Sentences with phrase «york hourly workers»

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Now workers in Shake Shack's New York City locations have a starting hourly wage of $ 12.50, which is 50 cents more than the city's fast food minimum wage of $ 12.

Steve Barnes, the TU's «Table Hopping» columnist, believes the governor's proposal to end the tipped hourly wage will significantly hurt New York's restaurant industry and its workers.

Through a gradual phase - in, state university workers would realize a $ 15 hourly wage by 2018 in New York City and by 2021 in the rest of the state.

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that the governor's latest wage board is poised to recommend hiking the hourly pay of New York's fast food workers all the way to $ 15, and the state's Labor Commissioner is expected to sign off on that recommendation.

Since the governor's wage board hiked the hourly pay of tipped workers in New York by 50 percent, a growing number of restaurants are establishing «no tipping» policies.

A better tool to target help for poor working people, they say, is the income tax credit that can boost hourly income for workers to more than $ 10 an hour, according to Russell Sykes, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for New York State Policy.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced new regulations Friday that seek to crack down on employers keeping hourly workers «on call,» available to be called in at a moment's notice.

ALBANY — State officials will increase the minimum wage for employees of the State University of New York to $ 15, part of a larger push by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to increase the hourly rate for workers statewide.

Cuomo announced State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Chairman Carl McCall had hiked the minimum hourly wage for 28,000 State University of New York workers.

Andrew Cuomo's office says that will initially affect about 1,000 office assistants, custodial workers and lifeguards in New York City, whose hourly wage will reach $ 15 by the end of 2018.

In a letter to Cuomo and legislative leaders, the New York State Restaurant Association said its members will struggle to cope with the already approved increase in the hourly wage for tipped workers that takes effect Thursday and will not be able to afford any further hikes.