Retailers embrace new wage reality

March 8, 2015

While the tightening labor market, and the protests about Walmart’s pay policies likely factored into its wage change, the deciding argument for the company probably was that it would be good for sales, said Carl Van Horn, professor of public policy at Rutgers University and director of the John J. Heidrich Center for Workforce Development.

NorthJersey.com, March 8

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