Heading into 2022 — and a potential third year of the COVID-19 pandemic — California officials faced a familiar-feeling dilemma. Help businesses recover from an economic roller coaster by quashin...

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Workers in 21 states will see a rise in the minimum wage in the new year. As 2022 begins, some states will enact pay bumps ranging from cents to dollars per hour. Many of t...

FILE - Fast-food workers drive though a McDonald's restaurant demanding a for a $15 hourly minimum wage in East Los Angeles Friday, March 12, 2021. Minimum wage increases, animal protections, pol...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – New Mexico is raising its hourly minimum wage to $11.50 cents starting next week, a $1 increase to help working families make ends meet. However, advocates worry ...

Nearly two-and-a-half years after it was originally proposed, the Allegheny County Council passed a Paid Sick Leave law (the “Act”) in September 2021 to require employers to provide certain emplo...

Starting Saturday, shoppers in three Northern Virginia communities will have to pay 5 cents for plastic bags, District residents will no longer be able to use gas-powered leaf blowers to clean th...

New York state lawmakers voted to pass dozens of new laws in the past year that will go into effect in 2022. The laws are aimed at helping consumers and workers in the state, improving public saf...

If 2021 had a battle cry for U.S. lawmakers facing off with the world's biggest tech companies, it would be this: "Legislation is coming." This year, lawmakers went beyond just grilling companies...

The government has confirmed new Living Wage and National Minimum Wage rates from 1 April 2022. The new living wage and national minimum wage rates for the various categories of worker are as f...

It's not often that bacon leads a roundup of new laws taking effect with the New Year in California. But even in progressive California, that's the headline-grabber. It's among a host of other le...