minimum wage

An initiative was filed Monday in Nevada to increase the minimum wage via the Constitution, eventually to $13 an hour by 2024.
The filing, from some (but hardly all) labor groups and progressives, is designed to erase a current constitutional provision that bifurcates the minimum wage, allowing ...

Heavenly Mountain Resort, Northstar California Resort and Kirkwood Mountain Resort are accepting applications and will host job fairs in November.

The Lake Tahoe resorts, under parent company Vail Resorts, says it will, for the first time, hire teens 15 and over who wish to work on the mountain. Teens can apply for jobs such as cashiers, ski and snowboard school teachers’ assistants, guest services representatives, parking attendants, cleaning attendants, ticket sales and scanning.

In the ongoing legal war over the minimum wage in Nevada, which has been going on for more than a year, those who say the regulations don;t refelect what ...

Dueling motions for summary judgment have been filed in Carson City District Court to end the lawsuit over whether Nevada is letting businesses violate the minimum wage law.Both motions were filed June 12 in the lawsu...

A group of Nevada businesses, including slot bar giant Dotty's and Tilman Fertitta (whose family hates Dotty's), has sued Gov. Brian Sandoval, asking that the minimum wage amendment to the state Constitution be thrown out.
The complaint from these strange bedfellows, which is below, asserts that the...

A senior Oregon lawmaker is proposing that the Democratic-led state raise its minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2018 in a move that would give it the highest statewide minimum pay level in the United States, officials said on Tuesday....

Nevada lawmakers have revived a proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage and ease restrictions that would have made it harder for workers to qualify for overtime pay. Assembly members and senators agreed Sunday to r...

Nevada lawmakers have revived a proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage and ease restrictions that would have made it harder for workers to qualify for overtime pay. Assembly members and senators agreed Sunday to...

A joint legislative conference committee approved a change to Nevada’s overtime and minimum wage law Sunday....

Business groups tell legislators they don’t want minimum wage hike...

What if: You were an orphan at 15 and living with your 17-year old brother in a run-down motel in old downtown Reno; You have few role models, little education, occasional minimum wage jobs; you drink too much, eat lousy food; and Your brother kills a kid on a bicycle while driving drunk and comes to you for help.

"Why didn't you call the police or an ambulance?" you ask

So begins Willy Vlautin's noir novel "The Motel Life." Nevada scholar Patricia Cooper-Smith will facilitate a book discussion Thursday, April 23, at 6:30 p.m. in the Carson City Library Digitorium.

Two proposed constitutional changes to Nevada's minimum wage will not go forward. SJR 6 and SJR 8 would have changed Nevada's constitutionally required minimum wage but both ......

Nevada senators have passed a proposal increasing the state's minimum wage and modifying how overtime hours are calculated. Senators voted 11-9 on party lines to approve SB193 on Friday. The bill ......

A Republican-backed bill to overhaul Nevada’s overtime law and raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour was approved Friday by the state Senate on a party-line vote....

A Republican state lawmaker’s move to raise Nevada’s base wage appears popular, though progressives want more....

So how does the AFL-CIO feel about all of those bills targeting collective bargaining, overtime and the minimum wage?
Here's how -- airing statewide:

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Republicans surprised their Democratic colleagues on Friday by tacking a provision raising Nevada’s minimum wage to $9 an hour to a bill that would repeal a law limiting the regular workday to eight hours.T...

Republicans blindsided Democrats on a Nevada Senate committee Friday when they amended an overtime bill to raise Nevada’s minimum wage to $9 an hour, which would be a 75-cent increase for workers who do not receive employer-paid insurance.....

Republicans have added a surprise minimum wage hike to a bill that would repeal a law limiting the regular workday to eight hours. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Labor and Energy approved an amended version of ......

Backers of a measure to hike Nevada’s minimum wage to $15 an hour said Wednesday the move would elevate workers out of poverty and reduce demands for public assistance, while critics countered it would shrink the availability of entry-level jobs and harm the economy....

A Nevada senator is proposing a constitutional amendment to nearly double the state's minimum wage to ......

A Nevada state senator is attempting to repeal a state constitutional provision setting a basic minimum wage ......

A Nevada bill that would exempt businesses from paying minimum wage to independent contractors earned praise Monday from business owners who say they want the flexibility to hire people on contract. However, critics s...

A bill seeking to define independent contractors in Nevada ran into stiff opposition in a Senate committee hearing Monday with critics arguing it would prevent some minimum wage workers from recouping unpaid wages and help employers avoid taxes....

A Nevada bill that would exempt businesses from paying minimum wage to independent contractors earned praise Monday from business owners who say they want the flexibility to hire people on contract. However, critics said ......

U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez announced Monday the 17 public members who will serve on the new Advisory Committee on Increasing Competitive Integrated Employment for Individuals with Disabilities, a key provision of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.

Selected from more than 280 nominations, Santa Perez, the Advocate Co-coordinator for the People First of Nevada Project of the Nevada Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities, joins the other public members of the committee.

Democrats, modern liberals and progressives often say they’re concerned about income inequality. So, they propose more redistribution: higher taxes on the well-off and higher public subsidies for others.

Adding subsidy increases to their ever-growing regulatory system and other public spending drove total government spending relative to our economy to record post-WWII levels under President Obama. Yet they still want more.

Peter Hennessey seems to have trouble with the word Democratic. Sadly he's not alone in that. It's an affliction that's been going around on the extreme right since the days of Joseph McCarthy. Please note that I'm talking about the extreme right, not the Republican party of the past, which once had a perfectly sane and civic-minded mainstream. I was a registered Republican myself for 34 years, but never had any trouble understanding that Democrat is a noun and Democratic is an adjective. I only have a bachelor's degree, but have no trouble distinguishing between nouns and adjectives.

This is in reference to
1. http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/11/01/2014/amodei-and-minimum-wage
2. http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/10/28/2014/dave-cook-demonstrates-ex...
3. http://carsonnow.org/reader-content/10/25/2014/letter-one-year-obamacare...

These recent articles are a faithful representations of the Party Line. Of course that party line is dead wrong, but at least the writer does a good job presenting it.

When Rep. Mark Amodei voted against raising the federal minimum wage (H R 803, March 15, 2013), I had to wonder what he was thinking. Anyone who understands even a little bit about the economic history of this country knows that voting to keep the minimum wage where it is now is a vote to keep millions of Americans in poverty and dependent upon welfare just to survive.