Sentences with phrase «national minimum wage for»

From April, the national minimum wage for apprentices will be # 3.70 an hour for anyone under 19 (or over 19 and in the first year of the scheme).

In a bid to continue the momentum around apprenticeships, the Government have increased the national minimum wage for young apprentices by # 0.57 in October 2015 to # 3.30.

In MacCartney's case the EAT held that she was also entitled to the national minimum wage for this entire period.

Governing Body of Binfield Church of England Primary School v Roll EAT, January 18 2016; [2016] IRLR 670 School security guard not entitled to be paid National Minimum wage for time when he was on call to deal with emergencies, as he was sometimes away.

Last Monday, November 27, 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated a 30 - member tripartite National Minimum Wage Committee for the negotiation of a new National Minimum Wage for Nigerian workers.

In a bid to commence the negotiation of a new National Minimum Wage for the country, president Muhammadu Buhari Thursday approved the appointment of a 30 - member tripartite National Minimum Wage Committee.

Those between 18 and 21 must receive # 4.77 while the national minimum wage for those aged 16 or 17 is # 3.53.

Not exact matches

With the country locked in a national debate about what an appropriate living wage should be, pay — in particular the minimum hourly rate — has become a sticking point for many businesses and their workers.

Their early 1990s study Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast - Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (available for download here) showed «no indication that the rise in the minimum wage reduced employment» and sparked a national Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast - Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (available for download here) showed «no indication that the rise in the minimum wage reduced employment» and sparked a national minimum wage reduced employment» and sparked a national debate.

While some startups, such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

«As a club, we have paid the national minimum wage at the higher rate only for many years and in June this year we ensured that all directly employed staff were paid at least the real living wage.

Ford Motor Company, for example, will continue giving new mothers a full year's leave on full pay, while fathers — by far the majority of their workforce — will receive the bare minimum (around # 137 per week — lower than the national minimum wage!)

In 1994 - 5, whilst as Shadow Employment Secretary of State she formulated the policy for the National Minimum Wage, devising and campaigning for Labour's commitment to establish a Low Pay Commission.

While parents who are paid a higher hourly rate may indeed qualify for support by working a low number of hours per week, those who earn national minimum wage or national living wage will effectively have to work more hours to qualify for the same type of support - but those extra hours may not be available to them.

As state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo close in on a potential agreement for a $ 15 minimum wage and a 12 - week paid family leave program, the National Federation of Independent Business in raising an alarm over the likely compromise on the measures.

We need to be extremely cautious over the Scottish National Party's demand for devolving powers surrounding the minimum wage.

A row over the coalition's wavering enforcement of the national minimum wage is acting as a smokescreen for the real reason workers are being let down.

[76] At the conference, Miliband pledged to focus on six national goals for Britain until 2025, including boosting pay, apprenticeships and housing; a mansion tax and levy on tobacco companies to fund # 2.5 billion a year «time to care» fund for the NHS; a commitment to raise the minimum wage to # 8 or more by 2020; and a promise to lower the voting age to 16 ready for elections in 2016.

The governor already has formal endorsements in hand from several longtime backers, including 1199SEIU, which represents health care workers and supported Cuomo's push to increase the minimum wage; the National Organization for Women; the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union; and the Human Rights Campaign, which worked with Cuomo in pushing to legalize same - sex marriage.

The strike's demands include a national healthcare system, a $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave for at least six months, free childcare and full - access, coercion - free reproductive freedom.

Three others received between 28 and 33 votes — not enough to establish a minority position — on the excessively revolutionary issues of gaps in anti-discrimination legislation, increasing numbers of parent governors at academy schools, changing balloting arrangements for school selections, and strengthening enforcement of the national minimum wage.

«It's utterly unprecedented in the United States,» said Paul Sonn, legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project in Washington, D.C. «We're not aware of any state that has adopted a tax credit remotely resembling this one, which will have the taxpayer pick up the tab for the cost of the minimum wage increase for a certain category of worker.»

The Fiscal Policy Institute and the National Employment Law Project make the case for letting local communities set their own minimum wage.

«The increase in national minimum wage and national living wage is very welcome news for those on low pay, however businesses can still do more to help those employed earn enough to escape working poverty.

The Deputy President of the Senate, Mr Ike Ekweremadu, has called for an upward review of the national minimum wage, in order to improve the living...

In a letter opposing the hike, a lawyer for the National Restaurant Association argues the increase unfairly applies to only national chain restaurants and infringes on the legislature's authority to pass minimum wage inNational Restaurant Association argues the increase unfairly applies to only national chain restaurants and infringes on the legislature's authority to pass minimum wage innational chain restaurants and infringes on the legislature's authority to pass minimum wage increases.

Jay Holland is the Government Affairs Coordinator for the National Restaurant Association: «The wage board process was completely unfair and arbitrarily targeted certain businesses for a minimum wage increase without justification.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made national headlines Tuesday when he announced the minimum wage for state employees will be raised to $ 15 an hour.

The increase in the apprentice National Minimum Wage will halve the gap with the rate for 16 to 17 year olds, which will increase by two per cent, from # 3.79 to # 3.87 per hour.

De Blasio's trip comes after he traveled to Washington last spring to launch a national campaign called the Progressive Agenda to push for changes in national economic policy, including a $ 15 minimum wage, closing the carried - interest tax loophole and national paid sick leave and paid family leave.

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I will be doing the summation for the National Minimum Wage debate.

It notes the MP for Henley on Thames supported the election of George W Bush in 2000 and 2004, voted for the war in Iraq, opposed the Kyoto treaty, opposed the national minimum wage and pension rights for part - time workers and defended Section 28.

State Democratic Committee Executive Director Basil Smikle on Monday cheered the adoption of support for a $ 15 federal minimum wage by the platform committee of the Democratic National Convention.

Just know that none of these Conservative candidates nor Ms. Gillibrand have significantly taken a line drawn in the sand on 1) writing their own jobs bill for national consequence 2) Fracking position definitively 3) Major student loan reform 4) Raising minimum wage 5) Single Payer Health Care, or bringing back Glass - Steagall.

There isn't much for Cuomo to find concerning Perez in charge of the national party: Buffalo guy, supporter of a $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave, etc..

If Marcie's # 225 earnings are derived from being on or near the minimum wage, then there is a double hit for her because she also can not salary sacrifice to save 12 per cent National Insurance, if such an arrangement would take her pay below the level of the applicable minimum wage rate (# 7.83 per hour in 2018/19 for those aged 25 and over).3 Anne Fairpo said: «One of the concerns about allowing the lowest earners to sacrifice salary has been the risk of their pay dropping below the point at which entitlement to contributory benefits is triggered (the Lower Earnings Limit - # 116 per week in 2018/19).

Kicking of the latest phase of the push for a $ 15 minimum wage in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday said the effort to push for economic justice is a national issue.

«Increasing the National Minimum Wage is a good thing, but pretending it is a Living Wage is farcical propaganda which undermines the campaign for a real Living Wage.

The factional NLC leader stated, was demanding N90, 000 national minimum wage based on the current exchange rate, noting that should the exchange rate go above N500 per dollar, NLC would demand for more than N90, 000.

Provisions for «youth contracts» should be made, allowing firms to take on under - 25s without adhering to employment regulations that currently price them out of the market, such as the national minimum wage.

This is all the more pernicious at a time of high youth unemployment, yet there was not a single prosecution for breaching the National Minimum Wage in the first two years of this government.

As expected, lawyers for the National Retaurant Association have filed a court challenge to the Cuomo administration's plan to increase the minimum wage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour through an administrative order that circumvented the Legislature.

TV commercials for Cuomo's $ 15 - anhour minimum wage push are aimed at winning him the keynote speaking role at the Democratic National Convention in July — the same role that turned his father into a potential presidential candidate 32 years ago, Democratic insiders tell Fred Dicker.

«We are listening to workers who can not make it with 8 or 9 bucks an hour which is why we're going to fight for 15 an hour national minimum wage,» Sanders said.

Mr Corbyn is a red - hot favourite to win the contest against Owen Smith, who is today trying to seize the initiative from his rival with a call for a sharp rise in the national minimum wage.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.