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A press release published by Samoa News last Friday shows the written statement that Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga presented to a US House committee and mentioned a proposed $15 per hour federal minimum wage hike. The governor suggested that a special industry committee be establish for...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has, again, informed the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) that the territorial government prefers to establish a private-public sector committee, with federal participation, to analyze and determine the territory’s minimum wage level,...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Besides GHC Reid & Co. Ltd., four other local companies submitted written comments to the American Samoa Chamber of Commerce regarding the impact of minimum wage hikes in American Samoa. The comments were submitted by the Chamber to the US Government Accountability...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Another federally mandated minimum wage increase in American Samoa will be an additional cost that G.H.C. Reid & Co. will have to cut from its “operations/overheads,” said GHC Reid & Co. general manager, Cherith Lober, who shared the company’s view in a written...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “The determination of the appropriate minimum wage [for American Samoa] should be based on the carrying capacity of the economy to absorb any increase in minimum wage without substantially curtailing employment,” according to the governor’s appointed Minimum Wage Task...