Sentences with phrase «living wage legislation»

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

In preparation for a long - awaited Nov. 22 City Council hearing on Living Wage legislation, which has its roots in the battle over the fate of the Kingsbridge Armory, supporters, including several Council members, are stepping up their p.r. campaign.

The comptroller was given the power to investigate complaints with the passage of the 2012 Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act, the most recent living wage legislation.

CITY HALL — The City Council passed a final budget late Thursday night that averts the worst of threatened service cuts, and overrules a trio of mayoral vetoes, including controversial living wage legislation.

«We need real living wage legislation, not the watered - down version we got last year that only covers a few hundred workers,» de Blasio said in a July statement criticizing a Quinn ad that prominently featured the passage of the bill.

Today, we're devoting the roundup to the living wage legislation, which was debated in a City Council Committee hearing yesterday.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has come out in support of the Living Wage legislation, sending a letter yesterday to Christine Quinn, the Council speaker.

Asked what he thinks the study means for the living wage legislation currently under consideration at the City Council, Paul Sonn, legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project, still seemed optimistic.

It was Appelbaum with whom Quinn negotiated the living wage legislation, and he is clearly primed to make the progressive case on her behalf.

Comparing this situation to the armory's, or to the living wage legislation in general, is comparing apples to oranges.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is cutting the Related Companies a break from the living wage legislation.