Archive for September, 2009
Union Members Agree To Wage Freezes In KCK (KCTV 5 Kansas City)
By admin on September 30th, 2009
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Union members have agreed to wage freezes for two years in Wyandotte County.
Minimum wage claims the biggest lies of campaign (Irish Examiner)
CLAIMS the minimum wage will be slashed if the Lisbon Treaty is passed have been branded the biggest lies of the campaign by Foreign Minister Michel Martin.
Baking for equality: Campus Women’s Organization fights the gender wage gap (The Pitt News)
Who knew a bake sale could protest gender discrimination? Pitts Campus Womens Organization sold brownies, cupcakes and cookies yesterday to raise awareness for the gender wage gap symbolically charging women 75 cents for every mans dollar on baked goods.
Booby trap
By admin on September 28th, 2009
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Creditors threatening with wage garnishment
Wage garnishment is a legal procedure applied by a creditor to get his amount back from a debtor from his monthly earnings. The creditor gives loan to a debtor in his hour of need and when he demands it back, the debtor denies paying it. In spite of demanding various times, the debtor refrains from attending the debtor’s calls or ignores him completely. This puts the creditor in a horrible situation. The creditor sues the debtor in the court and the court obliges the creditor by issuing a notice stating the debtor’s employer to deduct a specific amount as wage garnishment from his monthly or weekly earnings to the creditor against his debt. Wage garnishment is a real threat from the creditors. As an employer receives an order from the court, he cannot deny reducing the amount from his employee’s salary who is a debtor. In case the employer denies reducing the amount, he will have to face serious consequences for disobeying the court’s law. However, this act also saves the employment of the debtor. This is so because as per law, an employer cannot fire an employee when he is undergoing wage garnishment. But, there is no rule that the employee cannot quit his job. He is free to do so. In such circumstances, the creditor has to trace his new whereabouts and once again begin the wage garnishment process all over. The creditors have all the authority to apply for wage garnishment in case the debtor fails to pay the debts. In case the creditor needs to apply for the same, he must obtain a writ order from the court. However, it is up to the court, eventually to decide the amount to be garnished from the debtor’s wages. The court does not take sides; it decides on the facts presented and calculates the need of the wage garnishment. Generally, it is noted that the creditors point is considered effective and a writ order is released. It is not advisable to convince the creditors to give away the idea of garnishment as the debtor has a history of denying debts. The creditors use the wage garnishment as a threatening tool to collect the amount due from the debtor. The wage garnishment is the appropriate way of threatening and as it is legal it cannot be denied on the face value. However, the wage garnishment can be stopped if necessary, but is a difficult job. The court procedures once issued as a writ order cannot be reversed conveniently.
More Eden Prairie schools staffers agree to wage freeze (Eden Prairie Sun-Current)
By admin on September 26th, 2009
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Eden Prairie schools has concluded negotiations with representatives of faculty and staff bargaining groups, with 11 of 12 groups agreeing to freeze their wages for at least for the next year. Eight of those groups agreed to the deal two weeks ago.
ALU-TUCP to file wage hike petition in 2 weeks (The Freeman)
By admin on September 23rd, 2009
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The Associated Labor Union-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines is set to file a wage hike petition in Central Visayas in two weeks but the petition would reportedly be lower than that of the Cebu Labor Coalition.
Australia 2Q Average Enterprise Wage Rises +3.9% Vs +4.6% 1Q (Nasdaq)
CANBERRA -(Dow Jones)- Australian annual wage rises under all enterprise agreements struck in the second quarter of 2009 averaged 3.9%, down from 4.6% in the first quarter, the Department of Employment said Wednesday.
Low-Wage Workers Are Often Cheated, Study Says – New York Times
By admin on September 21st, 2009
Slack Attack: Fed Faces Test on Inflation – Wall Street Journal
By admin on September 21st, 2009
Union approves wage freeze to keep jobs – United Press International
Hungary employers reject minimum wage rise proposal – Forbes