by Beth Holmes | Nov 9, 2021 | Companies, News
Macy’s will be sweetening the pot for new hires, but not swiftly. While business news is calling the current state of affairs a worker shortage, it isn’t. If you try to buy a coffee and it costs $3, but you only want to spend $1, is that a coffee shortage?...
by Admin | Oct 25, 2019 | Companies, News
Two years ago in 2017, Target took an apparent stand for its workers, announcing that it would raise its internal minimum wage to $15 an hour for all employees before the end of 2020. It was a popular move, earning the company a place on best-employer lists and...
by Admin | Dec 28, 2015 | Companies, News
The Seattle City Council voted on December 14th to allow for-hire drivers working for companies like Uber and Lyft to unionize within the city, though those companies are against the idea. Ride-hailing apps like Uber are a growing part of the economy, with huge...
by Admin | Apr 28, 2015 | News
Economics, very broadly speaking, is something of a balancing act. Supply and demand is the perhaps the most immediately apparent example, but wage earning is significant as well – and becoming ever-more prominent. Low employee compensation leaves a company with...
by Admin | Mar 25, 2015 | Companies, News
Recently, McDonald’s sued the City of Seattle to prevent them from treating individual restaurants as part of a larger business when it came to increasing the minimum wage. In case you missed it, last year the city voted to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. It’s...
