Sentences with phrase «minimum wage law groups»

Seattle's new minimum wage law groups franchises with large businesses, putting the pressure on independent franchisees to increase workers» pay at an accelerated pace (a move that sparked a discrimination lawsuit from the IFA).

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Franchise owners in Seattle are still on track to be grouped with large businesses under the city's new minimum wage law.

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.

Michael Kink, with the progressive group the Strong Economy for All Coalition, says Cuomo's strategy shows that he is serious about getting a law passed that would bring New York from the 20th highest minimum wage in the country, to the number three position.

The leader of the Business Council of New York State says her group will fight Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to raise the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, but concedes that the legislation may become law soon.

The progressive group Citizen Action decried the lower rate for upstate saying, compared to California's minimum age law passed earlier Thursday, which plans to raise its minimum wage statewide to $ 15, New York's plan is «a day late and $ 2.50 short».

A new report from a labor - backed advocacy group — the National Employment Law Project — claims a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage could be outdated in Westchester by 2021.

On a more serious note, as intern - advocacy group Internocracy pointed out last year, employers often believe there is a «grey area» around internships and the minimum wage laws that allows them to take on unpaid interns as long as both sides understand it is a voluntary position.