Sentences with phrase «minimum wages of workers»

The complaint alleges that the Company was in violation of the Colorado Minimum Wages of Workers Act and the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act («TVPA»).

Not exact matches

On the other side of the coin, workers» incomes are rising due to tax cuts and to hikes in minimum wages.

It starts with rock - bottom wages: its garment workers are the world's lowest paid, earning a minimum wage of just US$ 37 a month.

One University of California, Berkeley study that focused on restaurant workers found that wages rose 1 % for every 10 % increase in the minimum wage.

«At a time when persistent high unemployment is putting enormous downward pressure on wages, such a minimum - wage increase would provide a much - needed boost to the earnings of low - wage workers,» EPI noted in a joint letter addressed to House and Senate leadership.

The Guardian spoke with several of the brand's workers at the PT Buma Apparel Industry factory, who told the publication that they are paid one of the lowest minimum wages in Asia — less than $ 6 a day — while at the same time being tasked with high production rates.

-- Similarly exploited immigrant labor without labor rights (all temporary and dual purpose immigrants), employer sponsorship being the key to suppressing wages (plus all of David Card's papers and equations are wrong due to DNWR)-- Fair Labor Standards Act generally doesn't apply to office workers and other positions that corporations tag as professionals and / or managers, despite recent Obama hike of minimum applicable wage.

The decision on minimum wages added New York to a list of other regions, such as San Francisco and Chicago, that have sought to jack up minimum wages for fast - food workers.

The panel's decision on minimum wage adds New York to a list of other regions, such as San Francisco and Chicago, that have sought to jack up minimum wages for fast food workers.

If a whole lot of minimum wage workers in tourist or retail industries lose their jobs, whereas nurses, doctors and teachers keep their jobs, average wages will go up.

However, hikes in minimum wages in a number of states and reports that prominent companies are having to offer higher pay to attract workers may start to show up in wage statistics in the months ahead.

If employers respond to a higher minimum by holding down wages of better paid workers no impact results.

In the social care sector, non-payment of travel time is sending many workers» wages under the minimum wage line.

Two prominent studies find modest effects, in one case estimating that each 1 % increase in the share of migrants in the UK working age population leads to a 0.6 % decline in the wages of the 5 % lowest paid workers, which would mean about 3p less per hour for someone earning just over the minimum wage of # 6.19.

«He stood with fast food workers and airport workers in their fight for better wages and benefits, and has been a strong supporter of a $ 15 state minimum wage and a paid family leave policy that can truly help working families.»

«In the past four years in the Cuomo administration, Kathy Hochul has been an important part of a team that has delivered progressive gains for New York's working families — an increase in the minimum wage for all New Yorkers, and a historic increase in wages for airport workers — and has been a staunch supporter of civil rights issues that matter to our members and everyone in the state,» said 32BJ SEIU President Héctor Figueroa.

Miliband committed to increase funding for border checks, tackle exploitation and the undercutting of wages, require employers who recruit abroad to create apprenticeships, and ensure workers in public - facing roles have minimum standards of English.

The SYEP pays the youth's wages at the current minimum wage rate of $ 9.70 and all applicable payroll and workers compensation taxes.

Having two different minimum wages in Upstate will make it difficult for some industries to recruit or keep good workers who could make more money at McDonald's, said Greg Biryla, executive director of Unshackle Upstate, a business group that opposed the wage hike.

A Labour administration would focus on three things to help ease pressure on public services and wages including better enforcement of the minimum wage, cracking down on recruitment agencies who only supplied workers from particular countries and looking at areas and types of jobs where there were large numbers of foreign workers.

Hundreds of low - wage workers and advocates descended upon Albany today to urge the Senate and Assembly to pass legislation that would raise the state minimum wage to $ 10.10, index it to inflation, and allow cities and counties to set their wages 30 percent higher than the state's minimum.

Perhaps rattled by his relatively anemic win in last year's Democratic primary against liberal long shot Zephyr Teachout, he has quelled key camps of left - wing opposition by unilaterally banning fracking, raising wages for fast - food workers and endorsing a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage.

Because of the two different minimum wages, for fast food workers and the rest of workers, an employee at McDonald's or Burger King could make $ 100 more a week than a home health care worker or grocery store cashier.

In what could set off a major City Hall battle, two City Council members from the Bronx plan to propose a bill on Tuesday that would guarantee wages of at least $ 10 an hour, nearly $ 3 above the minimum wage, to all workers at development projects receiving public subsidies.

«The Revised 421 - a Law was conditioned on the Real Estate Board of New York («REBNY») and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York («Construction Trades») reaching an agreement regarding the minimum wages to be paid to construction workers,» the group's letter read.

It was not the EU that smashed workers rights in this country but the neoliberal policies of successive British Governments for the last 37 years — Governments that reveled in the free market, that loved a flexible workforce, so flexible that 22 million workers in this country are on minimum wage and many have their wages supplemented with benefits just to survive.

Cuomo instead convened a wage board at the state Department of Labor to review potential changes to the minimum wage for workers in the fast - food industry, giving a nod to a growing campaign for better wages in that sector.

The push to raise the minimum wage for fast - food workers in New York was part of a broader campaign conducted nationally to increase wages to $ 15, a movement that has had success in Los Angeles and Seattle.

Continuing a push for the payment of higher wages for public - sector jobs, Cuomo announced a plan to raise the minimum wage for state university workers to $ 15.

Santos Rodriguez, who spoke on behalf of BCTC president Gary LaBarbera, noted that the new rule defeats the purpose of requiring minimum wages on certain projects, which is to assure workers get «paid appropriately while they are working.»

The wage schedule will apply to all airport workers, including groups that had been cut out of previous minimum wages.

Raise the wages of state workers making federal minimum wage because they aren't included under state minimum wage law.

Last month, McDonald's announced that it would raise its workers» wages to $ 10 an hour, higher than the minimum wage in most of the nation.

«There is no moral equivalency between the minimum wage, which effects hundreds of thousands of low paid workers in this state, and raising the wages of very affluent people,» Smith said.

Mohammed explained that the government would implement the recommendations of the tripartite committee on minimum wage, stressing that President Muhammadu Buhari was committed to implementing the outcomes of the ongoing negotiations for new wages for workers.

The rally was timed to coincide with the state labor board's first meeting to discuss requiring all fast food companies to raise wages for workers, who typically earn close to the current federal minimum of $ 8.75 an hour.

Cuomo's increasing of the minimum wage for state government workers could increase the pressure on private businesses and local governments to hike wages.

Instead, he said and some others said tonight at a town hall meeting, state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo should have been more judicious and spent money to help seniors and farmers instead of on NFL luxury boxes and subsidizing minimum wages for teen workers.

However, they did not attempt to account for factors such as differences in employment levels between 2008 and 2019, as well as differences in nominal wages between the two years, including the fact that Alberta will already have a $ 15 minimum wage in place by 2019, so this federal minimum proposal will not directly boost the wages of any workers in that province.

On March 11, Media Matters released a report showing that ABC's World News, the CBS Evening News, NBC's Nightly News, and the PBS NewsHour only mentioned the public cost of low minimum wages eight times in the last year — including how low wages force workers to rely on government programs, such as food stamps, housing vouchers, or other anti-poverty programs.

These include statutes such as the California Equal Pay Act, the Wage Theft Protection Act of 2011, and the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights, which pertain to issues involving work hours and wages, including meal periods, rest breaks, overtime, and minimum wage.

As a result, migrant workers are denied basic protections under the law, such as minimum wages, hours of work and more.

Wages are not paid until a worker has missed a minimum of two weeks of work.

As in Laval the point was made again that the only permissible protectionism here is under the Posted Worker Directive (96 / 71 / EC) which only protects legally fixed minimum wages, the irony here being that even under the German system (which is most likely to engage the directive on the basis not of a statutory minimum wage, but an «entrenched» collective agreement) this collective agreement was only a local and specific one and so not «entrenched».

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