Press Clips | May 29, 2015

ABC News: Proposed Labor Department changes could mean overtime pay for millions of salary workers

Via: ABC News

Millions of Americans could soon see more money in their paychecks, as President Obama pushes to change rules that qualify(…)

Press Clips | May 20, 2015

How The Minimum-Wage Debate Moved From Capitol Hill To City Halls

Via: NPR

The second-largest city in America could soon join Seattle and San Francisco in the club of cities that have agreed(…)

Press Clips | May 19, 2015

Los Angeles Votes To Raise Minimum Wage To $15

Via: Huffington Post

“This is a game changer,” Tsedeye Gebreselassie, a senior staff attorney at the wage advocacy group National Employment Law Project,(…)

Press Clips | May 14, 2015

CNN: 4 ways the new overtime rules may affect your paycheck

“In the coming months, millions of employees around the country could learn that they will become newly eligible for overtime(…)

Press Clips | May 13, 2015

New Republic: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Get Hired

Via: New Republic

A single tweak to job applications would change the lives of millions of job-seekers with conviction records.

Press Clips | May 7, 2015

POLITICO Pro: Cuomo Asserts Rarely Used Wage-Setting Power

Via: POLITICO Pro

Governors need to use all their options to address the wage crisis, says NELP’s Paul Sonn.

Press Clips | May 5, 2015

CBS: Obama eyes big change to rules on overtime pay

Via: CBS

“The current law, which is part of the Fair Labor Standards Act passed in 1938, allows companies to designate someone(…)

Press Clips | May 4, 2015

The Atlantic: Where the Minimum Wage Fight Is Being Won

Via: The Atlantic

Cities and states have shot far past Congress in raising the minimum wage. Will the feds ever catch up?

Press Clips | April 27, 2015

USA Today: Koch Industries Drops Criminal-History Question from Job Applications

Via: USA Today

Fair-chance hiring is an idea with broad appeal whose time has come.

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