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Progressive Unemployment Insurance Reform (One in a Series)
Update: February 6, 2014. Today the State Senate passed an Unemployment Insurance (UI) Reform bill. One important element in that bill is the increase in the amount of employees’ wages on which...
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (More from the Unemployment Insurance Front)
In our last episode, employers in the Bay State, a little sore after the passage by the Senate of a $3 per hour increase in the minimum wage, were contending that any minimum wage increase must be...
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The “Five Stages” of Opposition to a Minimum Wage Increase
The 2014 Legislative session has gotten underway, and employer groups opposed to an increase in the state’s minimum wage are firing warning shots and charting diversionary tactics to try to keep this...
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UI “Reform”: Let’s Count the Savings (this won’t take long)
House Speaker DeLeo said again this week that he plans to couple legislation to increase the minimum wage with changes to the unemployment insurance system that businesses want. Meanwhile, the...
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Yesterday’s Minimum Wage Fracas – What Was THAT About?
UPDATE, March 25: Forecast for minimum wage bill: mainly preposterous, with gusts reaching absurdity. After last week’s scrapped takeoff, House Representative Tom Conroy announced today that the House...
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Coming Wednesday 4/2: House Debate on Minimum Wage (AND Unemployment...
On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee released its bill covering not only the minimum wage but also unemployment insurance and protections for domestic workers. Amendments to the bill were...
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