Sentences with phrase «called living wage»

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced new compromise legislation on Friday that would require only companies receiving direct subsidies from the city to pay employees the so - called living wage, which is a few dollars more than the minimum wage.

Labour will promise a tax rebate for firms who pay their staff the so - called living wage, which is # 8.55 an hour in London, and # 7.45 elsewhere.

De Blasio, who delivered his speech under a banner that read «One New York Rising Together,» his election slogan, promised to expand the city's so - called living wage, and to ask Albany for permission to raise the minimum wage in the five boroughs.

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To determine its cost - of - living adjustment, the SSA uses an inflation measure called the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or the CPI - W.

The proposal called for Loblaw to review the feasibility, cost and benefits of implementing a living wage policy for its employees, suppliers and contractors.

It's called deconstruction and the GOP is leading the way because, as this nation knows all too well, the religious right of America hates to pay a fair living wage to workers, they prefer to enslave people to serve them.

Also at 10 a.m., Rochester - area leaders participate in a rally calling for the governor and Legislature to accelerate the process and ensure that direct support professionals receive the living wage they are entitled to — and that was agreed to in the state budget passed in April — by 2020, Heritage Christian Services» Pieters Family Life Center, 1025 Commons Way, Rochester.

Real estate groups typically oppose so - called living - wage requirements, arguing that they stifle development and hinder private investment.

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...

A group in one western Massachusetts city is pushing for what it calls a «living wage» WAMC's Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill reports.

Tyner called for a «living minimum wage» that would rise to $ 15 an hour by 2020 for companies employing 500 people or more; single - payer health care in New York state; a tax system that would reduce the burden of school taxes on property owners; and the legalization of small amounts of recreational marijuana for adults.

At the January 12th membership meeting the Village Independent Democrats endorsed a letter to Speaker Christine Quinn applauding her support of the Fair Wage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our cWage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our cwage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our cwage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our city.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat manifesto recognised the need to support vocational education and invest in apprenticeships, as well as calling for public sector organisations becoming living wage employers.

But Mr Corbyn cited research by Shelter, which found families on the upcoming National Living Wage would be unable to afford his so - called starter homes in 98 % of local authority areas in England.

On the left there is a predictable reluctance to call it a «living wage», and an insistence that it is insufficiently high to compensate for the cuts elsewhere in last week's budget.

Listen to Mike Cherry talk to the Today Programme on calls for all firms to pay the Living Wage.

Dr John Sentamu used a comment piece for the Observer newspaper to call for more to be done to help the five million people who earn above the minimum wage of # 6.19 per hour, but not enough for a basic standard of living.

The union has been at the forefront of a global campaign for Fast Food Workers Rights which calls for a living wage http://fastfoodrights.wordpress.com/

Earlier this week Ed Miliband called for tougher measures to see the «living wage» more widely paid, but argued that it could have benefits beyond just those receiving more pay.

Mayor Bloomberg says the so - called living - wage bill is «poorly thought out and will not work.»

«I'm calling on the City Council to put forth legislation that would give back the authority for us to look at living wage.»

On Thursday, Diaz could boast that he worked with the mayor's office to jumpstart a new round of development proposals for the armory this January, and that Speaker Quinn is likely to introduce a bill this year that incorporates some of the living wage proposals that Diaz called for in 2009.

From more shared ownership options to fix the housing crisis, via a call to make unpaid internships illegal, to making the UK a Living Wage nation by 2025 at the latest, its proposals are far - reaching.

Around 28,000 young workers in Wales will miss out on the UK Government's so - called «national living wage» despite still being hit by tax credit cuts, figures published by the Welsh Liberal Democrats reveal.

Under the bill projects like the Coney Island redevelopment, the Hudson Yards, the Intrepid, all built with city tax breaks, would have to pay their workers a so - called «living wage» of $ 10 a hour with benefits, or $ 11.50 without benefits, instead of the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25.

But she stressed that she differed with Bloomberg on a number of policy issues, including the closing of firehouses, living wage and prevailing wage bills, and his homeless policy, which she called «punitive» and «cruel.»

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CITY HALL — The City Council faced off on controversial legislation Tuesday that would force developers who receive big city grants to pay their workers a so - called «living wage.»

Liu was one of three IDA board members to vote against the living wage study, calling the proposal a «sham.»

Howie Hawkins is running on a Green New Deal platform, calling for the state to invest in the transition to a carbon neutral economy as a way to provide living wage jobs to put New Yorkers back to work.

CITY HALL — Nearly 100 clergy members marched silently to the City Council chambers Wednesday to demand that officials pass a bill that would force developers who get city cash to pay workers a so - called «living wage.»

At a hastily - called press conference at City Hall, Quinn, who was joined by fellow council members and the head of the retail workers» union, announced plans to introduce a new «living wage» bill that will force developers receiving more than a $ 1 million in city subsidies to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50 without — significantly more than the $ 7.25 minimum wage.

In this, and other areas, Miliband's thinking shows clear signs of influence by the campaign group London Citizens, which is calling for a «living wage» of # 7.60 — higher than the current minimum wage at # 5.80.

In a phone interview, he called on the panel to strengthen language in the guidelines insisting on a «living wage» for workers building the SPURA project and for those working there once it's built.

«The so - called living and prevailing wage bills are a throwback to the era when government viewed the private sector as a cash cow to be milked, rather than a garden to be cultivated,» said Bloomberg, in what aides said was his first public veto address.

«From championing the DREAM Act to fighting for the $ 15 minimum wage to supporting affordable housing, Assemblyman Moya is truly dedicated to bettering the lives of the families that call this city home,» the pols wrote.

We are proud to stand with Fight for $ 15 in calling for a living wage and the right to join a union.

Prior to getting that job, I worked in hotels, grocery stores, tempt at a call center and worked in assisted living all for minimum wage and no benefits.

To determine its cost - of - living adjustment, the SSA uses an inflation measure called the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, or the CPI - W.

The school classifies me as part time because they want to avoid paying me benefits, but they double the pay rate on a so - called 20 hours a week to make sure I still get a living wage.

Frank, honest and heartfelt — the pictures and accompanying words set out to highlight the charity's UK Poverty campaign, which aims to call on the government to encourage more employers to pay the living wage, strengthen the new Universal Credit welfare system and help parents afford to work by providing extra child care support.

She comes across here as an increasingly vehement avenging angel waging a kind of war with the camera, using it to expose what might be called both the tyranny and the inner lives of images, especially the images of women that bombard and shape all of us at every turn.

Employers complain about the new higher minimum wage (the so - called «living wage»); the «apprenticeship levy» (a payroll tax for large companies); restrictions on skilled migrant workers; and the requirement for large companies to publish their gender pay gaps.

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Injured workers and their advocates have long called for wage loss compensation to be based on the worker's «real life» employment situation.

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