If keeping your payroll as lean as possible is your goal, you may be able to take advantage of minimum wage exceptions. Employees under age 20 can be paid a “youth minimum wage,” as low as $4.25 per hour, for the first 90 consecutive calendar days. Another...
With President Obama’s proposal to increase the minimum wage for Federal workers to $10.10 an hour, the subject of paying a living wage has arisen throughout the corporate community. Back in 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt took a harsh tone when he asked...