Sentences with phrase «minimum wage level»

Both Governor Cuomo and the Assembly have proposed measures to raise New York State's minimum wage, including a higher minimum wage level for New York City in the... (read more)

Both Governor Cuomo and the Assembly have proposed measures to raise New York State's minimum wage, including a higher minimum wage level for New York City in the Governor's bill, or, in the case of the Assembly bill, for New York City and the large downstate suburban counties (those with populations in excess of 900,000, i.e., Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties).

California schools Superintendent Jack O'Connell says he has no plans to cut the pay of education department staff members following Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's July 31 executive order to cut pay for more than 200,000 state employees to the federal minimum wage level of $ 6.55 an hour.

If the 13 states that increased minimum wage levels in 2014, including California, Ohio and New York, introduced similar legislation, or if such legislation were taken up at the federal level, that gap, which sits at around 273:1, might begin to narrow.

Rising costs also pose a threat to operators, particularly those operators in areas such as the Northeast who may be affected by higher minimum wage levels or electricity prices.

Similarly, California and New York recently passed legislation that would increase their minimum wage levels to $ 15 in phases over the next few years.

Minimum wage levels are set by the provinces, and Ontario's decision to raise its baseline requirement to $ 11 an hour earlier this year sparked significant debate about the economic impact on workers and employers.

So even though the minimum wage has been raised in Massachusetts and out West, when the minimum wage level is raised, that means the families that have been living on food stamps while they've been working at McDonald's or at other low - wage companies don't qualify anymore.

Only recently, too, did Romney reveal that he indeed will be a true «mandate» POTUS (video for that too) by indicating employers be made to give automatic pay raises that are tied to inflation to all employees at the minimum wage level.

Evaluating the minimum wage level should be done through the state legislative process so that we have a real opportunity to discuss the positive and negative effects of raising the minimum wage through all labor sectors of New York State,» said Legislator Ted Morton.

On a larger scale: a group of citizens can organise the adoption of a rule or standard that curbs the power of the powerful and that limits their freedom to act in the name of an accepted social good (a minimum wage level, a prohibition of the recruitment of child soldiers).