Sentences with phrase «costs of the minimum wage increase»

«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.»

«If you're McDonald's, you can raise McNuggets by a quarter to help pay for the cost of a minimum wage increase,» Liebman said.

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Food is a restaurant's most expensive cost after labour, said Rilett, who anticipates another bump in prices when the minimum wage impact ripples into the price of food as farmers, processors and others also face increased costs.

Stores that paid employees minimum wage, or close to it, were faced with the difficult task of attempting to find a way to turn a profit even with increased employee costs.

But it has failed to recover in recent years because of a series of policies that increase the burden on small - business owners — higher taxes, increases to health - care costs, more costly regulations, and now the minimum wage increase proposal

It will drive employers with part - time and / or lower - income employees to significantly modify their scheduling practices, at a time when they are also absorbing the costs of an increased minimum wage and dealing with the complexity of the new paid family leave act.»

A massive 67 percent minimum wage increase, which would lead to job losses, higher costs of goods and increased property taxes, will devastate small businesses and family farms, particularly Upstate.»

That includes items like ending the 18 - a energy tax, dealing with out - of - network health costs, and preventing another minimum wage increase.

Cuomo this year unsuccessfully pushed a minimum wage increase that would provide for geographical cost - of - living concerns: $ 11.50 for New York City and $ 10.50 elsewhere in the state.

In 2013, Kennedy co-sponsored legislation to increase the state minimum wage to $ 9 an hour, and automatically adjust the minimum wage to account for cost - of - living increases.

He also expressed concern over businesses having to take on the costs of increasing minimum wage pay.

Governor Cuomo has proposed raising the minimum wage as part of his budget plan, even though the increase would not cost New York State any money.

Cuomo says he's putting together a «special modification» for the agricultural industry to help offset potential costs of increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

It estimates that a minimum wage increase of $ 7.15 to $ 8.25 an hour (which is even less than the 21 percent hike proposed in the Executive Budget) would cost a total of 28,990 jobs in New York.

Among the bills to be paid is the cost to hospitals and other Medicaid providers of complying with Cuomo's increase in the state minimum wage — the impact of which keeps getting bigger.

Other scholars, however, say much of the research — declaring minimum wage increases don't cost jobs — is faulty.

However, the budget will also add to the cost of doing business by extending assessments on electric, natural gas and steam energy, for a total cost of nearly $ 1.5 billion, half of which will be paid by business, and by increasing the minimum wage — a measure whose impact will be felt by many business, with total cost estimates as high as $ 2 billion per year once fully implemented.

Pressure is likely to increase in the coming years due to the rising costs of health care, pharmaceutical prices and a new minimum wage.

The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».

Scharff says a hike in the minimum wage should also be indexed to inflation, so that it would rise as the cost of living increases.

But Farrell says he might object to a provision that would hold future minimum wage increases to the cost of living index.

Seneca County is among 50 entities that make up the Minimum Wage Reality Check campaign, which contends that a 67 percent minimum wage hike will end in job losses, tax increases and a higher cost of Minimum Wage Reality Check campaign, which contends that a 67 percent minimum wage hike will end in job losses, tax increases and a higher cost of livWage Reality Check campaign, which contends that a 67 percent minimum wage hike will end in job losses, tax increases and a higher cost of minimum wage hike will end in job losses, tax increases and a higher cost of livwage hike will end in job losses, tax increases and a higher cost of living.

This increase was a welcome relief for after school programs that have been in dire need based on minimum wage and other increases in the cost of doing business in the face of flat funding.

But, the two together are a multiplier, doubling the cost of a minimum wage employee over bit more than a decade, and of course increasing the whole salary schedule significantly.

It is perplexing to me that the budget included money for dropout and truancy prevention, but ignored the needs of our 4,500 publicly funded after school programs in CA, that are dying on the vine because of cost pressures from the minimum wage increases.

In these hard economic times, too many Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland people, and British Columbians who lived free of financial crisis until now, find themselves facing the shame of debt they can not repay after taking out too much easy credit just to live, pay for necessities such as housing, food, medicine, etc., a reflection of our ever growing senior and minimum wage population funded with insufficient pensions and facing rising living costs without corresponding increase in earnings.

Furthermore, the minimum wage should be increased each year with the cost of living.

The cost impact of an increased minimum wage for Ontario employers may be great, especially for smaller to mid-sized employers, with limited resources and tight profit margins.

Stakeholder response to this consultation confirmed support for the commitment of the provincial government to establish a standardized approach for determining minimum wage that is tied to an inflationary measure and ensures that future adjustments keep pace with increases in the cost of living in Newfoundland and Labrador.