Sentences with phrase «hourly wage raises»

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Small businesses across the United States may have grumbled when the president raised the hourly minimum wage on August 20, but at least one company is ecstatic.

Though he once was against raising the federal hourly minimum wage of $ 7.25, Trump now supports an increase to $ 10 per hour.

The CCPA proposal suggests that we can safely raise the minimum wage to 60 % of the average hourly wage, then advocates a minimum wage that does not reach this mark.

President Barack Obama encouraged an across - the - board raise that would lift the federal hourly minimum from $ 7.25 today to $ 10.10 by 2016 in his recent State of the Union address, and 13 states raised their minimum wage on January 1.

The new health care legislation has added an additional layer of complexity, so what will imposing pressure to raise the hourly minimum wage bring?

Continuing on the topic of jobs, raising the minimum wage beyond the $ 7.25 federal hourly rate is a key ballot initiative for this midterm cycle in several red states including Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and Nebraska.

But Disney could afford to raise hourly wages by $ 5 for the bottom - earning quartile of its full - time employees, giving even more people a living wage.

Walmart said it would raise the minimum hourly wage from $ 9 to $ 11, a move that would cost up to $ 400 million a year.

The wage pop [last Friday's 2.9 % growth in hourly wages] spooked the markets because investors, already skittish as valuations were a bit steep (though not as bad as people have been saying, given strong current and expected corporate earnings), envisioned this sequence: wage growth gooses price growth (i.e., inflation), which raises both market and Federal Reserve interest rates, which slows growth and shaves corporate profit margins.

Efforts to raise the minimum wage would follow, including a bill pending before Congress to raise the federal hourly minimum wage from $ 7.25 to $ 10.10.

A $ 20.91 hourly wage is needed to cover the costs of raising a family in Metro Vancouver, up from $ 20.61 per...

Earlier this year, Walmart — which last year reported $ 485.9 billion in revenue — said it would raise its hourly minimum wage to $ 10 for most workers, but activist groups say many employees are still struggling to make ends meet.

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.

Bertolini has raised the minimum hourly wage for Aetna employees to $ 16, offers wellness programs that include meditation and stress reduction and gave as a Christmas gift to his leadership team French economist Thomas Piketty's «Capital in the 21st Century,» which documents the concentration of wealth and income.

We're raising our starting wage for all hourly associates in the U.S., expanding benefits & offering a one - time bonus!

DiNapoli said his office also has questions about the timing of the governor's plan to raise the hourly minimum wage of state workers $ 15 an hour in order to set an example for his push for a statewide hike to that level.

Long's small business focus is interesting, considering the fact that Ulrich is one of just two GOP Senate candidates (the other being Bob Cohen, who is running for retiring Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer's seat, is also facing a primary challenge and, like Ulrich, is repped by Bill O'Reilly) to proclaim support for raising the state's hourly minimum wage.

If minimum wage stays in the budget, Cuomo has the option of forcing it down the throats of the reluctant Republicans by forcing them to choose between a standing firm in their opposition to raising the hourly wage and shutting down the government.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivered a full - throated cry during his brief public appearance at the tail end of caucus weekend to restore New York to its rightful place as the «progressive capital of the nation,» which — in his eyes — requires action this year on raising the hourly minimum wage.

The Labour leader has pledged to raise the hourly minimum wage from # 6.30 to # 8.00 by 2020.

The increased hourly wage for fast - food workers represents a raise of more than 70 percent over the state's current minimum wage of $ 8.75 per hour.

As he continues to roll out top priorities of his State of the State / budget address, Gov. Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed raising New York's minimum wage to $ 10.50 an hour and boosting the baseline for hourly pay in New York City to $ 11.50.

It will be the first state to give a raise to just one segment of the hourly wage workforce.

CITY HALL — Bypassing the City Council, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order on Tuesday expanding the living wage law to cover thousands of more workers and raising the hourly wage from $ 11.90 to $ 13.13 for those without benefits.

Last year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a state law that will gradually raise the state's minimum hourly wage of $ 9.75 to $ 15 by 2020.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo — joined by Vice President Biden — is expected to push today for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage for all workers statewide after the acting state labor commissioner gives final approval to a recommendation raising hourly pay for fast food workers to that amount.

Target fired the first salvo of this year's holiday hiring wars, saying that it would raise its minimum hourly wage to $ 11 next month and then to $ 15 an hour by the end of 2020.

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 stakes are big: Determining what bills — such as raising the minimum wage to $ 10.10 hourly and strengthening abortion rights — actually reach the Senate floor in the next two years.

The Comptroller emphasized three important needs for advancing New York City's economy: raising the hourly minimum wage to $ 15, investing in small businesses, particularly those owned by women or minorities, and improving corporate diversity.

For Henry Meer, the chef and owner of City Hall Restaurant, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to raise the state's minimum hourly wage to $ 15 is a simple, but worrying math problem.

On the controversial issue of raising the minimum hourly wage in New York State to $ 15, Astorino said it «will definitely put businesses out of business,» and added, «Fifteen dollars an hour is a completely arbitrary number with real negative impacts.»

As an hourly wage - slave I've added the net of my last few pay raises as well as any overtime or bonus money I receive to my mortgage payment.

One breeder that I knew mentioned to me one time that she worked out the amount of work that went into raising a litter of puppies, combined that with all the overhead costs and figured out an hourly wage if she only worked a 40 hour week.