Sentences with phrase «hour wage rate»

Ultimately, the employee was awarded $ 15,000 for injury to dignity, feelings, and self - respect based on her $ 1.25 per hour wage rate.

Not exact matches

Conveniently, 1099 workers (referring to the tax reporting form for freelancers) can hit the ground running and complete projects quickly in exchange for an agreed - upon compensation rate, which is usually a higher wage per hour or job.

FLSA mandates that non-exempt employees be paid at the rate of 1.5 times the hourly wage for every hour over 40 worked in a week.

Chief Executive Doug McMillon recently said the company would improve opportunities for workers, including getting the roughly 6,000 people who make the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 an hour at its stores off that rate.

It took minimum wage supporters 10 years to raise the federal minimum wage from $ 5.15 per hour to the current rate of $ 7.25 per hour.

Several states have set their minimum wage rates at a higher level than the federal rate, including California, which has a current rate of $ 10 per hour.

is calling for a $ 15 - per - hour federal minimum wage, while Hillary Clinton is calling for a $ 12 - per - hour federal hourly pay rate, with high - priced states going even higher.

In fact, in real terms the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago: The $ 4.03 - an - hour rate recorded in January 1973 has the same purchasing power as $ 22.41 would today.

Since the average nominal wage rate has now risen to $ 21 an hour, the amount given back by the borrower is still equivalent to 1,000 hours of labour - time.

For salaried workers, we calculate an hourly wage rate by dividing weekly earnings by hours worked.

The Wage Cost Index (WCI) for total hours (excluding bonuses), an indicator of movements in average wage rates, increased by 2.8 per cent over the year to the March quarter 2000, which is close to the previous readings for this indicator (Graph Wage Cost Index (WCI) for total hours (excluding bonuses), an indicator of movements in average wage rates, increased by 2.8 per cent over the year to the March quarter 2000, which is close to the previous readings for this indicator (Graph wage rates, increased by 2.8 per cent over the year to the March quarter 2000, which is close to the previous readings for this indicator (Graph 41).

NOTES BB&T also raised minimum hourly pay rate from $ 12 to $ 15, effective Jan. 1, 2018; Fifth Third Bank also boosted minimum wage to $ 15 per hour for all employees; PNC Financial also will raise minimum pay rate to $ 15 an hour by the end of 2018.

We have seen his star arise... And inside the city walls, the street bazaars and markets, men haggling over the rate of a day's wage, some, unable to work, unhired even unto the eleventh hour.

While parents who are paid a higher hourly rate may indeed qualify for support by working a low number of hours per week, those who earn national minimum wage or national living wage will effectively have to work more hours to qualify for the same type of support - but those extra hours may not be available to them.

How much money will low - income workers lose by delaying the minimum wage hike to $ 9 an hour over three years — without indexing to the rate of inflation?

Assemblyman Al Stirpe, a Syracuse Democrat, said he's optimistic the Legislature will approve a statewide $ 15 an hour minimum wage as part of the state budget — likely with an extended phase - in period, but without a permanently lower rate for upstate.

Connecticut state lawmakers became the first in the country to pass legislation that would increase the state's minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour, by 2017 — the same rate President Barack Obama wants for the federal minimum wage.

The governor proposed having the minimum wage for all Upstate workers to hit $ 15 an hour at the same time as the fast food workers reached that rate.

As of Dec. 31, New York State's minimum wage will be $ 9 an hour, a 25 - cent increase from the current rate.

The plans for a mall were defeated by the Council because Mr. Bloomberg and the developer refused to include pay rates higher than the minimum wage of $ 7.25 an hour.

The platform de Blasio and Cuomo back would allow the state to raise its minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour, and would permit New York City to set its rate by 30 percent higher.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan Monday to increase the minimum wage for State University of New York workers to $ 15 an hour — up from the current rate of $ 9 an hour.

He says a minimum wage increase will bring New York City to a $ 15 an hour rate in three years, four years for small business with less than 10 employees.

Carpenters performing heavy construction work on buildings earn an hourly prevailing wage of $ 48.35, in addition to $ 46.12 an hour in supplemental benefits, according to the rates for fiscal year 2016, released this week by Stringer.

The increase in the apprentice National Minimum Wage will halve the gap with the rate for 16 to 17 year olds, which will increase by two per cent, from # 3.79 to # 3.87 per hour.

ALBANY — A tense standoff, a three - hour delay and backroom wrangling marked an internal Republican struggle before GOP senators decided to vote in a bloc to support a steep minimum wage hike in exchange for a budget that increased school spending and cut income tax rates for many.

The bizarre excuses have been made public as part of a # 1.7 million campaign to raise awareness around the increase in the minimum wage coming into force in April that will take the rate up to # 7.50 per hour.

If Marcie's # 225 earnings are derived from being on or near the minimum wage, then there is a double hit for her because she also can not salary sacrifice to save 12 per cent National Insurance, if such an arrangement would take her pay below the level of the applicable minimum wage rate (# 7.83 per hour in 2018/19 for those aged 25 and over).3 Anne Fairpo said: «One of the concerns about allowing the lowest earners to sacrifice salary has been the risk of their pay dropping below the point at which entitlement to contributory benefits is triggered (the Lower Earnings Limit - # 116 per week in 2018/19).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said news of the state's newly enacted minimum wage — the first in a series of steps toward the end goal of a $ 15 - per - hour rate — will be boosted by a task force of 200 that will be sent out with the mission of both educating businesses and enforcing the law.

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.

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 Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties, the wage rate will increase to $ 15 an hour by the end of 2021.

Ulrich issued a statement shortly before 6 p.m. declaring that he not only supports increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 to $ 8.50 an hour, but also supports a provision to periodically adjust the minimum wage to reflect the rate of inflation.

Small businesses in New York City, as defined by the legislation, must pay a minimum wage of $ 10.50 per hour, with the $ 15 - per - hour rate scheduled to begin at the end of 2019.

The current living wage rates are $ 15.08 per hour without benefits, or $ 12.77 with benefits.

He did, however, reiterate his opposition to the $ 15 - an - hour wage, saying it has «no basis in economics» and stressing that he has been approached by multiple groups and constituents urging him to vote «no» on another hourly rate hike — should one make it to the floor.

The current minimum wage is $ 9 an hour, though fast - food workers will see their rate rise to $ 15 an hour over the next several years.

Inside, dozens of fast food workers were among those who testified at the last hearing held by Cuomo's wage board, which is examining whether to raise the state's minimum wage beyond the current rate of increase to $ 9 an hour by the end of 2015.

$ 10.50, $ 11.50 minimum wage rates Already, New York leaders have raised the state's minimum wage to $ 8.75 an hour for this year, and $ 9 an hour next year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo will dispatch a task force of 200 state employees to help educate businesses about the state's newly enacted minimum wage, and enforce any chronic violations of the law — the first in a series of steps toward the end goal of a $ 15 - per - hour rate.

He also wants to raise the wage rate to $ 11.50 an hour for New York City workers.

The minimum wage in Massachusetts is currently $ 8 per hour, the rate was set in 2008 and does not adjust for inflation.

Under the new minimum wage increase, tipped workers still make a significantly lower rate of pay, at around $ 5 an hour, before tips.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday the minimum wage for 28,000 state university workers will be increased gradually to $ 15 an hour and he will ask the state Legislature to apply that rate to all New Yorkers.

Inside, dozens of fast food workers are among the over 170 people who testified at the last hearing held by Cuomo's wage board, which is examining whether to raise the state's minimum wage beyond the current rate of increase to $ 9.00 an hour by the end of 2015.

But DeFrancisco said the $ 15 an hour wage is not economically justified considering the low inflation rate.

If the economy is struggling, the state could halt the planned wage increases Upstate before the rate hits $ 15 an hour, Cuomo suggested.

But discussions with the Senate have focused on easing the impact on upstate, including possibly settling a minimum wage of $ 12.50 or $ 13 an hour and then tying future increases to the rate of inflation so it would eventually reach $ 15 an hour, sources said.

The state's current minimum wage is $ 7.25 an hour, the same as the federal hourly rate.

«At face value, abolishing tipping and offering higher wages instead, sounds like a reasonable and necessary action, especially when you consider the federal minimum wage for nontipped workers is $ 7.25 and the federal subminimum wage for tipped workers is at a measly $ 2.13 per hour rate,» said McKenzie.