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What’s open and closed on Juneteenth 2024
CNN Business via Yahoo Finance· 6 hours agoJuneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, became the newest US federal holiday in 2021, though its storied history has held...
Feds are still slated for a 2% average pay raise in 2025 per House appropriations bill
Government Executive· 5 days agoLast spring, President Biden turned heads by releasing a fiscal 2025 budget proposal with a 2.0%...
Trump Says He Wants To Help Tipped Workers. As President, He Tried To Stiff Them.
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBut they failed to stop a separate Trump policy change for tipped workers. That rule made it easier...
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 3 hours ago"On this day, we must confront the ugly parts of our history and honor the slaves who suffered and died under a repressive regime. We must also pay...
Untipped: Why Trump’s Tax Cut Promise Would Hurt Many Service Workers
Forbes· 2 days agoFormer President Trump’s proposal to exempt all tips from federal tax would benefit few tipped ...
Tampa Bay representative urges federal government to enact protections for workers against extreme...
WTSP-TV Tampa· 3 hours agoA Tampa Bay-area representative is urging the federal government to finish creating workplace...
For child care workers, state aid for their own kids’ care is ‘life-changing’
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 33 minutes agoSMITHFIELD, R.I. — Child care worker Marci Then, 32, looked over at two 4-year-olds in her care who...
Opinion | Who is Juneteenth really for?
MSNBC via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoJuneteenth is an official holiday first held to mark the close of slavery after the Civil War in Texas, but the George Floyd protests made it mainstream.
Juneteenth goes unobserved by Florida state government
The Raw Story· 3 hours agoToday, June 19, or “Juneteenth,” commemorates the end of slavery in the defeated South. The date...
Thousands of businesses could see overtime pay costs spike in July - The Business Journals
The Business Journals· 2 days agoUnder the terms of the new rule, which was finalized by the Department of Labor on April 22, the annual salary threshold under which non-exempt workers would be eligible for ...