The University of California will raise its minimum wage to $15 per hour over the next three years for all employees, including part-time and contract workers. Under a plan unveiled Wednesday at the university’s Board of Regents meeting in San Francisco, mandated hourly pay will increase to $13 this October, then by another dollar over … Continue reading
Those who feel powerful at work tend not to smile back at important people and instead save their smiles for those below them in the pecking order, researchers say. “Our interpretation of this is that when you are feeling powerful and see a low-status person, you are almost throwing them a bone, thinking “Oh, I … Continue reading
In contrast, members of the “lower” classes appeared more likely to display the traditional attributes of a gentleman. It suggests that the traditional notion of the upper class “cad” or “bounder” could have a scientific basis. But psychologists at the University of California in Berkeley, who carried out the study, also suggested that the findings … Continue reading