Last week, Lufthansa rejected union demands for a 5.2% wage increase over the next 12 months.
Trade unions are demanding a 65% wage increase, about double the inflation rate, it reports.
The wage increase has, in large part, morphed into consumption, mostly in private households.
Each told a story of how the last minimum wage increase touched their businesses.
The Labour-controlled council says the living wage increase will not reduce funding for services.
Members of Samwu and other unions walked out after being denied a 15% wage increase.
Many economists agree that the wage increase would not have a significant effect on prices or employment levels.
The House just passed a minimum wage increase, the first in 10 years, and the Senate will soon follow.
The musicians are holding out for more than the 2-percent wage increase that Radio City Productions has offered them.
Further, Burtless points out, the across-the-board wage increase would affect small-business owners equally.
How high must profits go before a modest wage increase isn't raised as a specter of impending corporate doom?
Advocates say a minimum wage increase can lead to even broader economic benefits.
Just how many small firms will turn to technology to replace jobs in the face of a wage increase isn't clear.
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As a result, they have gone without a wage increase for years.
The real wage increase is actually stunning, more than 22.1% in 2006.
Some 2, 500 teachers could be forced out of their classrooms unless their union agrees to a 2% wage increase instead of a promised 4%.
The previous pay offer included a 1% lump sum for 2012, a 3% wage increase in 2013 and a 4% pay rise in 2014.
But Roger Tan, secretary-general of the Garment Manufacturers Union of Cambodia, insists that incidents of abuse are isolated and that calls for a wage increase are unreasonable.
It is this massive wage increase that may have the most serious repercussions in the coming years and seriously damage Venezuelan competitiveness on the Latin American market.
Depending on the size of the wage increase, Western retailers might pull business away from Bangladesh, though wages there would have to quadruple to top those in China.
The president's proposal is unlikely to pass, yet many business owners nonetheless feel threatened having seen the minimum wage increase in nearly every state in the past six years.
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Rep. MILLER: Well, we have some early initiatives which leader Pelosi talked about - the 6406, which is immediately passing the minimum wage increase that people haven't had for ten years.
The best estimates from studies since the early 1990s suggest that the 11% minimum wage increase scheduled for this summer will lead to the loss of an additional 300, 000 jobs among teens and young adults.
Republicans had long opposed the minimum wage increase pushed by Cuomo, the Assembly's Democratic majority, and a group of Democratic senators who caucus separately from the party and share control of the Senate with Republicans.
In his veto message, Mr. Christie called the Democrats' bill "lopsided" in not recognizing the concerns of small businesses paying for the wage increase and said that it would "jeopardize" New Jersey's efforts to recover economically.
With the vote on a minimum wage increase set to come before Congress early in January, she thinks tax incentives for small business could pass. (She says she plans to vote for an increase in minimum wage either way).
Professors Even and Macpherson are able to infer from these differences in treatment that the three-stage minimum wage increase led to a reduction in teenage employment of 6.9% (about 98, 000 jobs) in the nineteen states affected by all three stages.
In addition, when deciding which low-wage worker to retain following a minimum wage increase, employers may opt for a teenager, who may have high potential, over an adult who, because he still earns a low wage, likely has much lower potential.
The rare Republican rebellion Tuesday coincides with a notable shift to the left by Mr. Cuomo, who is advocating a minimum-wage increase and a package of women's rights laws this year in addition to the new firearms restrictions passed last month.
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