What governors told NLC about minimum wage

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More than 120,000 workers at McDonald's, Burger King, Starbucks, Nordsee, KFC, Tank and Rast, Pizza Hut, Autogrill, and others are demanding a wage increase. The workers are demanding for E12 per hour but the management of the fast-food chains is proposing E9.48 per hour.

The Russian parliament fast-tracked a law against "fake news" at the end of March amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The legislation introduces criminal proceedings for the authors of false information published in the media and is backed up by an artificial intelligence system as well as an army of cyber activists who are tasked with trawling through the web. But Russian civil society groups say the law is an attack on civil liberties and that its real function is to silence dissident voices critical of the authorities' handling of the health crisis. Our correspondents report.

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Many Romanians come to Germany to do temp jobs in Germany's slaughterhouses, usually under terrible conditions. But the coronavirus pandemic is shedding light on the abuse of foreign workers in Germany's slaughterhouses and now the German government is doing something about it.

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Security operatives disrupt protest by local govt workers over minimum wage

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Public servants in Nigeria, where the monthly minimum wage is ₦30,000 – a figure currently less than $100 – are protesting the move by the National Assembly to remove the minimum wage act from the exclusive list. They also want some of the highest-paid elected officials in the world to prioritise the wellbeing of workers and cut down on wasteful spending.⁣

Workers protest across Northern Nigeria over plan to move minimum wage to the concurrent list