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At least 25 states are expected to increase their minimum wage over the next year, with California, Massachusetts, Washington and Connecticut planning to increase the minimum hourly wage to $15 or more. New York will raise its minimum wage to $14.20 an hour starting on Dec. 31.

The government's employment report for last month showed that annual growth in hourly earnings rose to 5.1%, up from 4.9% in October. "The feeding frenzy of companies poaching each other's workers has abated somewhat, but the trend of pay hikes remains quite high and is not slowing down by much," said Stephen Stanley, chief economist at Amherst Pierpont.

The misclassification of workers as independent contractors is contributing to a decline in the total of workers who have workers' compensation insurance coverage, marking one of three "troubling" trends in workers' comp, according to a blog post by Christopher Godfrey of the Labor Department. The other two trends are decreases in total benefits paid for worker injuries and moves toward making workers' comp optional in states such as South Dakota and Texas, Godfrey writes.

Packers Sanitation Services, a Wisconsin-based company that employed at least 50 minors in three states on overnight shifts where they sanitized dangerous meatpacking equipment, has agreed to make changes following a Labor Department investigation and a federal court ordering it to obey child labor laws. The company will hire an external consultant to better train managers and evaluate hiring practices.

Many employers would need to adjust their risk profiles under a Labor Department proposed rule that could require more workers to be classified as employees rather than independent contractors, according to workers' compensation experts. A rule that "forces employers to reclassify independent contractors as employees" would have "a significant effect on workers' comp and on the overall economics of their business model," says Will Brauer of Marsh.

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