According to the source, the "W" visa would affect housekeepers, landscapers, retail workers and some construction workers.
But if retail workers got a raise, would consumers have to pay higher prices to make up for it?
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Retail workers expressed the most pessimism about growth opportunities and compensation.
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For retail workers, the device can access product information, look at inventory or be used to call another employee inside or outside the store for assistance.
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That includes 47, 000 U.S. Apple employees (out of a global staff of 70, 000), with 13, 000 engineering jobs in Cupertino, 27, 350 retail workers and a large support team in Austin, Tex.
According to the website for MomsRising, a group that pushes for reform on issues like maternity leave, fair wages and paid family illness days, 55 percent of workers in the retail industry and 48 percent of workers employed in the general private sector don't receive paid sick days.
Unlike teen retail and service workers, agricultural laborers 16 and older are permitted to operate hazardous machinery and to work even during school hours.
Mr Henry said unions like Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) could not understand why Holyrood had found the law inadequate to protect nurses, doctors and policemen, but adequate to protect retail staff and public workers like bus drivers and housing workers.
The lower-wage occupations that grew the most during the recovery include retail salespersons, food preparation workers, laborers and freight workers, waiters and waitresses, personal and home care aides, and office clerks and customer representatives.
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"Donate enough money to the Senate GOP as an investment that will end up making their corporation an enormous amount of money, all on the backs of hard-working, taxpaying Americans, " said Patrick Purcell of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents workers in grocery and retail stores, and in food-processing and meat packing companies.
Apple's new guy in charge of retail launched a plan to lay off workers and boost profits, then had to walk it back when people pointed out that this was stupid.
Critics accuse the retail giant of destroying neighborhoods, exploiting its workers and discriminating against female employees.
Germany is demanding explanations from the online retail giant Amazon after a TV documentary showed seasonal workers being harassed by security guards.
The respondents, which tended to be bigger retailers, are responsible for 37% of Britain's retail sales and employ 29% of the shop workers.
Defined contribution retirement plans, in addition to shifting responsibility for investment decision-making onto workers, almost always force workers into higher cost, poorer performing retail oriented investment options.
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To champions of the little guy, the current wave of lawsuits and anti-Wal-Mart sentiment represents justice and deserved comeuppance for a retail behemoth intent on keeping prices down by squeezing workers and suppliers to save every penny it can.
Amazon.com said it cut ties with a German security firm amid claims that its guards intimidated and harassed temporary immigrant workers they were assigned to oversee for the Internet retail giant.
Britain's shopkeepers do not have the luxury of space and looser planning rules to put a handful of workers in charge of acres of goods, so retail productivity gains have been much lower.
These are not trivial amounts for workers in low-wage industries like food service, retail, and low-skilled labor.
They make up over half of the retail workforce, and in particular are the majority of food service and clothing store workers.
Instead, Redbox has sent out hundreds of workers to stores like Target and Wal-Mart to buy DVDs at retail to stock their kiosks.
Engineers at Intermec, which developed the original standard retail code, put codes on the backs of bees to let researchers track which workers bring in the most pollen.
The National Retail Federation estimates that retailers plan to hire between 585, 000 and 625, 000 temporary workers this Christmas season.
The workers are protesting against reforms - which include plans to open the country's retail sector to global supermarket chains - which they describe as anti-labour.
Those who work in retail stores or restaurants, reporters and others in the media industry, gas station attendants, utility workers, hotel and airport personnel, public transportation workers, and business owners, among many other professionals, could also be on the clock tomorrow.
"You can get away with it at a big-box store, with mostly lower skilled retail positions, " he says, noting that a specialty electronics chain like Best Buy generally requires more knowledgeable workers.
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