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Damian Dovarganes/APA new law in California will raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 per hour next year, an acknowledgment from the state’s Democratic leaders that most of the often overlooked workforce are the primary earners for their low-income households. -
Roman Battaglia/JPR NewsThere are hundreds of open positions in Shasta County. With such an excess of openings, a newcomer might wonder how anyone could need a job in the far northern California county. But a closer look at the pay and political dysfunction there shows why so few people are filling those seats.
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As autoworkers' real wages fall, top executives at the Big Three carmakers continue to earn tens of millions of dollars each year — hundreds of times more than the median employee. -
Legislators appear ready to finally give their staff the right to unionize. But a final change would allow new lawmakers to dismiss their predecessor’s staffers.
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Paid Leave Oregon offers up to 12 or 14 weeks of paid time off due to illness, to bond with a new child, or to seek help for domestic or sexual violence. Initial payments for the program are set to go out next week.
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More workers are filing claims with the state alleging employers are retaliating against them for engaging in legally protected activities, such as seeking overtime pay or reporting wage theft or discrimination. The state’s waitlist for investigations and hearings is growing, and few workers have won their claims.
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Legislative aides in Oregon were the first partisan workers of their kind to form a union. It took more than two years to negotiate a contract.
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California lawmakers are pushing a last-minute bill that would extend unemployment benefits to workers on strike.
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U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla and the United Farm Workers union say a recent death in a tomatillo field was due to heat, but a coroner’s report doesn’t back that up.
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The recent on-the-job deaths of a Portland hospital security guard and a Gresham mental health aide have put a fresh spotlight on the violence that many working in health care experience routinely.
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State officials predict there will be bumps along the way, with officials planning weekly public updates.
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Postal workers against closing Medford processing center. Jeremy Schilling is the President of the Rogue Valley chapter of the union, American Postal Workers Union Local 342.
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Some hospitals in Southern California have a nurse vacancy rate of 30%, stressing overworked staff and causing some to leave the industry earlier than they planned.
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A workers comp study says one day above 100 degrees can cause 15% more accidents, costing workers and employers millions. A new advisory panel may help the state improve its work heat rules.
