Sentences with phrase «[national minimum wage»

Raising the minimum wage also featured prominently in the president's State of the Union address in January.

Howell addressed the White House Summit on Working Families last week about the economic need for Seattle's $ 15 minimum wage.

But Congress has pushed back against the federal wage increase, with legislation to increase the minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour stalling in the Senate last April.

«When they talk about raising the minimum wage or providing health care for employees over 30 hours, you're really encouraging automation.»

Disagreement over a proposed minimum wage in South Africa has led to mass protests and reassurances from the presidency this week.

Bills to raise the federal minimum wage, currently at $ 7.25 an hour, for other workers have gotten signficant pushback from lawmakers, who recently killed legislation in the Senate.

These could include wage insurance, or giving opportunities to the most economically disenfranchised such as pre-kindergarten education, free community college, and a higher minimum wage.

Workers across Canada are guaranteed a minimum wage.

And frankly, I think far more people would benefit by reducing the regulatory burden on small businesses than would benefit by a higher minimum wage.

Despite uncertainty over health care, the minimum wage, overtime, and the situation in the Ukraine, optimism among these companies held strong at 69 percent, according to the March 2014 SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard.

«Major tax increases or policy changes such as big hikes in the minimum wage will probably do more harm than good,» says Dahlby of the sort of programs necessary to satisfy vocal public - health boards.

In June 2014, he issued an executive order raising the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors to $ 10.10.

Can you imagine what the impact would be if the movement to bring sanity to federal regulations got as much attention in the media as the movement to boost the federal minimum wage to $ 15.

Certainly, the $ 7.25 federal minimum wage isn't helping.

Seattle will raise its minimum wage in early 2015, and at least one business owner is happy about the rate change.

Puzder named ethanol regulation, which has resulted in higher beef costs, a rising minimum wage and higher labor costs due to Obamacare as three obstacles that make doing business in the U.S. more difficult than in the past.

All politics aside, changes in the minimum wage have effects on all businesses, large and small, whether you voted for them or not.

Each milestone grants Musk a large chunk of Tesla stock, but otherwise he is paid nothing (well, not quite: Tesla actually pays him minimum wage, in accordance with California law).

Politicians have criticized Hortons for its reaction to minimum wage increases in Ontario, while a group of franchisees has alleged Restaurant Brands is not keeping to the terms of a 2014 deal to buy the chain.

Raising the federal minimum wage to $ 10.10 from its current level, a 39 percent increase, would lift close to one million workers out of poverty, according to a 2014 report by the Congressional Budget Office.

The Raiders are moving into a market where more than half of the locals work in tourism, making minimum wage or slightly above.

Forum Research found last year that 65 percent of Ontario respondents approve of a C$ 15 minimum wage, mirroring the national figure of 63 percent.

«I can't pay myself minimum wage, and do the rest in dividends.

CAMBODIA: Riot police watched carefully as more than 1,000 garment workers defied a government ban on marching to deliver a petition to the National Assembly in Phnom Penh, demanding a higher minimum wage and more freedom of assembly.

Most people agree that today's $ 11.40 an hour minimum wage in Ontario is too low to make ends meet, unless you can depend on others» incomes.

The proportion of older workers (55 +) working minimum wage jobs grew much more slowly... but it's the fastest growing age cohort of workers.

A review of studies suggests even where the impact of minimum wage increases is not «benign,» job loss evidence has to be weighed against what happens to the purchasing power of the remaining workers.

On the Republican side, real estate billionaire Donald Trump does not favor raising the minimum wage.

And the company pays staffers more than rivals do: Experienced cashiers earn more than $ 40,000, while full - time clerks receive salaries that start above the minimum wage at $ 12 an hour, according to the Globe.

Minimum wage — plus potentially billions in company stock.

Statistics aside, a higher minimum wage, particularly one that would gradually rise to $ 15, could be good for small businesses, Price says.

A more nagging problem is that «failure to launch» has led to more people in their prime earning years working minimum wage jobs.

Fisher says the value of the product used as compensation should be at least the number of hours worked times minimum wage.

Raising the minimum wage raises costs for business, there is no denying; and the affected businesses are not just small business.

Economic theory offers a perfectly reasonable assumption: a higher minimum wage leads to job loss.

While some workers may lose their job after the minimum wage increase (more on that in a minute), a very large number of workers will see an important pay hike, and that will loop back into the economy.

But minimum wage policies are not the only worry young workers face.

The government's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour by January 2019 will bring it to roughly 55 per cent of the average wage, if wage growth keep pace with inflation in the intervening period.

Among their demands was increasing the minimum wage from $ 153 to $ 208 per month.

While he did not mention what new level he favored, as governor he passed legislation that will increase Maryland's minimum wage to $ 10.10.

Yet the national dialogue about increasing the minimum wage to the $ 15 level makes her slightly uncomfortable.

Historically, however, minimum wage wasn't about poverty reduction.

Did you know at least half of all minimum wage workers in Ontario work for employers with over 500 employees?

A 2016 study examining 78 years of federal minimum wage hikes in the U.S. (between 1938 and 2009) showed no correlation between those increases and job losses, even in sectors most affected by such policies.

The party would set a $ 15 minimum wage for federally regulated industries, and establish a Youth Community and Environment Service Corps, which would support jobs for 160,000 young people over four years at the new minimum wage.

Clinton said she'd raise the minimum wage, though to an unspecified level, as part of a comprehensive package that would make companies «share profits with the workers who helped to make them.»

She has slashed the cabinet in half, raised the minimum wage and announced plans to double the province's carbon tax over the next two years, the first such change in nearly a decade.

Currently 29 states have a minimum wage above the federal standard, and 24 cities and counties have minimums above state levels, according to the Economic Policy Institute.

Boost the minimum wage and you boost the economy from the bottom up.

Their unemployment rates go up even when the inflation - adjusted value of minimum wage declines, because macroeconomics swamps all.