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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Hourly, an app that lets businesses track working hours, generate payroll, and assign compensation insurance to hourly wage workers, raises a $27M Series A — We've seen a boom in the last several years around tech built for front-line, service, manual, and other workforces typically paid on an hourly wage. Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Hourly, an app that lets businesses track working hours, generate payroll, and assign compensation insurance to hourly wage workers,…

Two weeks before professors were set to administer final exams last month at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), 1500 graduate teaching assistants went on strike to demand a wage increase. Union representatives had been at the bargaining table with the university for a year, since April 2021, trying to negotiate a new contract after their previous one expired. But the two sides hadn’t been able to reach an agreement. “The raises that they were offering at that point where far…

Credit: Shutterstock/Denys Kurbatov It can be difficult to see a way out of the current cost of living crisis. Prices continue to rise, and there are fears that if nothing changes, many families will face serious financial hardship. …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Reforms to remove legal exemptions to give live-in domestic workers access to the minimum wage are an important step against the devaluation of this work but will be difficult to enforce because of Britain's immigration rules, a new study says. …