Sentences with phrase «food workers in the state»

Cuomo also announced that the state's acting labor commissioner, Mario Musolino, had signed an order that would raise the minimum wage for many fast - food workers in the state to $ 15 an hour over a few years.

A special panel created by Governor Andrew Cuomo voted Wednesday to raise the minimum wage for fast - food workers in the state to $ 15 by 2021.

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Fudge's letter was made public by the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW), which represents many of the unionized grocery workers in the United Workers union (UFCW), which represents many of the unionized grocery workers in the United workers in the United States.

And the association has been joining hands with groups like Silicon Valley Leadership Group to show members of Congress how the economies of states like California are almost entirely dependent on foreign workers, from the people who grow and produce food there to the people who are creating high - tech jobs at startups in Silicon Valley, Regelbrugge says

Similar scheduling measures for fast food, retail or other workers have been introduced in several states and are pending in Connecticut, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Texas, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Now — in a time of red state teachers madly striking, of fast - food workers demanding $ 15 an hour, of #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter activists refusing to go away — it looks like our time could represent a cultural turn of its own.

Fast - food workers protest across the state on Democratic debate day in Milwaukee Wisconsin Gazette February 11, 2016

The food, beverage and consumer packaged goods industry in the United States generates sales of $ 2.1 trillion annually, employs 14 million workers and contributes $ 1 trillion in added value to the economy every year.

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And these kitchens are inspected by public health departments for safety & sanitation compliances and employees are required in most if not all states to have a food handlers / workers card / license.

In New York, Cuomo used the power of a state wage board at the Department of Labor to increase the wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 over the next several years.

«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.»

That is already in motion, which means 300,000 fast food workers are on a schedule to make $ 15 by 2018 in New York City, by 2021 everywhere else in New York State.

Mr. Figueroa was another player in the major effort to increase the minimum wage in the state, first for fast food workers and then for everyone.

Lawmakers created a different schedule for increasing the state's minimum wage for all workers in Upstate New York than Cuomo's wage board used last year when it ordered that the minimum wage for fast food workers be gradually increased until it reaches $ 15 an hour on July 1, 2021.

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.

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.

Fast - food workers will see their minimum wage rise to $ 10.50 in New York City and $ 9.75 elsewhere in the rest of the state.

The three members of a state board meeting in Albany to consider minimum wage increases for New York's fast - food workers say salaries should rise, though they haven't immediately determined how high and when.

On Wed., July 22, New York's Wage Board voted to approve a $ 15 minimum wage for fast - food workers in chain restaurants.The state's acting labor commissioner, Mario Musolino, has 45 days to act on the wage board's recommendation.

The proposal would follow the July recommendation by a panel formed at Cuomo's request that the wage floor for just fast - food workers be raised to $ 15 by 2018 in New York City and by 2021 in the rest of the state.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he'll try to get the state legislature to broaden an increase in the state's minimum wage beyond fast food workers, but the newly appointed deputy majority leader of the state Senate is throwing some cold water on that plan.

That did not stop advocates from protesting at the Dunkin' Donuts at the state Capitol, saying the governor's recently phased in wage increase for fast food workers is too slow.

The wage increase would apply to workers in fast - food restaurants with 30 or more locations, and affect an estimated 200,000 employees in New York State.

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.

John Maguire, a former Freeport fire chief who worked at the Nassau County Office of Emergency Management, testified that he followed protocol in trying to find a new food vendor in the days after superstorm Sandy after a state employee told him that county jail workers were washing utensils in a bathroom sink — a no - no health code violation that could have resulted in making emergency workers sick.

Established in 1937, RWDSU's membership counts on 32,600 workers across New York State in a wide range of industries including but not limited to retail, poultry processing and food chains.

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.

Cuomo has already begun a piecemeal attempt to increase the minimum wage through executive actions to phase in an increase for state workers and fast food workers to $ 15 an hour over the next several years.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an increase in the minimum wage on Sept. 10, the same day Acting State Labor Commissioner Mario Musolino signed an order designating a $ 15.00 per hour statewide minimum wage for fast - food workers — the level recommended by a State Department of Labor wage board over the summer, according to a press release from Cuomo's office.

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.

Governor Andrew Cuomo says he will try to get the state legislature to broaden an increase in the state's minimum wage beyond fast food workers, but the newly appointed Deputy Majority Leader of the state Senate is throwing some cold water on that plan.

«Lifting the wage floor for fast - food workers, state employees and now SUNY workers is the right thing to do,» Bowen said in a statement.

At a subsequent rally, he said the state is subsidizing big fast food restaurants like McDonald's to the tune of $ 700 million a year — in part by providing health care coverage and other public assistance to its workers — and called for New York to get out of the «hamburger business.»

Cuomo instead convened a wage board at the state Department of Labor to review potential changes to the minimum wage for workers in the fast - food industry, giving a nod to a growing campaign for better wages in that sector.

The proposal comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo in recent months has pushed for a broader minimum wage increase and through executive authority hiked the wage for workers in the fast - food industry as well as state and SUNY employees.

For fast - food employees and state workers, the bump will be greater: They'll be due at least $ 9.75 an hour, or $ 10.50 if they work in New York City.

Cuomo has formed a campaign coalition named in honor of his late father to push for a $ 15 minimum wage after taking executive action this past summer to gradually increase the wage for SUNY and state workers as well as fast - food employees.

Meanwhile, demonstrators targeted the Dunkin' Donuts on the first floor of the state Capitol even though Cuomo already convened a special wage board to phase in a $ 15 an hour rate for fast food workers.

That did not stop advocates from protesting at the Dunkin Donuts at the state Capitol, saying the governor's recent phased in wage increase for fast food workers is too slow.

At a rally in Manhattan, the Democratic governor shared the stage with national labor leaders after a state wage board recommended raising the minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 and hour, delivering a key victory in a national push by unions — led by Service Employees International Union — to improve the lot of (and unionize) employees at McDonald's, Burger King and other chains.

But Gjede suggested a $ 15 minimum wage for fast - food workers in New York and other neighboring states could ultimately benefit Connecticut's business climate, which was strongly criticized by some major employers who recently threatened to leave the state because of proposed business tax increases in one version of the state budget.

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.

Cuomo, who used his executive powers through a wage board to phase in a $ 15 an hour rate for fast food workers, says next he wants to try to get a similar increase through the state legislature next year.

In 2015, New York led the nation by becoming the first state to set a $ 15 per hour minimum wage for fast food workers.

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.

New York state in July adopted a plan to raise the minimum wage for many fast - food workers to $ 15 an hour over several years.

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.

Today, the Erie County Legislature opposed the recent recommendation of a $ 15 minimum wage for fast food workers in New York State by the New York Minimum Wage Board.

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