Sentences with phrase «hire minimum wage workers»

Twenty - six percent of employers said they plan to hire minimum wage workers this year.

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NCMM says a minimum wage increase will curtail growth as companies put off hiring workers to stay under federal thresholds that require the federal minimum wage.

More than half of the 243 employers in the province permitted to hire temporary foreign workers at minimum wage over a 10 - month period ended in June were in the food - service business, the Alberta Federation of Labour found recently through a freedom - of - information request.

As a result, Target, which plans to hire 100,000 seasonal workers this year, is raising its minimum wage to $ 11 an hour beginning next month.

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The tax cut was part of the minimum wage deal, and it would give a tax credit to any business that hires workers between the ages of 16 and 19.

Companies hired for public works projects in the state are required to pay their workers what's known as a prevailing wage, which is a minimum rate set by the state based on factors like region.

The bill, sponsored by Democratic Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (a Rochester - area lawmaker) and Republican Sen. George Amedore, is aimed at codifying state Department of Labor guidelines that exempt delivery people who are hired as independent carriers from aspects of the unemployment, the minimum wage and workers» compensation coverage laws, according to the sponsor's memo.

He says a hike in the minimum age puts pressure on employers to pay even higher wage workers more money, and could adversely affect teenagers, who might not get hired if the minimum wage is increased.

At the same time, the lawmakers say the tax credit measure has incentivized businesses to not hire older workers and turn to students in order to pay them the minimum wage.

Tax cuts paired with minimum wage increases aren't novel, however: The last minimum wage increase included a credit to employers who hire younger workers, a move seen by Democratic lawmakers as a way to hurt older low - wage workers.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

The first such report in the United States grew out of a 1999 proposal to boost the minimum wage paid workers employed by contractors hired by the city of San Francisco.

There are also more economic reasons — minimum wage has increased over the past few decades so companies aren't hiring as frequently for positions normally filled by high schoolers, and a tough economy saw more grown workers taking jobs they usually wouldn't — but a lot of it can be attributed to students spending their time more wisely.

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