Sentences with phrase «minimum wage based»

The Bill proposes changes that would (among other things) remove existing limits on unpaid wage claims, make temporary help agencies and their clients jointly liable for unpaid wages, and impose automatic adjustments to minimum wage based on the Consumer Price Index.

De Blasio's calls for the State to allow the City to set its minimum wage based on inflation and a $ 15 hourly rate by the end of 2019.

The factional NLC leader stated, was demanding N90, 000 national minimum wage based on the current exchange rate, noting that should the exchange rate go above N500 per dollar, NLC would demand for more than N90, 000.

Arlen Austin (b. 1981, Winooski VT), has worked on an uncompensated or below minimum wage basis for: Columbia University School of the Arts, Scaramouche Gallery, Chinese Staff and Workers» Association, Brooklyn is Burning, Public Art Fund Development Grant, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona, Sweatshop Free Upper West Side, Volta NYC, Creative Time / Queens Museum, 6 - 9 Months Project Space, Fischer - Landau Center for Contemporary Art, Barefoot in the Head at Bruce High Quality Foundation, White Box and Frederich Petzel Galleries.

Jason Boughton (b. 1968, Spokane WA), has labored on an uncompensated or below minimum wage basis for: The Public Art Fund, VideoDUMBO, Spin Cycle Post, 911 Media Arts Center (Seattle), Toronto International Film Festival, Daniele Ugolini Contemporary, Franco Soffiantino Gallery (Turin), Volta NYC, Creative Time / Queens Museum, Columbia University School of the Arts, Ludlow 38, 6 - 9 Month Space, Moscow International Film and Video Festival, Martha Rosler, Vladivostok International Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Invagination I & II, Millennium Filmmaker Workshop, Lower Manhattan Community Council, Sidney International Film Festival, National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Fisher - Landau Center for Contemporary Art, Anthology Film Archives, The Filmmakers Cooperative, Scaramouche Gallery.

Not exact matches

One is their baseline production cost data, which we've based on the existing minimum wage in Bangladesh of US$ 42 / month ($ 3,000 taka at the January 1, 2011 exchange rate).

We then use that to build out two additional scenarios: one assuming a doubling of the current minimum wage plus factoring in the cost of fire and building safety improvements based on data from the Worker Rights Consortium; and another using a «living wage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demawage plus factoring in the cost of fire and building safety improvements based on data from the Worker Rights Consortium; and another using a «living wage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demawage» figure from the East Asia labour organization Asia Floor Wage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demaWage, which is considered at the high end of labour reform demands.

«I don't even make minimum wage most days driving in this market,» one full - time Florida - based Uber driver told Business Insider.

However, altering the minimum wage every year based on average wages or realized inflation rates is difficult in practice, as there is a lag in collecting that data.

Non-partisan groups such as the Brookings Institution argue that raising the minimum wage is not a punitive exercise, but a necessary one that broadens the base of consumers who can participate in the economy.

It would effectively raise the minimum exempt H - 1B wage to $ 132,000, and its «market - based allocation» system would favor H - 1B visas for candidates who are offered the highest wages, an indicator of their relative talent and value to the U.S. economy.

However, worker advocates groups are fighting the proposed rule by arguing that it could allow businesses to keep employees» tips as long as the staffers earn the base minimum wage.

MOD Pizza has a base hourly salary of $ 10.50 per hour, well above the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25.

Minimum wage increases across the United States will prompt Wal - Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) to adjust base salaries at 1,434 stores, impacting about a third of its U.S. locations, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.

«Based on [current population survey] data from 1980 - 2015, we find that increasing the minimum wage decreases significantly the share of automatable employment held by low - skilled workers,» the study says.

But the same can be said for other policies designed to improve economic outcomes for the bulk of citizens — increasing the minimum wage, increased spending on infrastructure, establishing a guaranteed minimum base income, regulatory reforms, increased spending on R&D, cuts in corporate taxes, whatever your favorites may be.

1) Anyone who understands how supply and demand inter-relate should understand that minimum wage laws are not only counter-productive on an economy - wide basis but also cause the most problems for the group of workers they have supposedly been put in place to protect.

The New Democrat vision for a strong, dynamic economy includes a fair and competitive tax environment, support for small business, fiscal responsibility, a fair minimum wage with predictable increases, and investment in green jobs to diversify our economic base.

(After I abandoned freelancing, I had a small home - based business that probably earned me less than minimum wage but at least I was being creative, and that mattered much more than money at the time.)

In receiving the Working Families Party endorsement, Cuomo pledged to back a faster phase - in of the state's minimum wage and allow local governments to increase the wage on their own through a state - based formula.

Meanwhile, de Blasio insisted Gov. Andrew Cuomo remains on board with a plan to allow local governments to increase the state's minimum wage on its own, based on a state formula even after the governor maneuvered to alter an initial proposal for pre-Kindergarten in New York City that took the idea statewide.

The compromise on the minimum wage is most acute upstate, where the floor will be increase to $ 12.50 and then have a «safety valve» to determine when it will hit $ 15, based on a Division of Budget study of the economy.

The labor group that represents Long Island - based laundry workers have written to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan blasting him over the GOP - backed efforts to negotiate modifications to a proposed $ 15 minimum wage.

Meanwhile, Republicans have increasingly chaffed at budgets that proposed tax hikes or minimum wage increases, issues that are anathema to their base already restive over the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package that Cuomo counts as a signature accomplishment.

Will the base of the GOP remain uneasy with Cuomo - backed measures that include the minimum wage?

Cuomo on Tuesday in Niagara Falls floated the possibility of a farm - based carve out in a minimum wage agreement.

Although Labour's manifesto only hinted at reforming British capitalism — with timid measures on property taxation and house - building, a rise in the minimum wage and attempts to tax super-wealthy London - based oligarchs — it did address some of the fundamental imbalances of the British economy.

Working on a bipartisan basis, we passed a budget giving minimum wage workers three raises over the next two - and - a-half years.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has never signaled a willingness to let municipalities set their own rates, although the state's recent minimum wage legislation did set the rates based on regions.

There is a broad - based movement to increase the minimum wage as one component to diminish the income equality.

Gyory, a former advisor to several Democratic governors and now at Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, says Cuomo is in better position, considering he has spent this term successfully pushing issues friendly to the liberal base of the Democratic Party, like paid family leave and a $ 15 minimum wage.

A new poll finds Governor Cuomo's campaign for a phased in $ 15 an hour minimum wage is resonating among his base group of supporters.

His remarks, given at the Radisson Hotel outside of Albany, ratcheted up the rhetoric against Cuomo, who has emphasized issues in recent months friendly to the liberal base of the Democratic Party, including a minimum wage increase to $ 15.

The company, founded in Binghamton and based in Pennsylvania, announced it would end selling assault - style weapons and high capacity magazines as well as increase the minimum wage to purchase a firearm to 21.

It's a measure that has been opposed by doctors» groups, but comes after Cuomo publicly pledged to support a host of more high - profile measures including a minimum wage hike to $ 10.10 and allowing local governments to raise the wage on their own through a state - based formula.

The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations has hinted that negotiations on a minimum wage and base pay are scheduled to begin soon and end by the close of February.Nii Armah Ashietey said it is likely there will be a new wage though he said that will be contingent upon the outcome of the negotiations.Mr Ashietey was speaking with TV3...

The Retail council also proposes a provision for automatic minimum wage increase in the future, based on the rate of inflation.

He says Cuomo's proposal to push the state's minimum wage up to $ 15 an hours simply is not based on the reality of small business economics.

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.

Though he's had an at - times difficult relationship with the left of the Democratic base, Cuomo on the convention floor sought to play up areas of commonality on policy, touting the push for the $ 15 minimum wage and 12 weeks of paid family leave — both measures that were approved in New York earlier this year (with, by the way, the Republicans in control of the state Senate).

Tipped workers working in the restaurant, hotel and other service - based industries will receive a $ 2.50 minimum wage increase at the end of the year, the Department of Labor on Tuesday announced.

«Women's equality in all forms, campaign finance reform, sorely needed, it's the basis of our democracy, and minimum wage so people can live a decent life,» she said.

We need many more high quality workplace - based apprenticeships, all of them paying at least the minimum wage and which lead to guaranteed employment on completion.

Ultimately, the panel backed a $ 15 minimum wage, with different phase in periods for New York City - based workers and employees elsewhere in the state.

The current minimum wage in New York is $ 9, having increased for a final time on Jan. 1, based on legislation approved in 2013.

«The reality is that Upstate New York simply can't afford a $ 15 minimum wage,» said the Rochester - based Unshackle Upstate.

Cuomo suggest an unspecified carve out for agriculture - based businesses may be in the mix for the minimum wage agreement, calling it a potential «modification.»

They are trying to stop the Cuomo administration from raising tipped workers» base pay to the regular minimum wage and to overturn a...

Major issues during the 2014 legislative session included the biennial state budget, casino gambling, tax reform based on the recommendations of 2012 commission, and raising the minimum wage.

Greenberg says the poll numbers show the minimum wage issue is tailor made to please the liberal base.