Wages

Yesterday Portugal announced it was increasing the country's minimum wage. How will its €505 per month compare to other countries in Europe? We've used The Economist's Big Mac index to find outYesterday Portugal announced it ...

State law say servers can be paid less than the minimum wage as long as tips make up the difference.

American fast-food workers often earn about $7.25 an hour to make the $3 chicken sandwiches and 99-cent tacos that generate billions of dollars in profit each year for McDonald's, Taco Bell and other chains.Thousands of ...

Police handcuffed dozens of protesters who blocked traffic in dozens of cities across the country in their latest attempt to escalate efforts to get McDonald's, Burger King and other fast-food companies to pay employees at ...

Does a 'no-tip model' in a restaurant mean happier staff and, ultimately, happier guests?

A group of Harvard scientists has waged war against the low-fat diet myth, singling out the muffin as its first target.For decades, full fat has been cast as a villainous food group, with manufacturers clamoring ...

The medicinal power of the humble neem, widely used in India as an insecticide and germicide, is now being channelised by a group of Kolkata scientists to wage a war against cancer.The team of researchers ...

Workers at McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's restaurants across New York walked out Monday in a one-day strike to demand better pay and the right to unionize, calling for minimum wage to more than double ...

Gourmets say rare meat tastes better as inspectors warn of potentially fatal virus in undercooked meatFoodies have waded into the battle being waged against rare meat by championing the delights of "pink pork", which environmental ...

Good cooks know their strengths, which is why I thought Julia Moskin would understand she had no business making Christmas cookies. Christmas cookies are the pop-culture expression of the biggest Christian holiday in America. A ...