Sentences with phrase «federal minimum wage of»

The Housing Wage for a two - bedroom apartment is $ 13.96 higher than the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25, and $ 4.83 higher than the average hourly wage of $ 16.38 earned by renters nationwide.

A household earning the federal minimum wage of $ 5.15 an hour can afford a one - bedroom apartment at these areas» average rental rate.

Nationally, we found that saving 5 % of the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 would require just over 11 years to meet the lowest possible down payment on a home at the current national median value.

The federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 applies in states with lower minimum wage and in states with no legal minimum wage.

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.

Among those disincentives is the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 an hour, which applies to Puerto Rico.

Then, the state leaped ahead of the federal minimum wage of $ 5.15 and began making employers pay $ 6 an hour, with subsequent increases to $ 7.15 by 2007.

Many Democrats are calling for a federal minimum wage of $ 15 an hour, or at least that amount on the state and local levels.

The workers and labor unions want a federal minimum wage of $ 15.

Attorneys for cheerleaders maintain that their clients» effective pay has been about $ 3 dollars per hour, which is less than half of the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 per hour.

In the event, the Commission awarded a much more moderate increase in award wages of $ 10 a week and established a new federal minimum wage of $ 359.40 a week for full - time adult employees.

Chief Executive Doug McMillon recently said the company would improve opportunities for workers, including getting the roughly 6,000 people who make the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 an hour at its stores off that rate.

The Department of Labor's proposed rule would only apply to businesses that paid employees at least the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 an hour.

MOD Pizza has a base hourly salary of $ 10.50 per hour, well above the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25.

The Fight for $ 15, a worldwide effort to raise wages and strengthen unions, has successfully led to better pay in many places since its launch in 2012, and a proposed federal minimum wage of $ 15 an hour was part of the Democratic Party platform in 2016.

Not exact matches

In June 2014, he issued an executive order raising the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors to $ 10.10.

Raising the federal minimum wage to $ 10.10 from its current level, a 39 percent increase, would lift close to one million workers out of poverty, according to a 2014 report by the Congressional Budget Office.

A 2016 study examining 78 years of federal minimum wage hikes in the U.S. (between 1938 and 2009) showed no correlation between those increases and job losses, even in sectors most affected by such policies.

No comprehensive study has yet been done to estimate the impact of a $ 15 an hour federal minimum wage on jobs.

In this case, the American Enterprise Institute took some restaurant industry employment data for Seattle from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and blamed a higher minimum wage for the worst decline in restaurant jobs since the Great Recession.

Though he once was against raising the federal hourly minimum wage of $ 7.25, Trump now supports an increase to $ 10 per hour.

In Vermont, where the minimum wage is currently $ 8.60 and has been above the federal level and indexed to inflation since 2007, small business owners don't think much about the annual wage increases anymore, says Betsy Bishop, president of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce.

(A handful of states, including Alabama, Arkansas and Minnesota, mandate even less than the federal minimum wage, which was established as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and contained exemptions for some poorer states.)

Although the federal minimum wage has not risen since 2007 — and not for a full decade prior — the President's proposal, which also indexes the wage to inflation, riled a lot of small business advocates.

Currently, certain kinds of small businesses are exempt from paying employees the federal minimum wage, such as businesses with annual revenues less than $ 500,000, companies that transact within a single state, seasonal businesses, or companies that rely on contract workers.

It does note that there are «studies» that show «raising the federal minimum wage — which has not changed since 2009 — to just $ 10.10 per hour would pull more than half of the nation's working poor out of poverty.»

President Barack Obama encouraged an across - the - board raise that would lift the federal hourly minimum from $ 7.25 today to $ 10.10 by 2016 in his recent State of the Union address, and 13 states raised their minimum wage on January 1.

Under federal wage law, employers who pay the tipped minimum wage, which is lower than the standard minimum wage of $ 7.25 per hour, can't pool and share tips with non-tipped workers.

The Department of Labor lawsuit, originally filed in 2012, alleged that the company flouted the federal Fair Labor Standards Act because its workers weren't making minimum wage ($ 7.25 an hour) when their bosses required them to take unpaid breaks, according to the Associated Press.

Continuing on the topic of jobs, raising the minimum wage beyond the $ 7.25 federal hourly rate is a key ballot initiative for this midterm cycle in several red states including Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and Nebraska.

Let's attempt to model the effects of employment and wage growth, to see how many federally regulated workers would be directly affected by a $ 15 federal minimum wage in 2019.

It took minimum wage supporters 10 years to raise the federal minimum wage from $ 5.15 per hour to the current rate of $ 7.25 per hour.

Using the most favourable set of assumptions of employment growth at 0.75 % per year and wage growth of only 1.51 % per year over 11 years, I find that the federal minimum wage proposal would only directly boost the wages of 52,361 individuals.

Several states have set their minimum wage rates at a higher level than the federal rate, including California, which has a current rate of $ 10 per hour.

However the most recent available data — from 2008 — showed that only 416 of those federal workers earned the minimum wage, leading some to say the NDP is exaggerating the measure's potential impact.

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.

As a result, unsurprisingly, these states have the lowest percentage of workers making the federal minimum wage.

By contrast, the states with the highest proportion of workers making the federal minimum wage or less are Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and Idaho, where between seven and eight percent of workers make at or below $ 7.25.

In these cases, the cheerleaders argue they have been denied minimum wage and overtime pay in violation of federal and state wage laws.

In the particular mentioned example of federal vs. state (vs. local) minimum wages, the most restrictive (highest) minimum wage in a given jurisdiction would apply.

Skelos had a renewed set of talking points on the minimum wage increase today, noting that not only would low - income earners lose their jobs, but would no longer qualify for federal tax credits or social service programs.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (02/15/2013)(readMedia)-- Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.

Sen. Chuck Schumer yesterday said at an unrelated news conference that the state Senate had blocked the minimum wage increase measure, disagreeing with the premise of my question that Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn't exert much effort to get the measure through the Legislature (Schumer is the sponsor of a federal measure to raise the national minimum wage).

The federal government on Monday assured the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and entire workforce of the country that the new national minimum wage will commence, latest...

Colleen Deacon, Eric Kingson and Steve Williams said they support a bill in Congress banning gun sales to suspected terrorists, an increase in the federal minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, increased spending on roads and bridges, a ban on fracking for natural gas, and replacing the elevated portion of Interstate 81 in Syracuse with a boulevard.

However, New York can not wait while Washington weighs the pros and cons of a federal shift in the minimum wage.

Cuomo, along with George Gresham — the president of 1199 SEIU — took about half a dozen questions from participants, who asked how the governor reached the $ 15 figure, why was he able to raise the wage for fast food workers, and why the state is pushing to increase the minimum wage and not the federal government.

The backing of the wage floor on the federal level comes after New York's state budget in April approved a measure to increase the state's minimum wage in New York City and the suburban counties to $ 15 over the next several years (upstate hits $ 12.50 and is then subject to an economic formula with the goal of eventually hitting $ 15).

New York City fast food workers, union leaders and City Council members rallied in front of a federal Labor Department office this morning to demand President - elect Donald Trump drop his nominee to head the agency — minimum wage critic and Hardees / Carl's Jr. chain CEO Andrew Puzder.

State Democratic Committee Executive Director Basil Smikle on Monday cheered the adoption of support for a $ 15 federal minimum wage by the platform committee of the Democratic National Convention.