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Sarah Macy returns as St. Albans City finance director; ‘It was a no brainer.’ | Local News
ST. ALBANS Town — Sarah Macy truly likes accounting. “In case you failed to decide on it up, I’m like a governmental accounting supernerd,” Macy explained. “My personalized mission is to make absolutely everyone that I meet an accountant.” Fortunate for her, she gets to account all day. Immediately after a 7-calendar year hiatus doing the job absent from the City of St. Albans, Macy has returned as its newly-hired finance director. “The universe is like: ‘Here is your route. You have gone out and gathered all of this knowledge and now you can arrive back and use it. Hold on keeping on all of this that was listed here…
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Walmart, Home Depot raised wages, analyst calls it a ‘no brainer’ for long-term value
Big box retailers — and big-time employers — in the U.S. recently announced plans to increase their minimum wage. In Home Depot’s (HD) Q4 earnings results this week, the company announced an additional $1 billion investment in wage increases. This investment brings the starting wage in every U.S. market to at least $15 an hour. Meanwhile at the end of January, U.S. retailer Walmart (WMT) announced plans to increase its average hourly pay to more than $17.50, making the range now $14 to $19 per hour. In a statement to U.S. employees, Walmart U.S. CEO and president John Furner said the increase in pay was “to ensure we have attractive…
