Sentences with phrase «from wage controls»

Workers have been getting their health insurance through their employers for decades, since the U.S. government exempted employer - paid health benefits from wage controls and income tax during World War II.

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From a nation of individual property holders — farmers, artisans, and merchants — we have become a nation of bureaucratic wage earners, dependent on vast institutional structures that we do not control.

This idiotic system is a holdover from WWII, when businesses started offering health care benefits to get around wartime wage controls.

Salary caps are there to stop the wage bill from spiralling out of control but does not necessarily mean the club does not have money to cater for a couple of special players.

Controls were more likely to have ever breast fed (79 %, 95 % CI 71 — 86 %) than infants in England and Wales in the Infant Feeding Surveys from 1995 (68 %) and 2000 (71 %), or be breast feeding at 6 months (27 %, 95 % CI 20 — 35 %) than in the surveys from 1995 (22 %) and 2000 (22 %).2 Among the controls, the proportion ever breast fed increased with social class of the main wage earner in the household from 57 % in social class V to 88 % in social Controls were more likely to have ever breast fed (79 %, 95 % CI 71 — 86 %) than infants in England and Wales in the Infant Feeding Surveys from 1995 (68 %) and 2000 (71 %), or be breast feeding at 6 months (27 %, 95 % CI 20 — 35 %) than in the surveys from 1995 (22 %) and 2000 (22 %).2 Among the controls, the proportion ever breast fed increased with social class of the main wage earner in the household from 57 % in social class V to 88 % in social controls, the proportion ever breast fed increased with social class of the main wage earner in the household from 57 % in social class V to 88 % in social class I.

The Democratic - controlled Assembly already approved a measure that would increase the state's minimum wage from $ 7.25 to $ 8.50 and then tie future increases to inflation.

Republicans, in turn, have come under criticism from conservatives for what they have seen as acquiescence on key issues like gun control and minimum wage.

In many cases, the groups — ranging from supporters of charter schools or proponents of public school spending — are waging battle in order to flip control of the chamber and are being spurred by issues that primarily impact New York City.

Heastie acknowledged looking at ways to help industries that would see increased expenses from a wage hike, but that have no control over their own revenues.

Republicans had long opposed the minimum wage increase pushed by Cuomo, the Assembly's Democratic majority, and a group of Democratic senators who caucus separately from the party and share control of the Senate with Republicans.

Recent months have been marked by friendly fire from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has challenged Mr. de Blasio at every turn — on mayoral control, on minimum wage proposals, on Ebola, on snowstorms.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a bevy of policy ideas ranging from an increase to the state's minimum wage, equal pay for women and the toughest gun control laws in the nation in his third State of the State address.

From guaranteed paid sick leave to tougher gun control laws, from a higher minimum wage to a comparably smooth rollout of the Affordable Care Act, few governors have embraced President Barack Obama's liberal policies with the zeal of Gov. Dannel P. MalFrom guaranteed paid sick leave to tougher gun control laws, from a higher minimum wage to a comparably smooth rollout of the Affordable Care Act, few governors have embraced President Barack Obama's liberal policies with the zeal of Gov. Dannel P. Malfrom a higher minimum wage to a comparably smooth rollout of the Affordable Care Act, few governors have embraced President Barack Obama's liberal policies with the zeal of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

The bill to raise the state's minimum wage from $ 7.25 cents an hour to $ 8.50 cents has been approved in the Democratic led State Assembly, but faces opposition form Republicans who control the Senate.

Under narrow Republican control, the chamber has forced Democrats to compromise on key issues like the minimum wage and taxes, while also stymying efforts to make it easier to vote and bar a woman from having a seat at the budget negotiating table.

In a speech to more than 800 at the county Democratic committee's fall dinner at the Chateau Briand, Cuomo addressed a range of topics, from gun control to increasing the state's minimum wage to presidential politics.

From the color of lights on an iconic building to a $ 15 minimum wage to a family - leave policy he signed into law without public debate, Cuomo's control of New York is unlike anything seen in recent times.

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

His 20 - minute speech focused on what he percieves as high points of his nearly eight years in office, from enacting tougher gun control legislation to raising the minimum wage to new protections for transgender people.

He said the surplus results from cost - cutting, expense deferrals, one - shot revenue, a recovering economy and a continuing wage freeze imposed by the county's financial control board, the Nassau Interim Finance Authority.

New York City should also fight to wrest control over the minimum wage from the state, seek permission to enforce state wage labor laws and enact paid family leave through an expansion of the state's temporary disability insurance program.

EAST HARLEM — City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito laid out an ambitious agenda focused on equality in her first State of the City address in East Harlem Wednesday, calling for $ 25 million to repair NYCHA buildings, local control over the minimum wage and a city - wide bail system to keep poor people accused of minor crimes from languishing in jail for weeks.

We learn from Hidetora in an early scene that he spent his life waging war, until finally he controlled all that he saw.

We must wage an unequivocal fight for a democratic and responsive educational system, overturning mayoral control and resisting corporate «education reform,» which have disenfranchised communities from the governance of their schools.

They do it to make a subsistence wage from their work, retain copyrights, circumvent censorship laws, get books into print within months instead of waiting years, keep their books in print forever instead of a few months, make revisions rapidly, fight political oppression, maintain creative control, get paid in a more timely manner, be able to distribute their works globally, publish highly specialized works that may not prove profitable, and take a chance on making something daringly different.

Treasury took a different approach from the control debt collection agency, it only called the borrower once per week and it did not impose wage garnishments until 11 months into the pilot.

You've seen the Resistance wage open guerrilla warfare in the war - ravaged outskirts of the Red Zone, while the KPA and American collaborators hide and control the city from the fortified Green Zone.

A set of toggle switches labeled «guns» and «bombs» tempt the spectator to convert the gallery into an apocalyptic control room from which to wage an invisible war.

The title of the figures, Les guérillères, is borrowed from a 1969 novel by Monique Wittig that tells the speculative story of a war waged by women to take control of society.

The myth of the movement of racists from the Democrat Party to the Republican was started when a progressive campaigner for the progressive Richard Nixon (wage and price controls, creation of the EPA) claimed he used a «Southern Strategy» to get Nixon elected.

With potential cost implications from areas such as the government's new Apprenticeship Levy, pension Auto Enrolment, the National Living Wage and business rate assessments, firms will need to maintain control of expenditure if profitability is to be increased.

But on the other hand, a shifty employer might refrain from expanding into another jurisdiction if it knows that it will be subject to stricter controls over wage payments to workers in the other jurisdiction.

Betrayed by staggering increases as a five - year mortgage at eight per cent became a three - month term of 21 per cent; facing a recession, wage and price controls and the nightmare of Trudeau's National Energy Policy, we received anonymous calls from once proud homeowners with directions to pick up the keys.

The homeless, the poor, the working poor — challenges ranging from mental illness and the response (or lack thereof) of our health care system, economic circumstance (the lack of control of the family into which we are born), and economic stagnation (mired in a minimum wage job.