Sentences with phrase «employing minimum wage workers»

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The icing on the cake is that G. Neil employs no minimum - wage workers of its own, so its payroll is unaffected by the law.

«We are seeing a creeping erosion of employment rights as companies misclassify their workers as self - employed so as to avoid paying them holiday pay and the national minimum wage,» she said.

Because many companies employing low - wage workers face too much competition to pass the increased labor cost on to customers, a higher minimum wage would mean lower small business profits or costly investment in labor saving equipment.

The soft cap could be even lower if the bank employs contract workers earning the minimum wage of 5,000 shekels ($ 1,314) a month.

Tipped employees at restaurants employing less than 500 workers will earn at least a $ 10 minimum cash wage, a 53 cent hike from the current minimum.

The food service industry employs most of the country's minimum wage workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and within that sector fast food jobs are typically among those that pay the lowest hourly rates.

For workers in New York City employed by small businesses (those with 10 employees or fewer), the minimum wage would rise to $ 10.50 by the end of 2016, then another $ 1.50 each year after, reaching $ 15 on 12/31/2019.

For workers in New York City employed by large businesses (those with at least 11 employees), the minimum wage would rise to $ 11 at the end of 2016, then another $ 2 each year after, reaching $ 15 on 12/31/2018.

As part of a policy review, Miliband proposes sanctions against labour agencies that advertise solely for immigrant workers, an early warning system if some industries are employing disproportionately large number of foreign workers, a doubling of fines if employers undercut the minimum wage, and no early lifting of migrant barriers for new EU countries such as Croatia.

In his straddle over the political center, Mr. Cuomo proposes to balance the minimum wage increase with a significant — indeed, almost startling — cut in corporate tax rates for businesses that employ fewer than 100 workers and have a net annual income of less than $ 390,000.

In fact, a 66 percent majority of minimum wage workers are employed by businesses, but with over 100 employees.

People who clean NYC's streets and parks will be left out of the mayoral edict to raise the minimum wage for public workers because they are not directly employed by the city.

In March 2013, State Senate Republicans had included in the budget a tax credit for businesses employing teenage minimum - wage workers.

The bulk of minimum wage workers ARE N'T even employed by SMALL businesses.

It also demands the passage of laws guaranteeing renters an attorney in housing court, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, more construction projects employing union workers and local residents, more supportive housing for people with HIV, and an end to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «cluster - site» housing — where the city paid landlords $ 3,000 a month to put up homeless families, often in deplorable conditions.

But the requirement would only apply to workers directly employed by the companies receiving the benefits — not their tenants, meaning a restaurant like McDonald's renting in a subsidized could continue to pay its workers minimum wage.

The first such report in the United States grew out of a 1999 proposal to boost the minimum wage paid workers employed by contractors hired by the city of San Francisco.

The service industry employs the largest percentage of minimum wage workers.

The «gig economy» cases forcing this issue have seen individuals, engaged as «self - employed contractors» by Pimlico Plumbers, Uber, CitySprint, Addison Lee and other employers, claiming «worker» or «employee» status in order to qualify for national minimum wage, holiday pay and other concomitant rights.

Self - employed people have no employment rights whereas employed or worker status gives individuals employment rights such as the national minimum wage and holiday pay and if employed for two years or more, unfair dismissal rights.

The Deliveroo decision comes hard on the heels of the latest decision against Uber which lost its appeal against an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruling: that its drivers should be classified as workers with rights, such as holiday pay and a minimum wage, rather than being self - employed.

GMB brought two lead test cases to the Central London Employment Tribunal on 20th July 2016 and it has decided that Uber drivers are employed workers entitled to receive holiday pay, a guaranteed minimum wage and an entitlement to breaks.

Uber suffered another setback in London in October last year when an employment tribunal brought by two Uber drivers ruled they are workers, rather than self - employed contractors as Uber had tried to claim — making the company liable for paying holiday pay, paid rest breaks and the National Minimum Wage.

The company's drivers in the country are presently self - employed from a legal standpoint and only eligible for basic worker rights, not benefits like minimum wage and sick pay, though Uber previously said it's already paying them above the legal minimum for full - time workers.

However, National Minimum Wage is not available for anyone working in a self - employed capacity, company directors, voluntary workers, members of the armed forces or those on work placements.