SAN FRANCISCO Restaurateurs and other employers may get more time to comply fully with a new paid sick leave ordinance scheduled to go into effect here Monday. San Franciscovoters had approved the law in the November ballot, making the...
SEATTLE Starbucks Corp. reported a 17.7-percent surge in its fiscal 2007 first quarter profit versus a year earlier, on revenues that jumped 21.8 percent to a record $2.36 billion. Revenues were driven by same-store sales growth of 6...
WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate voted nearly unanimously Thursday to raise the minimum wage to $7.25 per hour in three phases over a 26-month stretch, but sought to temper the blow to restaurants and other small businesses by tacking several tax...