undocumented.alien
24.07.08, 20:50
Dobra wiadomosc dla Polaków w USA.
Juz od dzisiaj macie gwarantowana podwyzkę. Wasza stawka godzinowa wzrasta z
5.85 do 6.55 !
Federal minimum wage rises to $6.55 today
The increase, from $5.85 to $6.55 per hour, is the second of three annual
increases required by a 2007 law. Next year's boost will bring the federal
minimum to $7.25 an hour.
Workers like Walter Jasper, who earns minimum wage at a car wash in Nashville,
Tenn., are happy to take the raise, but will still struggle with the higher
gas and food prices hammering Americans.
"It will help out a little," said Jasper, who with his fiancee support a
family of seven, and who earns the minimum plus commissions when customers
order premium car-wash services.
"You get desperate, because you can't really pay for everything," said Gladys
Lopez, 51, a garment worker from Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, who makes military
uniforms and has earned the federal minimum for 18 years.
David Heath, owner of Tiki Tan in College Station, Texas, said the increase
will force him to raise prices for his monthly tanning services by about 12
percent. Tiki Tan had been paying its employees $6 per hour.
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