• “Get Ready to Reclassify Workers Under Forthcoming FLSA Regs” [Stephen Miller, SHRM] Won’t be pretty: how Obama overtime edict will affect retail and restaurant sectors of economy [National Retail Federation]
• Measuring worker compensation: fringe benefits and stagnating wages [David Henderson and Arnold Kling]
• “FedEx Settles Independent Contractor Mislabeling Case For $228 Million” [Robert Wood, Forbes]
• “LA’s Minimum Wake Hike: A Teaching Moment For Those Trying To Help The Underprivileged” [Brian Doherty, Reason]
• “The Faces of $15?: Real stories of the real consequences of raising the minimum wage” [Employment Policies Institute via Mark Perry, AEI; Steve Chapman]
• Connecticut doesn’t have enough wage and hour litigation, so its legislature passes bill to double damages [Daniel Schwartz]
• Using the minimum wage to stimulate the economy “like trying to get rich by picking your own pocket” [Megan McArdle]

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