Whereas 88% of computer and math jobs and 85% of engineering and architecture jobs in Santa Clara County offer sick pay, 59% of building and grounds cleaning jobs and 55% of private protective service jobs do not, according to the Institute for Women's Policy Research. [...]

Forty four percent of workers in California don’t get any paid sick days, according to a new analysis. That finding is part of a briefing paper published Tuesday by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, which advocates for such policies, and it offers estimates on paid [...]

Senate Republicans in April rejected the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would have held employees responsible for wage discrimination against women and would have required the U.S. Department of Labor to collect wage data from supervisors. Nationwide, women made 77 cents for every dollar earned by a [...]

This news is just another move on Gap’s part toward pay transparency. Just last June, the retailer announced that it would  increase the minimum wage to a $9 hourly wage for its 65,000 employees and hopes to increase that to $10 by June 2015. Although [...]

This news is just another move on Gap’s part toward pay transparency. Just last June, the retailer announced that it would  increase the minimum wage to a $9 hourly wage for its 65,000 employees and hopes to increase that to $10 by June 2015. Although [...]

The people most likely to lack paid sick leave are the people you want taking time off – the woman preparing your lunch and the man serving it to you. Less than 20 percent of the state’s restaurant workers have paid sick leave, according to [...]