Maura Healey Open To Another Minimum Wage Increase

Maura Healey Open To Another Minimum Wage Increase

Should Massachusetts boost its minimum wage above $15 an hour?

Massachusetts Governor-elect Maura Healey is open to the possibility of including some form of a cost-of-living adjustment to the minimum wage, her campaign spokesman Karissa Hand told GBH News.

Maura Healey’s Office Approves Arlington’s Polyamorous Relationships Benefits Expansion
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Maura Healey’s Office Approves Arlington’s Polyamorous Relationships Benefits Expansion

Tom Joyce

Polyamorous relationships are now eligible for more benefits in the town of Arlington, Massachusetts.

That's because Article 11 passed at Arlington Town Meeting in May, granting additional employee benefits to registered domestic partnerships of town employees. Those benefits include bereavement leave, sick leave, and parental leave, among others. The town also dropped its requirements that members of a domestic partnership live together and share basic living expenses, as well as a requirement that no one in a domestic partnership is married to one another.

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