Sentences with phrase «living wage employee»

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Ice Cream giant Ben and Jerry's had been living on the public relations of setting their wage ratio for the highest - paid employee to the lowest to 5:1 — which they did until 1990.

Some people said the screed, directed at CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, drew attention to prevalent wage issues in the area; others accused the employee of acting entitled and failing to find better or more work or a place to live that costs less than her current $ 1,245 rent.

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.

In the U.S., this kind of job migration occurs not because employees hate their jobs or don't make a living wage — but simply because it's an option.

Not paying a living wage lowers worker productivity and creates stress on employees who should be viewed «as human beings, not just workers,» and the practice, she says, «doesn't serve the company or its brand.»

Make your employees» lives easier by adding on direct deposit, or automatically remove payments for child support, or wage garnishments.

Today marks four years since since the labor movement known as the Fight for $ 15 launched, and American fast - food employees and other hourly workers are continuing to push for a living wage.

The 2017 Health and Workplace Benefits Survey recently completed by the Employee Benefit Research Institute and Greenwald & Associates finds that 44 percent of employees would give up a wage increase for increased work - life balance benefits like paid time off or telecommuting.

Just last year, Vancity Credit Union — the biggest such union in the country — pledged to provide a living wage for its employees.

Currently, two B.C. communities — New Westminster and Esquimalt — pay their employees and contractors a living wage.

In social policy, the Party is committed to fighting poverty by gradually raising the minimum wage to $ 10 per hour, and indexing it to the cost of living thereafter; implementing rent guidelines and close loopholes around condo conversions to protect rental tenants; ensuring that provincial contracts and grants enable organizations to provide a living wage to employees.

«The employees of our company should have a living wage, they should have quality of life and we shouldn't make their work destroy them,» he said at a 2013 conference in New York.

The proposal called for Loblaw to review the feasibility, cost and benefits of implementing a living wage policy for its employees, suppliers and contractors.

He paid his employees a living wage because it was the shrewd thing to do, knowing that workers who have money spend money, and that helped ensure everyone's well being, including Henry Ford's.

The unusual short - case justification for the first two options assumes that shifting the balance of power in favor of labor can force a redistribution of income from capitalist bad guys to worker good guys and thereby achieve a living wage for the firm's employees.

I am inspired by those men and women in positions of leadership that make the choices for people before profits — for instance, the businesses that provide adequate health care, maternity leave, sick leave and a living wage to their employees.

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...

Employers can honor the commandment to honor the Sabbath in the workplace as well as offer their adult employees a living wage.

«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.»

The club said it pays permanent employees the Voluntary Living Wage, which is higher than the statutory national figure.

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We are very proud to say that each of these employees begins their employment at the District's living wage, currently, $ 12.75.

a disaggregation of jobs within each industry at the job site and whether employees are earning a living wage or receiving health benefits;

According to the report by Howard Reed of Landman Economics and commissioned by Unison: «It is unlikely that the extension of the living wage to all UK employees would result in any substantial aggregate employment losses.»

Labour's bid to force contractors to pay their employees the living wage may be illegal, Downing Street has warned.

Related won a competitive bid for the project but pulled their after the City Council demanded that any tenants at the new site pay their employees a living wage.

That's 19 Labour councils across the country moving to pay their employees and their directly contracted staff at least the living wage.

Members highlighted good Labour councils such as Manchester and Oxford, which pays a living wage of at least # 8 to all employees, against a few mavericks.

The settlement included a wage increase on par with the rising cost of living, but in exchange, there was reform to the employees» active health insurance, retiree health insurance, paid time - off benefit package and employee work hours.

In exchange for a cost - of - living wage increase, I would expect the contract to include concessions from the unions, for example, less paid vacation days, and increased employee contribution for current and retiree health care costs.

Bronx resident Jorel Ware, 35, a McDonald's employee, told the Observer after the rally that the labor secretary should be someone who wants to support the 64 million people that «don't make a living wage in this country.»

Downing Street has questioned moves by Labour to force contractors to pay their employees the living wage.

A Labour government will mean more workers paid a living wage, (as many enlightened employers and, I'm proud to say, increasing numbers of Labour councils, are already doing)- offering temporary tax breaks to employers that commit to paying it, and requiring transparency of large companies, so employees, consumers and campaigners can hold them to account.

Jeremy Corbyn has also advocated installing a «real» living wage and announced that companies with more than 21 employees to publish earnings data in a bid to close the gender pay gap.

''... wants a High Pay Commission, a living wage and employee representatives to sit on company pay boards.

London Mayor Boris Johnson has urged larger firms in the capital to pay the London Living Wage of # 8.55 to their employees, saying «it doesn't hurt these companies to do a bit more for their employees».

Modern social liberal policies include: a living wage, a land value tax, employee ownership, ending the «bedroom tax», reversing the marketisation of the NHS and having a «Green People's Budget» that would focus on redistribution and green growth.

At 10 a.m., the NYC he Department of Consumer Affairs will hold a public hearing on a change to the «Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act,» which would mandate «certain companies that receive at least one million dollars of financial assistance from the City of New York to pay their employees no less than a living wage,» 42 Broadway, 5th Floor, Manhattan.

Address the state's scandalous disregard of low - wage human services employees of not - for - profit agencies under state contract who received a cost - of - living increase this year after enduring years without one.

«Taking decent paying, middle class jobs with benefits away from experienced, dedicated, and caring state employees and replacing them with private, not - for - profit companies who fail to pay their direct care workers a decent wage hurts local economies and the quality of life for all New Yorkers, not just those receiving care,» CSEA's testimony stated.

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.

Now a bill at the council, introduced by council members Annabel Palma and Oliver Koppell at the request of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., would require any developer that receives public subsidies to pay a living wage to every employee on the premises.

One would require a prevailing wage for building service employees, while the other would require a living wage for every worker on a city - assisted development, including the development's tenants.

But all the speakers clearly preferred it to stay empty rather than give over a public building with public subsidies to a mall developer who won't guarantee a living wage for employees of its retail tenants.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced new compromise legislation on Friday that would require only companies receiving direct subsidies from the city to pay employees the so - called living wage, which is a few dollars more than the minimum wage.

First, the state barely pays a living wage to it's downstate employees.

Cuomo not only avoided the multimillion - dollar waves of TV ads by public employee unions and hospitals that sunk the last three governors, but he had special interests running ads praising him, after he promised concessions including a «living wage» guarantee for health care union workers and a cap on medical malpractice awards.

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