{"id":8609,"date":"2014-02-20T11:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T10:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=8609"},"modified":"2014-02-24T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T09:43:54","slug":"how-gaps-minimum-wage-pledge-is-already-paying-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2014\/02\/20\/how-gaps-minimum-wage-pledge-is-already-paying-off\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->How Gap&#8217;s Minimum Wage Pledge Is Already Paying Off<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/02\/20\/gap-minimum-wage_n_4826415.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8610\" title=\"How Gap's Minimum Wage Pledge Is Already Paying Off\" alt=\"How Gap's Minimum Wage Pledge Is Already Paying Off\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/140224_gap.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>Gap Inc. CEO Glenn Murphy shook up the retail world this week by announcing that the retailer would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/02\/20\/gap-minimum-wage-raise_n_4822172.html\" target=\"_hplink\">voluntarily raise its corporate-wide minimum wage<\/a> to $9 this year and to $10 in 2015. Explaining the decision to employees and the public on Wednesday, Murphy <a href=\"http:\/\/bananarepublic.gap.com\/Asset_Archive\/BRWeb\/content\/0007\/702\/228\/cn7702228.html\" target=\"_hplink\">said<\/a> such a &#8220;strategic investment&#8221; would better the lives of Gap workers while delivering the company &#8220;a return many times over&#8221; through higher productivity and morale. A day later, Murphy&#8217;s move is producing dividends of a different sort. Labor groups that have spent months beating up Gap over its handling of garment factory disasters in Bangladesh are now hailing the company as a leader for raising workers&#8217; wages without being forced by Congress. &#8220;Gap\u2019s decision exposes the greatest economic fraud of our time: that large employers cannot pay their employees fair wages,&#8221; Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO labor federation, said in a statement Thursday. &#8220;With one decision, The Gap has stripped the oligarch of his clothes and changed the economic debate in America.&#8221; While adding that Gap has &#8220;more work to do&#8221; in the U.S. and overseas, Trumka declared the minimum wage move &#8220;a turning point&#8221; for the company. After being petitioned by progressives over its supply-chain labor policies, Gap has suddenly become a high-road employer in the minimum wage debate &#8212; and has simultaneously distanced itself from Walmart, a company it&#8217;s been closely associated with in the public discussion over garment worker safety in Bangladesh. <a title=\"How Gap's Minimum Wage Pledge Is Already Paying Off\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/02\/20\/gap-minimum-wage_n_4826415.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: Global | Company: Gap | Source: <a title=\"How Gap's Minimum Wage Pledge Is Already Paying Off\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/02\/20\/gap-minimum-wage_n_4826415.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gap Inc. CEO Glenn Murphy shook up the retail world this week by announcing that the retailer would voluntarily raise its corporate-wide minimum wage to $9 this year and to $10 in 2015. Explaining the decision to employees and the public on Wednesday, Murphy said such a &#8220;strategic investment&#8221; would better the lives of Gap&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[672],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-8609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gap","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}