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LinkedIn To Pay Nearly $6 Million In Unpaid Wages And Damages To Current And...
NEW YORK (AP) _ The Labor Department says the professional networking service LinkedIn has agreed to pay nearly $6 million in unpaid wages and damages to 359 current and former employees. The U.S....
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Oakland Raiders Settle Lawsuit With Former Cheerleaders For $1.25 Million
OAKLAND (KCBS) – The Oakland Raiders have settled a class-action wage theft lawsuit brought against them by two former cheerleaders, and will pay out $1.25 million in the settlement. According to the...
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KCBS Cover Story: Zoo Labs In Oakland Shows Musicians How To Think Like Startups
OAKLAND (KCBS) — Some of Silicon Valley’s greatest companies and some of the world’s most famous rock bands have one thing in common—starting up in garages. KCBS Cover Story: Zoo Labs In Oakland Shows...
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Microsoft CEO Apologizes After Saying Women Don’t Need To Ask For A Raise,...
PHOENIX (CBS SF/AP) — Microsoft’s chief executive has apologized hours after making comments at a conference celebrating women in computing that women don’t need to ask for a raise, and instead trust...
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Facebook Shuttle Drivers Vote To Unionize
MENLO PARK (CBS SF) — Drivers for a transportation service contracted to shuttle Facebook employees voted Wednesday to unionize, according to a statement from the service’s CEO. Loop Transportation CEO...
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California Bill Would Reclassify Pro Sports Cheerleaders As Team Employees...
SACRAMENTO (CBS SF) — A Southern California lawmakers is working to improve the status of professional sports cheerleaders, who lack wage protections and rights allotted to other team workers....
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President Obama Deploys Labor Secretary To Intervene In West Coast Port Dispute
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — The nation’s top labor official was scheduled to arrive in the Bay Area Monday to sit down with both sides of the contentious west coast port dispute sometime on Tuesday. U.S....
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Get Ready To Pay More At Oakland Restaurants As Minimum Wage Law Kicks In
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_1802201522133561261AA.mp4 OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — The minimum wage in Oakland will jump $3 in less than two weeks and restaurants from Piedmont to Jack London...
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SF Art Institute Adjunct Professors Walk Out Of Class, Join National Movement...
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— About 100 professors, students and their supporters staged a noontime walkout of classes at the San Francisco Art Institute. Wednesday’s action was part of a national movement...
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Apple Security Guards Get Hired As Full-Time Employees
CUPERTINO (KCBS)— It’s seen as another victory for low-wage workers in Silicon Valley. Apple is agreeing to hire many of its security guards as full-time employees. Security guards at Silicon Valley...
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Golden Gate Restaurant Association Director Says It’s An Exciting Time To...
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— For residents and visitors alike, the culinary offerings in the Bay Area are prized, but in a time of wealth inequality in a very expensive region, the restaurant industry is in a...
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Minimum Wage Hike Hits Oakland Chinatown Shop, Restaurant Owners Hard
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_1603201522141608906AA.mp4 OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Some shop owners in Oakland’s Chinatown say business is down, and they are struggling to stay afloat after the...
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Women Earning More Than Men In Some East Bay Cities
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Women are out-earning men in a few East Bay cities, according to a new study. Financial advice website NerdWallet studied wage differences between men and women in the U.S. using...
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Berkeley Protesters Shut Down Intersection During Call For $15 Minimum Wage
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_1504201522103225286AA.mp4 BERKELEY (CBS SF) — Hundreds of fast food workers and their supporters marching through the streets of downtown Berkeley...
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Closing Pay Gaps Between Men, Women At Company
http://media.sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/CBSSF_2304201522132766544AA.mp4 SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Many of Salesforce’s 16,000 employees could be getting raises just because they are women after CEO Marc...
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San Francisco Minimum Wage Rises To $12.25 An Hour; Ties Oakland For Highest...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Starting Friday, San Francisco will join the city of Oakland in having the highest minimum wage in the nation as it increases its minimum wage from $11.05 to $12.25. Affecting...
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San Francisco-Area Residents Need To Earn More Than $39 An Hour To Afford...
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A new report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the advocacy organization Housing California has found that in the San Francisco metropolitan area, someone would...
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California State Sen. Mark Leno Wants To Raise State Minimum Wage To $13 An Hour
SACRAMENTO (KCBS)— Saying California wages are growing slower than corporate profits, one Bay Area state lawmaker is pushing a plan to raise the state’s minimum wage to $13 an hour. So far, the measure...
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San Jose Firefighters Get Their First Pay Raise Since 2008
SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) – For San Jose firefighters, there is finally a clear path ahead when it comes to their future with the city. “We’re very happy to announce that we have a tentative agreement with the...
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Bay Area Workers Earning Nearly 50 Percent More Than Average U.S. Employee
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco-area workers earn around 47 percent more than the U.S. average, according to statistics released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor...
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Minor League Baseball Labor Lawsuit Against MLB Can Proceed As Class Action
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A federal magistrate conditionally ruled in San Francisco Tuesday that a labor lawsuit by minor league baseball players against Major League Baseball and 22 clubs can proceed...
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Alex Morgan And Teammates Sue US Soccer Over Wages
UNDATED (AP) — Five female players from the World Cup-winning U.S. national team have accused the U.S. Soccer Federation of wage discrimination in an action filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity...
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Gov. Brown Approves Increased Family Leave Pay
SACRAMENTO (CBS / AP) — California’s Democratic governor is increasing the amount of pay employers must give workers who take time off to care for their family. Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB908 Monday to...
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Starbucks Raises Prices To Give Workers A Raise
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — Expect to pay more for your Venti Caramel Waffle Cone Frappuchino on your next trip to Starbucks. That’s because Starbucks is doing more than raising the price of its beverages....
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Santa Clara County Court Workers To Continue Strike
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A strike by a union representing hundreds of Santa Clara County Superior Court employees demanding pay raises they say are long overdue will continue Thursday. The Santa Clara...
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Striking Santa Clara County Court Workers Willing To Enter Mediation
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A union representing nearly 400 Santa Clara County Superior Court workers on strike for a sixth day Wednesday calling for a pay raise is willing to enter negotiations with the...
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Santa Clara Court Workers Return To Work After 8-Day Strike
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – Santa Clara County Superior Court workers returned to their jobs Monday after an eight-day strike that ended when their union reached a tentative agreement on a new contract last...
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Minimum Wage Increases With New Year in San Jose, Oakland and Richmond
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Minimum wage workers in three of the Bay Area’s largest cities are set to get a raise in the New Year. San Jose, Richmond and Oakland all have minimum wage ordinances that will...
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U.S. Regulators Say Google Underpaid Female Employees
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Government investigators looking into how Google pays its employees accused the tech giant of shortchanging women doing similar work to men. A U.S. Department of Labor official...
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Oakland Raiders Agree To $1.25 Million Settlement With Former Cheerleaders
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — The Oakland Raiders have agreed to pay a $1.25 million settlement to a group of 100 former cheerleaders who claimed they were underpaid. The settlement announced by the cheerleaders...
View ArticleMinimum Wage Increased In Several Bay Area Cities
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — The minimum wage in the City of San Jose increased to $13.50 an hour Monday, part of a regional effort to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2019. In November 2016, the San...
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Investigation Uncovers Horrific Conditions, Illegal Guns At Bay Area Care...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The owners of six Bay Area adult and child day care facilities were charged with 59 counts Friday including human trafficking, wage theft, weapons and rape allegations...
View ArticleBay Area May Day Rallies Draw Hundreds Of Union Workers, Supporters
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Hundreds of union workers, social justice advocates and their supporters were rallying and marching through the streets of many Bay Area cities on Wednesday to observe International...
View ArticleFacebook Giving Raises To Contractors Doing Psychologically Taxing Work
MENLO PARK (AP) – Facebook is raising how much it pays U.S. contractors who do some of its most taxing work, including watching violent and other objectionable material for possible removal from the...
View ArticleConsumer Prices Rising Faster Than Wages In Bay Area
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Living expenses outpaced wages over the 12 months ending in June in the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan area, federal officials announced Wednesday. Wages grew by 3...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Agrees To $26M Settlement With California Workers Over Wages, Work...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — McDonald’s has agreed to a $26 million settlement of a long-running class-action lawsuit over wages and work conditions at corporate-run locations in California. The settlement...
View ArticleWages Up For Workers At Bay Area Private Firms
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Wages for employees of private firms in the Bay Area were up an average of 3.2 percent between December 2018 and December 2019, U.S. labor officials said Wednesday. Total...
View ArticleCOVID: SF Supes To Vote On Hazard Pay For Grocery, Retail Workers
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN/CBS SF) — San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday could approve an emergency ordinance to raise wages by $5 per hour for some grocery and retail workers as the COVID-19 pandemic...
View ArticleRohnert Park Teachers Authorize Strike In Push For Higher Wages
ROHNERT PARK (CBS SF/BCN) — Demanding higher wages, more than 90% of the local teachers’ union voted to authorize a strike if no agreement is reached with the Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School...
View ArticleHundreds of Airport Workers to Protest At SFO Over Wages, Benefits
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (CBS SF/BCN) — A local union announced Tuesday that hundreds of airport workers will protest the next day at San Francisco International Airport to highlight demands...
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