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America’s Worst Companies To Work For

Image via CrunchBase For the second year in a row, 24/7 Wall St. has identified America’s worst companies to work for. While company management can improve employee satisfaction, most of the companies...

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Being In The Minority Can Cost You And Your Company

Wall Street (Photo credit: benontherun.com) By Shankar Vedantam The racial wage gap in the United States — the gap in salary between whites and blacks with similar levels of education and experience —...

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McDonald’s to Employees: Get a (Second) Job

McDonald’s (Photo credit: gnta) By Tom Philpott Since I last knocked heads with The Atlantic’s David Freedman over Big Food and its potential to “end obesity”—see his piece, my response, his #odd#...

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I Work for Burger King at $7.40 an Hour — Here’s What It’s Like and Why Fast...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Claudette Wilson Claudette Wilson is 20 and works two jobs in the fast food industry, one at Burger King and one at a pizza place. She is on her feet, sometimes for 12...

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America Is No-Vacation Nation

By Jodie Gummow Americans as a society generally don’t take vacations. While many of us would love to travel, we live in an economy where job security is rare and most of us live in fear that if we...

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Join The Booming Dollar Store Economy! Low Pay, Long Hours, May Work While...

Exterior rendition of a Dollar General location (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Dawn Hughey had worked at Dollar General for just four months when she was named manager of a store in the Detroit suburbs in...

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Temporary Work, Lasting Harm

(Photo credit: JAXPORT) By Michael Grabell, Olga Pierce, and Jeff Larson This was it, he told his brother Jojo. He would finally be able to pay his mother back for the fender bender, buy some new shoes...

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Minimum wage fight erupts: Landmark $15/hr. wage sparks legal showdown

By Josh Eidelson (photo credit: Washington Times) Following a county judge’s ruling dramatically narrowing the scope of an airport town’s landmark $15 wage law, labor groups plan to take their case to...

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Big Fast Food Opposes Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage

By Ned Resnikoff A federal judge in Seattle heard arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the city’s $15 minimum wage on constitutional grounds. The International Franchise Association (IFA) — an...

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Getting Paid To Relax On Memorial Day? You Probably Aren’t A Low-Wage Worker

By Dave Jamieson Each year, on the last Monday of May, millions of Americans ditch work to hit the beach, light up the barbecue or catch a ballgame in honor of those who died serving our country. To...

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