Sentences with phrase «fast food workers pay»

If there was ever a reason for revolution in the streets, it should be the fact that wealthy Canadians pay tax on only half of the income they derive from flipping stocks, bonds, and real estate — while fast food workers pay tax on every dollar of the hard - earned income they derive from flipping burgers in greasy, dangerous kitchens.

Not exact matches

Throw in an uncertain economic outlook and industrywide pressures to increase the pay of fast - food workers, and restaurants have looked like an increasingly unappetizing stew to investors — making their stocks among the biggest losers in this year's market dip.

And, whether workers succeed in getting a pay raise or not, the strike and the surrounding scrutiny of the fast - food industry is going to affect everyone in the business.

Over the last two years, the movement has brought national attention upon the issue of minimum wage, with a special focus on how much fast - food chains pay workers.

A key component of the package is a requirement that fast food restaurants schedule their workers at least two weeks in advance or pay extra for shift changes.

As McDonald's moves to boost pay for its company - owned U.S. restaurants — about 90,000 workers or roughly 10 percent of its locations nationwide — the question now is whether pressure will mount for the fast food chain's franchises to follow suit.

Fast - food workers from McDonald's and other chains on Wednesday are participating in the latest in a series of national protests calling for higher pay and better working conditions.

McDonald's: Fast - food workers deserve $ 15 an hour and a union so we can pay our rent and support our families.

New York's fast - food workers are getting a pay raise to $ 15 an hour, up from $ 8.75, in a move driven by Gov. Cuomo to help the economy.

That wage will only apply to government workers, and more importantly, fast - food workers, the latter of which rank among the lowest paid workers in New York, earning $ 15,954 / year on average.

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.

Please force all Fast food workers to pay for my brocolli I need to get free with every visit, so I am healthy.

«He stood with fast food workers and airport workers in their fight for better wages and benefits, and has been a strong supporter of a $ 15 state minimum wage and a paid family leave policy that can truly help working families.»

The Legislature passed a bill Friday that requires Upstate minimum wage workers who aren't fast food workers to be paid a minimum wage of $ 12.50 an hour beginning Dec. 31, 2020.

Cuomo, in an animated speech, said fast food chains make huge profits while relying on taxpayer subsidies, like food stamps, to make up for the low pay they give their workers.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Fast food workers in Upstate New York could soon demand $ 100 more a week in pay than all other minimum wage employees in the region.

Momentum is building for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage in Connecticut, at least for some workers, given the formation of a new low - wage worker advisory panel and this week's recommendation to raise pay for fast - food workers in neighboring New York, according to some state lawmakers and activists.

So fast food workers could be earning $ 15 an hour in 2021 while all other minimum wage workers are paid $ 2.50 an hour less.

Cuomo, after the state spending plan was agreed upon, concedes that there will likely be a discrepancy between the pay of fast food workers and others, for a time.

So in May he started repair work with the announcement that a state wage board would consider the idea of increasing the minimum pay of fast - food workers.

The state's three - member wage board was established in May, at Governor Andrew Cuomo's request, to offer recommendations on fast - food worker pay.

«Singling out fast food restaurants while ignoring other industries that hire workers who are paid under $ 15 is unfair and discriminatory, harms New York workers, and puts some New York businesses — including mine and my fellow New York McDonald's franchisees — at a competitive disadvantage,» said Jack Bert, who owns seven locations in Queens.

The Fight for $ 15 isn't universally popular: Some people wonder why fast food workers deserve higher pay than other minimum wage workers.

The broad - based move follows recent efforts to increase wages in particular industries — last year, Cuomo leveraged a state wage board to boost hourly pay for fast - food workers, and used executive action to do the same for an estimated 10,000 state workers.

The wage board recommends that by the end of 2021, fast food companies with 30 or more establishments pay their workers $ 15 an hour across 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.

Is it really too much to ask that fast - food workers should be given regular hours and fair pay, so that they can contribute by paying tax and national insurance that could not only be ploughed into our economy, but would also save the taxpayer a fortune in benefits payments?

One of the unintended consequences of the new minimum wage deal: Fast food workers upstate could soon demand $ 100 more a week in pay than all other minimum wage employees in the region.

Governor Cuomo, at a large union rally in NYC's Union Square to raise the minimum wage, called out fast food chains McDonalds and Burger King by name and accused them of «corporate greed» for under paying workers.

After hearing testimony from dozens of fast - food workers, the board members decided the state should mandate that fast - food chains pay more.

The fast - food wage board was charged with recommending a pay increase for workers in that industry.

Currently, the minimum pay for fast - food workers is $ 12 an hour in New York City and $ 10.75 in the rest of the state.

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.

Fast Food Rights actions will take place in London, Glasgow, Sheffield, Manchester, Darlington, Leeds, Birmingham, Leicester, Cardiff and Southampton (For details: fastfoodrights.wordpress.com) One fast food worker on a zero hours contract said, «I'm joining the 15 April global day of action because zero hours contracts and low pay are no way to lFast Food Rights actions will take place in London, Glasgow, Sheffield, Manchester, Darlington, Leeds, Birmingham, Leicester, Cardiff and Southampton (For details: fastfoodrights.wordpress.com) One fast food worker on a zero hours contract said, «I'm joining the 15 April global day of action because zero hours contracts and low pay are no way to lFood Rights actions will take place in London, Glasgow, Sheffield, Manchester, Darlington, Leeds, Birmingham, Leicester, Cardiff and Southampton (For details: fastfoodrights.wordpress.com) One fast food worker on a zero hours contract said, «I'm joining the 15 April global day of action because zero hours contracts and low pay are no way to lfast food worker on a zero hours contract said, «I'm joining the 15 April global day of action because zero hours contracts and low pay are no way to lfood worker on a zero hours contract said, «I'm joining the 15 April global day of action because zero hours contracts and low pay are no way to live.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's second wage board, charged with considering an hourly pay increase for workers in the state's fast food industry, holds its first public hearing in Buffalo today.

At the same time, fast food workers and activists in 33 other countries around the world will also be taking action against low pay.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo — joined by Vice President Biden — is expected to push today for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage for all workers statewide after the acting state labor commissioner gives final approval to a recommendation raising hourly pay for fast food workers to that amount.

Schneiderman touted his record, which he says includes getting back pay owed to fast food workers, cracking down on opioid and heroin abuse, and convincing gun show operators to voluntarily close legal loopholes and require background checks for purchases.

But the raises start Dec. 31, when fast - food workers» minimum pay goes to $ 9.75 an hour.

A flurry of executive activity was capped off by the finding of his fast food wage board that workers in the industry should be paid a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage.

Last year, poorly paid fast food workers throughout New York City also fighting for a $ 15 an minimum wage staged one - day walkouts on several occasions - and even attracted the outspoken support of then mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio in the process.

As CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported, sources say the offer to hike the minimum wage, which could have put money in the pockets of thousands of fast - food workers and others who toil for base pay, was offered as part of a deal to revamp disability pensions for cops and firefighters injured in the line of duty.

In July, the wage board recommended that large fast - food chains pay their workers $ 15 an hour by 2019 in New York City and mid-way through 2021 in the rest of the state.

«It should be no surprise to New Yorkers that Gov. Cuomo intends to effectively amend the Human Rights Law without consulting the State Legislature; not long ago, the Governor overstepped the bounds of his executive authority in regard to the minimum wage to be paid to fast - food workers,» said Rev. Jason McGuire, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms.

Scharff, with Citizen Action believes that even without a law to raise the minimum wage for all sectors of the economy, retail businesses will pay their workers more, or risk losing them to higher paying fast food jobs.

Thanks to a decision from New York's latest wage board, convened by Governor Andrew Cuomo, all qualifying upstate fast food chains are now required to pay their workers $ 9.75 per hour.

A quirk in the newly enacted minimum wage increase could mean that in upstate New York by the early 2020's, fast food workers could be paid significantly more than other low wage jobs, like being a home health care worker or a cashier in a grocery store.

This process is bound to result in a significant increase for fast - food workers in New York because their typical pay of less than $ 9 an hour is clearly not enough to pass Wage Board muster.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo today applauded his wage board's ruling that fast food industry workers should receive $ 15 an hour for their labor — and shrugged off claims from business groups that the new pay floor will result in layoffs.

In May, Governor Andrew Cuomo requested the Wage Board consider hiking pay for fast - food workers.