Sentences with phrase «minimum wage bills»

The governor, himself a supporter of past minimum wage bills, hasn't taken a position on this proposal.

The minimum wage bill is one that's supported not just by unions, but also the labor - backed Working Families Party.

That's fair enough, but the minimum wage bill is easily the most significant legislation they have every agreed on.

Cuomo, a persuasive politician who has engineered numerous legislative victories in the last 18 months, told reporters that passing the minimum wage bill through the GOP - controlled Senate would be harder than passing same - sex marriage.

«I certainly do not want to hurt jobs, so we will not be passing his minimum wage bill.»

The IDC, which features moderate - to - conservative Democrats like David Valesky, have aligned themselves with Senate Republicans on several issues, save for their support of a minimum wage bill that the business groups have generally opposed.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver quickly amended the minimum wage bill in his house (which already included indexing) to match Obama's.

Clinton commended Gov. Andrew Cuomo for working to pass a $ 15 / hour minimum wage bill in the New York Senate today.

Community activist Jo Ann Lum: «So we're out here to say, like, Cuomo, you messed up with the minimum wage bill that you passed.

Though the business community has disagreed with Cuomo over the minimum wage bill and his recent executive actions raising the wage for fast food workers, Briccetti says she understand the governor has political considerations with the left of his party.

Sen. Diane Savino proposed a regional minimum wage bill, but she also supports the phase in to $ 15 an hour.

Passed a separate minimum wage bill on March 5, 2013 that would increase the minimum wage to $ 9.00 per hour on January 1, 2014 with an automatic COLA adjustment annually thereafter.

«I don't think the IDC played a definitive role in any of that,» Lipton said, «and I think a progressive majority in the state Senate could have gotten much better raise the age legislation passed, could have gotten a much stronger minimum wage bill, not to mention all the stuff that's left undone.»

After a decidedly right of center first term (with the exception of marriage equality — which was all politics, and he still lost the gay vote to Teachout in the primary), Cuomo is now trying to lurch left by championing a minimum wage bill that is still weaker than what advocates wanted and what he refused to force through in his first term.

NY needs job growth and policies that support that and so far Cuomo's done everything in his power to chase business out of NY, like last year's minimum wage bill.

UPDATE: The $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage bill has passed both houses of the California Legislature and is headed to the governor's desk.

You should also know that in the near future, Senator Dean Skelos will be allowing the Minimum Wage Bill and the so - called Reproductive Health Bill to come to the Senate Floor, knowing that the Democrats will be voting for both, and in the process, bringing legalized late - term abortion to New York State.

The head of the national gay group Log Cabin Republicans called on Democratic leaders to overrule Baucus and to allow the domestic partner measure to be considered as an amendment to the minimum wage bill.

Skelos stopped short, though of completely ruling out passage of a minimum wage bill in his house.

Assembly Democrats, led by Speaker Sheldon Silver have already approved a minimum wage bill, while Senate Republicans, led by Senator Dean Skelos, have approved the business tax cuts.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the state's new minimum wage bill, approved in the recently - passed state budget, this morning.

«This was a false choice... a deeply flawed and severely limited minimum wage bill that never would have passed in exchange for a fiscally reckless pension bill that would have cost New York City taxpayers $ 6 billion,» mayoral spokeswoman Karen Hinton said.

The two are so entwined that the governor deployed the assemblyman as proxy to an endorsement meeting of the Village Independent Democrats club that year — only for the group to endorse Mr. Cuomo's long - shot primary opponent Zephyr Teachout, and cite the minimum wage bill as a reason.

Reacting to reports that the new minimum wage might not be paid this year because it was not captured in the 2018 budget, the NLC chief expressed confidence that the minimum wage bill would be passed by the National Assembly and implemented by the Federal Government.

The official copy of New York State's $ 15 minimum wage bill is displayed at the Jacob Javits Center, Monday, April 4, 2016, in New York.

Still, the elected officials argued there are key dates for the minimum wage bill coming up much sooner: the primary and general elections that will decide control of the State Senate.

But, Senator Cousins says, she doesn't know if the minimum wage bill or any other legislation will get passed in before the session ends.

Lawmakers are expected to begin voting Thursday night or Friday on the minimum wage bill, a middle class tax cut, and school funding.

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, on Tuesday said the House is ready to pass the minimum wage bill as the legislature...

Not exact matches

Bills to raise the federal minimum wage, currently at $ 7.25 an hour, for other workers have gotten signficant pushback from lawmakers, who recently killed legislation in the Senate.

One of America's largest restaurant owners says food price inflation and minimum wage hikes will mean a bigger bill at the end of your next meal out.

In April, a bill to raise the minimum wage to $ 10.10 failed in the Senate.

In cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, bills have been passed to gradually increase minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

New York City has a proposed bill that could raise the minimum to $ 15 and there's a bill before congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $ 12 an hour by 2020.

The last bill, signed in July 2014, increased the state's hourly minimum wage to $ 9.

While governor, Chafee reportedly signed three bills in three years that raised the state's minimum wage.

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.

showdown continues between Walmart and the neighboring District of Columbia, where Mayor Vincent Gray could sign a bill that would make large retailers to pay their employees a 50 percent premium over the city's minimum wage.

Sanders said the bill would empower an «unelected and undemocratic oversight board» and criticized the legislation for allowing the governor of Puerto Rico to cut the minimum wage temporarily for some younger workers.

While they work their minimum wage job 40 to 80 hours a week to pay the minimal bills.

Now, $ 1,000 a year might not be much for someone like Mike Huckabee, but for a lot of families in this economy, working minimum - wage jobs that barely cover the rent, it's a steep enough price to sometimes put them in the position of having to choose between paying for contraception and paying the water bill.

Mom and Dad both work minimum wage jobs that barely make the bills, how the hell are they going to save enough money to allow mom to stay home for a year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday shrugged off the call from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for an even either minimum wage increase than what is proposed in the state budget, saying it's up to the state Legislature to vote on the issue, not the mayor.

A new debate is brewing between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over the minimum wage.

Senate Republicans have balked at the measure and this afternoon Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, R - Nassau County, ruled out passing any minimum wage increase this legislative session in a brief question - and - answer session (he had previously hedged by saying he would only rule out passing Silver's bill).

In a speech to some of NYC's most powerful business leaders, Mayor Bill de Blasio called on the private sector to voluntarily hike the minimum wage to $ 13 an hour.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called that proposal a job killer, but asked earlier this month if he was ruling out any increase of the minimum wage this session, the Long Island Republican only said he would not take up «Silver's bill.»

Krueger noted that things had been so rushed that the minimum wage deal wasn't correctly included in the ELFA bill, and the Legislature was required to do a chapter amendment to address that — an unusual move.

Unions have made noise about challenging Sen. John DeFrancisco, the deputy majority leader, over his vocal opposition to a minimum wage increase, though that could be tempered after all 31 Republicans backed the budget bill containing the hike.

Skelos in the past hasn't ruled out passing other measures as well, but with wide support for the minimum wage increase reflected in polls and the Assembly's passage of the bill today, the political pressure on the 32 - member conference has intensified.