Word: wage
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...passel of pending legislation would affect almost every aspect of the relationship between management and workers. If some leading congressional Democrats and their labor-union allies are successful, companies will have to pay a higher minimum wage, provide a Government-mandated menu of health-care benefits for all workers and offer unpaid leave and guaranteed job security to employees who leave work temporarily when they become parents. Other bills would set up new rules governing unionization, plant closings and on-the-job safety...
Nearly 3.5 million Americans could be directly affected by a bill that would raise the minimum wage nearly 40%, to $4.65 an hour, by 1990. Supporters note that the minimum has been $3.35 since 1981. Opponents argue that such a law would discourage firms from hiring unskilled young workers...
...businesses queasy is Kennedy's plan to require them to pay at least 80% of employees' insurance premiums for hospital care, physicians' fees and diagnostic tests. Says John Sweeney, president of the 850,000-member Service Employees International Union of the AFL-CIO: "The bill promises relief for low-wage earners, part-time workers and taxpayers who have had to pick up the tab" for medical costs. But the bill would lay a new $20 billion-a-year burden on businesses, which currently are not required to offer health-care benefits...
...Mexican side of the border from Texas to California. Born of a 1965 Mexican development plan, the maquiladoras have become employment mainstays of that country. An estimated 1,400 U.S. firms, including General Motors, General Electric and Honeywell, use the plants to take advantage of a Mexican minimum wage that at current exchange rates is less than 40 cents an hour. Japanese companies like Sony, Sanyo Electric and Hitachi have followed suit, and the resulting boom is transforming border towns like Juarez into bustling industrial centers...
During the past off-season, teams offered less to their first-year players. B.J. Surhoff, a rookie catcher who had a lot to do with the Brewers' 13-0 start, makes only about $65,000 a year--the minimum wage...