Swiss May Raise Minimum Wage to $25/Hour
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 16th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Swiss May Raise Minimum Wage to $25/Hour
Switzerland voters are going to the polls Sunday to vote on a referendum setting the minimum wage at 22 Swiss francs — or $25 per hour — which would be the highest minimum wage in the world. If approved, nearly 10 percent of the workforce would see their paychecks rise, with the majority of these working in retail and other low-level services jobs and agriculture. Switzerland is the most expensive country in the world to live in, according to the World Bank. In 2011, consumer goods were 62 percent higher there than the European Union average.
Sudan Sentences Christian to Death for ‘Apostasy’
A pregnant Sudanese woman who married a Christian man was sentenced to death Thursday after she refused to recant her Christian faith, her lawyer said. Meriam Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim but mother was an Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia, was convicted of “apostasy” on Sunday and given four days to repent and escape death, said lawyer Al-Shareef Ali al-Shareef Mohammed. Amnesty International immediately condemned the sentence, calling it “abhorrent.” Sudan’s penal code criminalizes the conversion of Muslims into other religions, which is punishable by death. Ibrahim said in court, “I was never a Muslim. I was raised a Christian from the start.”
