changes in the social security contributions made by employers can drive a wedge between different wage measures (see Chart A, panel a).
  • [2] Since the beginning of 2019, a gap has again opened up, which relates mainly to a significant drop in social security contributions in France, while in Germany, Italy and Spain employers social security contributions have increased.
  • The reduction in employers social security contributions in France was related to a legislative change implying a permanent reduction in employers social security contributions, which replaced the tax credit for competitiveness and employment (crdit dimpt pour la comptitivit et lemploi CICE).
  • Chart A Employers social security contributions and wage growth in the euro area (panel a: annual percentage changes; panel b: percentage points)
  • Minimum wages exist in 15 of the 19 euro area countries.
  • [3] In July 2019 the minimum wage paid in the euro area ranged from 430 (Latvia) to 2,071 (Luxembourg) per month.
  • Minimum wage growth has so far been substantially stronger in 2019 than growth in overall wages and salaries per employee.
  • An index for the euro area compiled on the basis of available country data[5] shows that, after only a 1% increase in statutory minimum wages in 2018, minimum wages increased by 4.6% year on year in the first half of 2019 (see Chart B).
  • Chart B Growth in wages and salaries per employee, as well as minimum wages, in the euro area (annual percentage changes; annual data)
  • Growth in the level of minimum wages in the first half of 2019 was broad-based across countries.
  • [6] For the first time since 2008, all euro area countries with minimum wages increased the statutory national minimum wage level in 2019, with increases on the previous year ranging from 1.5% (France) to 17.9% (Spain) (see Chart C, panel a).
  • Chart C Minimum wage developments and their role in growth in wages and salaries per employee (panel a: annual percentage changes; panel b: percentage points)

Fifth Third Bancorp to Raise Minimum Hourly Wage to $18

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Tuesday, August 6, 2019
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Fifth Third Bancorp today announced it will raise its minimum wage to $18 per hour for approximately 4,900 employees beginning Oct. 28.

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  • Fifth Third Bancorp today announced it will raise its minimum wage to $18 per hour for approximately 4,900 employees beginning Oct. 28.
  • With this increase, Fifth Third will have raised its minimum hourly wage by 50% over the past two years.
  • That increase contributed to a 16% year-over-year reduction in employee turnover in 2018 in those jobs most affected by the minimum wage.
  • Notably, the new $18 minimum hourly wage will primarily benefit employees in retail branches and operations support functions such as customer contact centers.

WHSmith called on to pay all workers a fair wage

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Friday, June 14, 2019
Wages and salaries, Minimum wage law, United Kingdom labour law, Economy, Employee relations, Catholic social teaching, Living wage, Labor, Living Wage Foundation, Minimum wage, National Living Wage, WHSmith

BEIS Committee Chair Rachel Reeves calls on WHSmith to pay all workers a fair wage

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  • Rachel Reeves MP, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, has called on WHSmith to commit to paying all workers a fair wage by signing up to the National Living Wage Foundation.
  • Correspondence from WHSmith confirmed that the company has not been accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.
  • In a letter to the BEIS Committee, WHSmith Managing Director Carl Cowling was only able to say the majority of staff in stores start on the National Living Wage or National Minimum Wage.
  • Such disparities in remuneration are impossible to justify and WHSmith should pledge to pay all workers fairly and sign up to the National Living Wage Foundation.