Sentences with phrase «as wage and hour»

Like any significant business, utilities must deal with state and federal regulators, local land use, and statutory requirements that may specific to their industry or more general, such as wage and hour laws.

She tries cases alleging employment discrimination, harassment and retaliation, as well as wage and hour disputes, to verdict and through appeals.

Arsenio defends employers in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies across the United States in cases that allege employment discrimination, harassment and retaliation, as well as wage and hour disputes.

She also represented private sector employees in a wide variety of employment law matters such as wage and hour claims, unemployment compensation, and discrimination cases in state and federal court.

Not exact matches

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.

The Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938 as part of the New Deal, ushered in such innovations as the 40 - hour workweek, overtime pay, and the minimum wage.

Some are, as five states, including Mississippi and Louisiana, have no official minimum wage, and two more, Georgia and Wyoming, have a minimum wage of $ 5.15, or about $ 10 less an hour than full - time employees would need to make to be able to afford a two - bedroom.

By contrast, states such as Connecticut and California mandate that even entry - level workers receive about $ 10 an hour, while cities and, increasingly, states such as Illinois and New York are phasing in a new minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.

In cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, bills have been passed to gradually increase minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

The federal minimum wage is $ 7.25 per hour, but 30 states and the District of Columbia have higher state minimum wages that go as high as $ 11 in Washington state, and $ 11.50 in the District of Columbia, according to Lordan and Neumark.

Forty - seven per cent of respondents said Canada is more likely to lose jobs under the TPP as Canadian companies move manufacturing and other jobs to low - wage countries, such as Vietnam where the average wage is 65 cents an hour.

With support from the White House for a higher federal minimum wage, as well as two plans from congressional Democrats to hike the federal floor to $ 12 and $ 15 an hour by 2020, expect the wage debate to intensify in 2016 on the presidential campaign trail.

Now wage advocates are focused on 2016, as several states and cities including California and New York will consider proposals in the new year to gradually lift pay further to $ 15 an hour.

Think of these parables: the seed falling among good soil and bad soil; a tiny mustard seed becoming the largest tree; the landowner who paid the workers who laboured an hour the same wage as those working a full day; the foolish and wise builders constructing on rock and sand; the end times judgement of the sheep and the goats — and so on.

Often this comes about in conjunction with other agencies, as in the factory legislation which has made obsolete the twelve - hour day and the seven - day week, 6 established minimum wage levels, and eliminated the grosser forms of economic exploitation.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged a crowd of several hundred union members and others in Solvay on Wednesday to demand their state legislators pass a $ 15 an hour minimum wage this month as part of the state budget.

As Labour can not win with business, it has moved to the safer ground of defending the NHS and addressing the cost of living crisis with promises to put an end to zero - hours contracts, raise the minimum wage and invest in housing.

While there are compelling reasons from the perspective of poorly paid (or unemployed) workers in eastern and southern Europe to relocate to higher wage economies in the west and north of Europe, there is little incentive for British workers to go to the post-2004 EU countries where the quality of life is lower and minimum wage is as low as # 1.36 per hour, if it exists at all.

The initiative is creating at least 20,000 extra incentive payments worth # 1,500 for each young person taken on as an apprentice and a «wage incentive» of # 1,137.50 for young people employed for between 16 and 29 hours a week.

«Every working man and woman in the state of New York deserves $ 15 an hour as a minimum wage,» Cuomo shouted at rally last fall.

In addition, the higher figures reflect an increase in the number of teens who earn more than $ 8 but less than $ 9 an hour who would be available for the credit in succeeding years as the wage and credit rise.

Buffalo and Rochester are moving to raise the minimum wage of municipal employees to $ 15 an hour as part of Governor Andrew Cuomo's push to raise the wage floor for all workers.

Representative Charles Rangel, left, D - N.Y., listens as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as he and formally announced he would be using his executive authority to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour for all state employees.

The governor and leaders are also talking about raising the minimum wage, as part of the package and considering a phase in to $ 9 an hour over a three year period, but they say everything remains on the table until there's a deal.

On a host of other issues, Anderson lists noticeably to the right of Nader, despite praiseworthy planks such as raising the minimum wage to ten dollars per hour and slashing the Pentagon budget by 50 percent.

«As president, I will proudly stand with working families all across our country and fight for Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $ 15 an hour and provide paid family leave to every worker in America,» he said.

«It's about time that someone speaks the truth and tries to help low - wage workers,» remarked Sukoya Charles, a home health aide, who said she makes $ 10 per hour and needs to support her son as a single mom.

The governor proposed several initiatives that brought his platform further left towards liberal issues that de Blasio has been championing — such as increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, mandating 12 weeks of paid family leave and offering up $ 20 billion over the next five years to address homelessness by providing 20,000 more supportive housing beds and 100,000 units of affordable housing.

As part of New York state's 2016 - 17 state budget, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that promises an increase in minimum wage from $ 9 to $ 15 per hour in New York City and its surrounding areas by 2021.

This ballot is all about fighting for a # 10 per hour minimum wage, and the need for McDonald's to recognise their workers» right to form a trade union, as employees of the company.

As he continues to roll out top priorities of his State of the State / budget address, Gov. Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed raising New York's minimum wage to $ 10.50 an hour and boosting the baseline for hourly pay in New York City to $ 11.50.

The existing living wage, as judged by the Living Wage Foundation is # 7.85 per hour across the UK and # 9.15 in Lonwage, as judged by the Living Wage Foundation is # 7.85 per hour across the UK and # 9.15 in LonWage Foundation is # 7.85 per hour across the UK and # 9.15 in London.

New York senators say the state should help nursing homes, hospitals and home health aide companies pay higher labor costs if the minimum wage climbs to $ 15 an hour, as Cuomo proposed.

The Utica Observer - Dispatch says the governor's plan to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour «could put a severe dent in many operations and short - circuit the energy they are creating as the upstate region claws its way back to prosperity,» adding: «For that reason alone, Cuomo's wage hike should be rejected.»

Workers are also calling for a fair # 10 per hour minimum wage, less insecure working hours, acceptable working conditions and the recognition of their right to form a trade union as employees of the company.

$ 15 dollar an hour as minimum wage phased in over 5 or more years is not crazy, in fact polling here in NY show it to be quite popular, besides when and if it passes the legislature it most likely won't be as high as $ 15 an hour.

At 9 a.m., Walmart workers, clergy, and supporters fast outside the estate of Alice Walton, whose family owns half of Walmart, as part of a national day of action to «demonstrate the hunger crisis for Walmart workers and their families that are struggling to put food on the table this holiday season,» and protest for a $ 15 - an - hour minim wage, 515 Park Ave., Manhattan.

As for the minimum wage, Cuomo said last weekend that he would support the Working Families Party's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 10.10 per hour and to allow individual communities to seek state approval to set their own minimum wages up to 30 percent above.

He will commit to implementing a «true» living wage of # 8.25 an hour as recommended by the Living Wage Foundation, and extend the offer to all workers over the age ofwage of # 8.25 an hour as recommended by the Living Wage Foundation, and extend the offer to all workers over the age ofWage Foundation, and extend the offer to all workers over the age of 18.

As «Taking Care of Our Caretakers» shows, raising home and healthcare worker wages to $ 15 per hour will do more than just raise the wage — it will raise up New York's economy, save the state and local municipalities $ 330 million in public assistance funding, and halt the high turnover of workers in this critically important field.

Lawmakers plan on leaving for the summer on June 21st, but they continue to be gridlocked on the issues of raising the state's minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 8.50 an hour, and offering tax breaks to small businesses as an incentive to create more jobs.

Mr. Cuomo's office said the state worker wage phase - in would follow the same calendar as his fast food pay plan: taking full effect for workers in New York City by 2018 and for the rest of the state by 2020, with the lowest paid workers getting $ 10.50 an hour by the end of this year and $ 12 by the end of next.

And then we did it again earlier this year, as Governor Cuomo successfully pushed for New York to enact a $ 15 per hour minimum wage across all industries for all workers.

As part of the new state budget, New York's minimum wage will rise to $ 15 in New York City and at least $ 12.50 - an - hour upstate over the course of several years.

This task force includes the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Erie County Sheriff's Office, the US Dept. of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, the US Dept. of Labor, Wage and Hour, US Border Patrol, the International Institute of Buffalo, Farmworker Legal Services, as well as the Missing and Exploited Children.

Not included in the senate budget is an increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour as the Assembly and Governor Cuomo have proposed.

New York State's minimum wage, currently $ 8.75 per hour, will increase to $ 9 for all workers at the end of 2015, as Cuomo, along with other lawmakers and advocates for low - wage employees, continue to champion a future increase to $ 15 for all workers.

Mr. Hawkins visited Times offices recently, making the drive from Syracuse in the Hyundai Accent that doubles as his campaign office, and spoke about his «Green New Deal» for New York, which would raise the minimum wage in the state to $ 15 an hour, establish a publicly funded single - payer health care program and provide public works jobs for the unemployed.

«A Real Choice» seeks to portray Hawkins as the everyman candidate and quickly gives his stances on five issues, including his pledges to ban hydrofracking and for a $ 15.00 per hour minimum wage.

An Empire Center analysis released earlier this month predicted that a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage — a nearly 70 percent hike over the current minimum — would cost New York at least 200,000 jobs, and perhaps as many as 588,800.