Blue-collar wages are now growing at an annual rate of 5-6 per cent, with many companies offering performance-based incentives to attract and retain skilled talent, according to a report on Thursday.

The report, 'Blue-collar workforce trends 2025' by Deloitte said the trend reflects a strong demand for skilled talent across key sectors such as manufacturing, automotive, ecommerce and logistics.

According to calculations by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO), nominal wages will have risen by an average of 1.8% in 2024, as detailed in a press release on Tuesday. In the last estimate in ...

The Delhi government said on Wednesday (April 16, 2025) that it had raised the minimum wages of blue-collar workers employed in government and private sectors across the national capital.

Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2025 on Tuesday in both chambers with hopes of increasing the federal minimum wage. The bill would ...

In 2024, about 18% of workers in agriculture and hunting roles were 65 or older, compared to nearly 8% in retail trade, 6% in manufacturing, ... Blue-collar work is hard to find, too.

Thousands of final rules and regulations populate the Federal Register each year, and their numbers since 1989 are also presented in the chart above. Biden concluded 2024 with 3,248 rules (again ...

Mike Rowe at ConnexFM 2024 David Nour Mike Rowe, former host of Dirty Jobs and founder of the mikeroweWORKS Foundation , has been a vocal advocate for challenging this mindset.

As we previously discussed, the DOL’s April 2024 rule increased the minimum salary requirements for the FLSA’s white-collar exemptions from $684 per week ($35,308 annually) to $844 per week ...

The federal minimum wage – which has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009 – has become a talking point recently, especially after Trump temporarily worked as a fry attendant at a McDonald’s in ...

As a result, at some federal facilities, blue-collar workers encounter pay inequity either compared with their General Schedule counterparts, and, in some instances, other Federal Wage System ...