Rob Mellion, President and CEO of the Bristol County Chamber of Commerce, testified on Beacon Hill Tuesday against raising the minimum wage and employer-paid family and sick leave.
In his State of the City address last week, New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell outlined many of his goals for the City in 2016, one of them being a pay raise for some City workers.
Mitchell says he wants the City to be able to provide it's lowest paid employees with a living wage...
A boost in pay will occur in the state of Massachusetts on New Years Day when the state’s hourly minimum wage increases from $9 to $10 an hour.
We’ve been going through a pretty rough economy these last few years, but you’ve been working hard, so why not ask for that raise? It may or may not work, but if you do decide to ask (and you should), you should be prepared to ask for it in the right way.