Just .6 percent of full-time workers and 1.7 percent of full-time hourly workers earn the minimum.
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Ford, limping through a turnaround effort, needs to close factories and shed excess hourly workers.
Several hourly workers say the top brass heeds their suggestions faster than previous management did.
In September the company announced it would ax 14, 000 white-collar workers and offer buyouts to 75, 000 hourly workers.
Clark targets her hourly workers for training and career development, whether they're high school students, part-time teachers and nurses, or grandmothers.
Ford Motor hopes to jump start its stalled turnaround effort with widespread buyout offers for more than 75, 000 hourly workers represented by United Auto Workers.
Hourly workers from the Corvette plant in Bowling Green, Ky.
Only after that experiment worked did it roll out a mobile page for hourly workers, in 2012, said Michelle Cantor, director of employment process and jobs.com.
To right-size its business, Ford confirmed it would offer buyouts to 75, 000 of its hourly workers and cut its salaried workforce by one-third, or about 14, 000 jobs.
In addition to its 40 managers, NYPD has 90 hourly workers mostly kitchen staff who are considered full-time under the law and who would therefore be eligible for the benefits.
Social Security beneficiaries stand short-changed in their inflation adjusted increases along with tens of millions of hourly workers whose inflation-adjusted bump-ups are tied to the Consumer Price Index.
Mike Feroli, a senior economist at JPMorgan Chase, noted that it the jump came as Chrysler laid off 27, 000 hourly workers, as well as an unknown about of employees at suppliers.
In a survey commissioned by SnagAJob.com, managers responsible for hiring said they would be bringing on about 33 percent fewer seasonal workers and 20 percent fewer hourly workers for the holidays.
By offering buyouts to hourly workers and closing some factories earlier than planned, Ford expects to eliminate 25, 000 to 30, 000 hourly jobs by 2008, instead of by 2012, as originally scheduled in January.
Also approved was a request by the company to continue the pension plan for hourly workers under an agreement reached with the machinists union that freezes pensions and creates a new retirement savings plan.
The move is a something of a departure for Wal-Mart, whose concentration over the past year or so has mostly been aimed at pacifying critics who decry the company's alleged shabby treatment of its hourly workers.
The company employs more than 30, 000 hourly workers in the US. Now it says it wants to slash wages and benefits by 60 percent or more, something no major union in the country has ever accepted.
To right-size its business, Ford (nyse: F - news - people ) confirmed it would offer buyouts to 75, 000 of its hourly workers and cut its salaried workforce by one-third, or about 14, 000 jobs.
That of course refers to the old minimum wage of course: but there were about 1.9 million workers, or about 2.5 % of all hourly paid workers, who got the minimum wage or below.
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He also said it's a good idea to apply at a store that's close to home, because most retailers will want their hourly seasonal workers to work late, meaning it's often midnight or 1 a.m. before everyone goes home for the night.
Or another way of looking at this is that once you take out those for whom minimum wage is just a basic, before tips and or commissions, we end up talking about 3% or so of hourly paid workers, or something like 1.5% of the total workforce.
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Although workers under age 25 represented only about one-fifth of hourly-paid workers, they made up about half of those paid the Federal minimum wage or less.
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Together, these 3.8 million workers with wages at or below the Federal minimum made up 5.2 percent of all the hourly-paid workers who comprise 59.1 percent of the entire wage and salary workforce.
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Our latest estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls (workers X hours X hourly pay) for production workers still shows a downshift in 2012, though that is likely to be revised up.
Fairfax currently operates around the clock, employing about 4, 000 hourly and salaried workers.
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In a letter to both hourly and salaried workers, Akerson used the coming Labor Day holiday as an occasion to say nice things about unions and promote the idea of labor peace.
In contrast, across all age groups and education levels, government figures show that the average age-adjusted hourly wage for workers in production and non supervisor roles have, in fact, risen 3% in the same time period.
" Reich recently wrote that providing a bottom line beneath which workers' hourly pay must not fall is the nation's moral duty, and "a decent society should do no less.
Ford Motor ( F - news - people ) announced it would be offering buyout or retirement incentive packages to all 41, 000 of its hourly, United Automobile Workers-represented workers in the U.S. The company is trying to reduce payroll costs as a step toward regaining profitability by 2011.
Some have argued that increasing the minimum wage might reduce employment but still redistribute wealth to poor workers because their increased hourly wage might compensate for a reduction in employment.
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