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Wages: The lowest hourly rate in the country was $7.50 an hour. The highest hourly rate in the country was $13.40.
Workers who have been laid off, like those at the Kmart in Chicago, were still offered the chance to work on a part-time basis or take an hourly wage hike at the Wal-Mart in Lake Forest and Sam’s Club in Aledo.
The Chicago area is one of eight states that pay below the federal poverty level, and Chicago, the nation’s sixth-largest city, is one of just a handful of U.S. cities that pay above $15 an hour.
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said last week that the city’s minimum wage will increase to $13 per hour as of Nov. 15, 2010, but that its total hours will카지노 사이트 remain the same, including all workers who make the minimum wage.
The city’s largest employers, those with at least 200 employees, also are also in the forefront apronxof efforts to raise minimum wages.
The owners of the National Golf Course in nearby Belmont Park, which employ between 500 and 700 employees, have agreed to implement a 1 cent per hour wage raise starting in December 2010, and the owners of two nearby golf clubs, the Forest Hills Country Club and the Albertson Lake Golf Club, where between 500 and 700 employees, have agreed to make the first of three small wage increases beginning in January 2011.
A handful of other workers at other retailers, as well as many high-end manufacturing operations and restaurants, are also on the hook for paying their workers $15 or more a hour.
„This is an example of an employer refusing to abide by minimum wage laws, while they raise costs through wage increases at their own retail stores,“ said James Williams, senior director of the labor studies program at the American Federation of Labor.
Haley said the state’s $14 an hour minimum wage does not cover workers‘ minimum health care costs, nor does it cover the cost of the two-year apprenticeship programs that some companies like Wal-Mart provide to employees. „That’s why the $13 minimum wage is unacceptable, and I urge all the business community and state to find better ways to make this happen,“ Haley said.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told workers at Kmart, a Chicago retail 바카라giant, last week that the city’s minimum wage would increase to $13 an hour by Nov. 15.
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