Wage Protection Planned for Home Care Workers

With his administration under pressure from environmentalists to reject the Keystone XL pipeline project, President Barack Obama plans to unveil a package of separate actions next month focused on curbing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. At closed-door fundraisers held over the past few weeks, the president has been telling Democratic party donors that he will unveil new climate proposals in July, according to people who have attended the events or been briefed.

Opponents of a minimum wage increase imagine an economic reality very different from the one millions of American workers experience.

WASHINGTON (AP) — It seems like a simple proposition: give employees who work more than 40 hours a week the option of taking paid time off instead of overtime pay.

President Obama claimed for increase in minimum wage to $9 per hour. Facebook won a lawsuit in Germany over users privacy rights. Vodafone will dismiss 620 employees in its Spanish department. India’s Current Account Deficits might reach $87.9 billion in 2012.  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says it's inexcusable that home health care workers who care for the elderly and disabled can be paid less than minimum wage, and he's going to change it....

Inquiring minds are reading the complete text of President Obama's State of the Union Address to see what distortions, lies, and hypocrisy it contains. I found a nice Orwellian set of paragraphs smack in the middle of his speech. And while Government can’t fix the problem on its own, responsible homeowners shouldn’t have to sit and wait for the housing market to hit bottom to get some relief.

California's labor commissioner accuses ZipRealty of failing to pay minimum wages and overtime to hundreds of agents throughout the state.California's labor commissioner has sued real estate brokerage ZipRealty Inc.