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(Archive March 2016) How Will Minimum Wage Increase Affect Work Study at MWCC?

By editorialteam on August 23, 2024

By Stevie LaBelle | Assistant Editor

As of January 1st, 2016 the minimum wage in Massachusetts was increased to $10.00 an hour. This increased the wage for Mount Wachusett Community College students whom are employed as work study positions within the college.

This wage increase is the second step in a three part plan put into action by Deval Patrick in a law signed on June 26th, 2014. The first step was enacted on January 1st, 2015 with an increase to $9.00 an hour. The minimum wage is set to increase once more on January 1st, 2017 to the amount of $11.00 an hour. read more

(Archive March 2016) MWCC Students React to McDonald’s Wage Raise

By editorialteam on August 23, 2024

By Andrew Hoenig | Assistant Editor

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Mount Wachusett Community College – Students in Business Ethics 105-E were part of a recent survey concerning the ethicality and practicality in the recent decision of the McDonald’s fast food chain to “raise its minimum wage by $1 over the locally mandated minimum pay for its corporate-owned locations which began last July.” (According to CNBC)

The hope is that the company can raise the wage to $15 an hour.

The students’ responses to this were based on a series of three questions about this eventual $15 an hour wage. read more