A panel advising Japan’s government called for a record increase to the minimum wage for a second straight year, sending a positive signal to the Bank of Japan as it pursues demand-led economic growth https://t.co/wEwJLsFkUm ...

From @WSJopinion: There’s no such thing as a free fast-food lunch. According to a new study, California has about 18,000 fewer fast-food jobs than if its $20 minimum-wage law had never passed. https://t.co/VHHZSq6hYd ...

Britain’s economy lost jobs again in June as the Labour government faces growing criticism for lifting the minimum wage and imposing a £26 billion payroll tax hike on companies https://t.co/7PGhS3z0Yb ...

Hotel owners are in open revolt against Los Angeles’s new $30-an-hour minimum wage, the latest blow to one of the country’s poorest-performing lodging markets https://t.co/POvh8bn5sD ...

Hundreds of thousands of US workers are actually getting a bump in pay today. Nearly two dozen states, cities, and local municipalities are raising their minimum wages effective July 1. That includes places like Alaska, which will increase minimum wage to $13 an hour, and California, which is hiking minimum wages to $24 an hour for many health care workers. ...

Hotel owners are in open revolt against Los Angeles’s new $30-an-hour minimum wage, the latest blow to one of the country’s poorest-performing lodging markets https://t.co/3cOkvh8txQ ...

Turkey’s government plans to skip a mid-year increase in the minimum wage, resisting political pressure to alleviate rising living costs https://t.co/atkFot5cQR ...

An independent commission agrees Germany’s statutory minimum wage should be increased in two steps to €14.60 in 2027, in a move that could stoke discord in Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s ruling coalition https://t.co/TdC68Ukqfh ...