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By ERIN TIERNAN

BOSTON — New polling suggests statewide support for another minimum wage hike and as lawmakers weigh a push to raise the wage floor, an advocacy coalition is now actively pondering a ballot question to “force the issue.”The Change Research survey...

By MICHAEL P. NORTON and CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — Supporters of a minimum wage increase have opted not to pursue a ballot question in 2024.Raise Up Massachusetts spokesman Andrew Farnitano, whose group had been weighing an initiative petition to secure another minimum wage hike, confirmed...

By Amanda Drane

In many Chinese restaurants, workers are expected to work well beyond the standard 40-hour week. Can those employees then expect time-and-a-half overtime pay? No. But, then again, yes. Restaurants are among the businesses that have won an exemption...