Sentences with phrase «food minimum wage law»

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(In May, Gov. Andrew Cuomo convened a Wage Board empowered by state law to consider raising the minimum for the fast food industry.)

I also asked Heastie if he's concerned about the governor's increased reliance of late on his executive powers to circumvent the Legislature on key policy issues like a minimum wage increase for the state's fast food workers and creation of a special prosecutor to handle cases in which unarmed civilians die at the hands of law enforcement officers.

A New York state law increasing minimum wage for fast - food workers may or may not apply to fast - food workers at Syracuse University.

The governor is also pressing the State Senate to agree to pass a law to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour for workers not covered by his executive action that apply to fast food workers and state workers.

«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.

The health care workers union 1199, which financed a specially designed bus and provided audiences for a series of rallies promoting the $ 15 minimum wage, called the new law historic, and said it «means fewer hardworking home care workers, nurse assistants and other caregivers will have to rely on food stamps to feed their families.»

In recent years, a wave of preemption laws crafted by ALEC with the support of retailers, fast food companies and other major employers, have been implemented in states across the country to block increases in the minimum wage and efforts to enact paid sick days.