One in five recent immigrants lived below the poverty line in Canada in 2022, and most of them were in "deep poverty," according to a report Thursday from Statistics Canada.

The Nova Scotia government says workers will benefit from the province's largest ever increase to the minimum wage later this ...

Nova Scotians will see the largest minimum wage increase in the province’s history, says the provincial government. The rate ...

SEIU Local 2 janitors ratified a new collective agreement yesterday by an overwhelming majority. The 300 cleaners, who are employed by GDI Integrated Facility Services in the Halifax Regional ...

Earned wage access allows employees to get early access to their paychecks. Earned wage access is not a loan, so interest and loan fees are not normally charged. Employers sign up for earned wage ...

Missouri business groups have filed a lawsuit to try to stop a voter-approved law that will raise the state’s minimum wage and require employers to give workers paid sick leave California voters ...

When Karen McKendry heard Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston's comments that "We must take the 'no' out of Nova Scotia" and pursue more natural resource development, she had a different interpretation of ...

Most GDI cleaners in the HRM make between $15.60 and $16.45 an hour and are living paycheck to paycheck. The minimum wage in Nova Scotia is $15.20 as of April 1, 2024. “Two thirds of workers do not ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s Treasury secretary nominee, said Thursday that he would not support raising the minimum wage. Bessent, if confirmed, would not have the authority to raise ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia has officially implemented a regulation on the global minimum tax in 2025. This policy mandates that corporate taxpayers, who are part of a multinational corporate group, ...

Local governments in China have been raising minimum wages, viewing a boost to the spending power of the country’s middle- and low-income groups as a top priority in efforts to stimulate ...