Sentences with phrase «get a living wage»

, just like we were going to get a living wage, only he dropped it.

The school classifies me as part time because they want to avoid paying me benefits, but they double the pay rate on a so - called 20 hours a week to make sure I still get a living wage.

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«We're not still seeing real wage growth, but we are seeing some of the cost of living move up when you get into what does it cost to own a home and operate your life in general,» he said.

«People have been squeezed before 2008 and they're gradually being squeezed more, and what it translates into is more people who are working or living in poverty having to go to food banks, trying to get two or three jobs, or going without basic necessities like food or heating,» said Michael McCarthy Flynn, spokesperson for the Living Wage for Families Camliving in poverty having to go to food banks, trying to get two or three jobs, or going without basic necessities like food or heating,» said Michael McCarthy Flynn, spokesperson for the Living Wage for Families CamLiving Wage for Families Campaign.

I think most (I know not all) want to get off of public assistance and make their own money, but if they can't get a job, or can only get a minimum wage position, they can't make any improvements to their living conditions.

If they truly want to be a witness, they should be taking care of their employees by [1] paying them a living wage and [2] supporting them with health care, not trying to run their lives by denying it because they personally don't believe in birth control *** AHEM HOBBY LOBBY, all you had to do was voice your objection and step aside, and the provider would absorb the cost, but NOOOOOOOOOO, you thought you knew better & said I FORBID YOU TO HAVE IT so your employees lost out on ALL health care, nice work in the name of the Great Physician *** or firing them because they get pregnant BECAUSE you didn't let them have birth control...

«All the while ensuring that these employees have to apply for SNAP, (Wal - Mart even gives them the forms) and then kvetching about the «freebies» they're getting because they aren't paid a living wage to actually feed their families.»

If the best job they can get is low - wage, then a combination of wage subsidies and a child tax credit will enable them to earn a living, provided they work.

He gets a minimum wage job and lives alone in a basement apartment.

We would urge all fans and their communities to get behind our campaign for all Premier League Clubs to pay a real living wage.»

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Here is footballer earning at the very least 10,000 Pounds a week, and he has lived in a house for six months but hasn't picked up the phone to get someone to repair his dishwasher, or even get a brand new one delivered and fitted, which would cost at the most 5 % of his weekly wage...

I guess «real» fight fans love to spend a large chunk of their monthly wage watching one of the classiest participants in their sport get fucked over on live tv..

Unless the State gets to grips with the fact that middle - ranking workers can't find a place to live in this country, there will be higher and higher wage demands.

usmanov supporter or not has repeatedly said that if and when he gets his 30 % it will allow him to look at the books and as discussed to an extent on Radio 5 live last night and in the The Swiss Ramble report, even if the figures are not quite correct there is no doubt that our wage bill on players alone is far too high as so many have little or no transfer value, yet are on pretty big wages.

«There's no doubt about it: if we want living wage jobs, stronger hospitals and schools, more affordable rents, lower property taxes, a cleaner environment, and a state government that actually gets things done, politicians like Pedro Espada have got to go.»

«The keys to keeping our economy growing are to keep investing in infrastructure, so we have a better climate for job growth, and to make sure workers all get safe working conditions and a wage they can live on.

«Actually what local councils are showing is that there are definitely ways of promoting the living wage and getting contractors to pay the living wage, which are absolutely within EU law.

«We need real living wage legislation, not the watered - down version we got.

The new first source hiring policy will get to the root of the problem, and actively connect residents living in poverty with jobs that pay a living wage.

Secondly, we should seek to learn from the local government experience with procurement to see whether central government can use its power to insist that large firms that get major government contracts commit to being living wage employers.

Through its campaigning and negotiating — ordinary people brought face to face with politicians and businessmen with «testimonies» about how they live their lives — the organisation was successful in getting Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, to back a living wage in the capital, and to persuade the current mayor, Boris Johnson, to maintain it.

What we want to make sure is that we raise the minimum wage and we've got a radical plan to do it, that doesn't cost jobs, so in addition to raising the minimum wage we've got a plan to provide tax breaks for employers for the first time, to raise the living wage.

Anyone who thinks they are not getting the National Living Wage or National Minimum Wage should complain to their employer in the first instance.

If we vote Leave and take back control, we will be able to ensure that workers who are currently in the UK will get the full benefit of the rise in the living wage.»

«If you want a job that pays a decent wage, gives you the chance to get on in life, live independently and enjoy your work, then join a trade union.

The point of the conversation was to show how difficult it was for a minimum wage worker to get on in life.

This was Michael's link to his LabourList piece, arguing that «Now of course, we all know the background behind the idea: the shocking levels of inequality, the people struggling to get by, working huge numbers of hours, living in a heavily taxed world, and trying to do it all on a terribly low wage.

The change comes amid a national push to raise the minimum wage, as well as the mayor's efforts to get Albany lawmakers to match the city's minimum wage to the living wage.

«We need to get it closer to a living wage.»

She and Wilkinson, who also lives in Syracuse, are among an estimated 18,500 low - wage workers in Onondaga County expected to get raises on Dec. 31 because of the state's higher minimum wage, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute.

It looks like the courts will get to decide whether the controversial «living wage» bill about to be enacted by the City Council is legal.

Make it an even $ 10 and maybe we'll be getting close to a «living wage.»

The Low - Wage Workers Health Project has spent the last two years getting a sense of what life is like for someone living at the poverty level in the Syracuse area.

The New York Times reported that Quinn has added an exemption to the living wage bill, which would require commercial projects that get city funding to pay employees a «living wage» of at least $ 10 per hour with benefits, that doesn't require most of the Hudson Yards development to comply.

Related also seems to have gotten a break on the «living wage» bill being drafted by the city council.

The presser tomorrow, according to an advisory we just got, will «exposes Charles River Associates (CRA), EDC's choice to conduct the study, as a business - backed lobbying group using economists who oppose living wage and even minimum wage policies for EDC's study.»

The most popular are, predictably, the introduction of the National Living Wage and the increase in the personal tax allowance which both get overwhelming support.

«When the government gets involved in subsidizing projects, we should at least expect people who work in those projects earn a living wage,» he said.

CITY HALL — Nearly 100 clergy members marched silently to the City Council chambers Wednesday to demand that officials pass a bill that would force developers who get city cash to pay workers a so - called «living wage.»

Today, one health care union is running a pro-Cuomo ad after getting a «living wage» provision for raises for its members as part of Cuomo's Medicaid overhaul.

Simplifying Tax Credits, raising the Min Wage or even introducing a Living Wage getting tough on Tax Avoidance, bringing together NI and Income Tax which is just an excuse forb increasing NI as Frank Field has suggested.

Kramer recommended that more emphasis and pressure should be placed on fathers and their ability to pay child support and spousal maintenance; raising the minimum wage to a living wage; and providing similar benefits and rewards for part - time work as the ones full - time workers get.

They are going to be paid a living wage, get equal amount of time to work, work in safe conditions, be counseled, trained, prayed for, supported, and empowered.

i absolutely love blogging been doing it for a few year now but as a hobby not as living wage, its fun and gets you busy and talkig to so many interesting people

Dee has enough problems just getting on with life - trying to raise her children, with her children's deadbeat dad and his abusive girlfriend in the same building, and yet even after her conviction is overturned, her subsequent case (spearheaded by the A.C.L.U.) puts her in the D.A.'s crosshairs - who uses his substantial infuence to not only prevent her from returning to her job of 7 years, but even makes sure that she is terminated from the minimum wage job she finally manages to procure.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

Districts and charter schools should get the same base cost for each regular education student, and the comparable wage index should be used to account for cost of living differences.

The arguments against a living wage for teachers — they get the summers off, they have a six - hour day, and so on — are tired, damaging, and based on false information.

We asked her a bunch of questions about what she found in regard to author income, books on sale, and whether indie or trad publishing is more likely to get a person to a living wage (which she defined as the U.S. average of $ 32,000 a year).