Sentences with phrase «minimum wage mandate»

The National Federation of Independent Businesses is hosting its annual small business day in Albany on Tuesday, where thousands of small businesses are demonstrating against the $ 15 minimum wage mandate.

Also hindering business growth in Minnesota: a new minimum wage mandate that will raise the state's minimum wage in phases until it reaches $ 9.50 by 2016.

Higher wages sparked by a tight labor market and higher minimum wage mandates in several states.

Higher wages sparked by a tight labour market and higher minimum wage mandates in several states.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile in Bangladesh, the government has mandated a new minimum wage (the amount hasn't been specified) retroactive to May 1, and says it will strengthen pro-unionization rules and collective bargaining, among other reforms.

By contrast, states such as Connecticut and California mandate that even entry - level workers receive about $ 10 an hour, while cities and, increasingly, states such as Illinois and New York are phasing in a new minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.

Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below poverty level.

(A handful of states, including Alabama, Arkansas and Minnesota, mandate even less than the federal minimum wage, which was established as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and contained exemptions for some poorer states.)

With cities like Seattle raising minimum wage significantly higher than their state's mandate ($ 15 versus $ 9.32 per hour, in Seattle and Washington), minimum wage gaps» effect on competition and employment is becoming an issue across the country.

When Seattle hiked its minimum wage to $ 15 an hour from the state's mandated $ 9.32, for instance, at least one small - business owner was pleased: Makini Howell, who owns the nine - year - old vegan restaurant chain Plum Restaurants.

Beginning in July, the company will raise the minimum wage by $ 1 over the locally mandated minimum pay for its corporate - owned locations.

She's promised to increase the federal minimum wage and will call on Congress to mandate that investors hold on to stocks and bonds for a minimum time period, to curb Wall Street's so - called «churn and burn» reputation, and to reduce «investment speculators.»

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.

Due to mandated minimum wage increases, restaurants that were already operating on razor - thin margins must pay servers and cooks more, an increase that some simply can't sustain.

«After a budget process that included unprecedented anti-employer actions — including a drastic increase to the minimum wage and the most expansive paid family leave mandate in the nation — the employers and the communities we represent are deeply concerned about their ability to operate in a state that is consistently viewed among the worst in the nation to start or grow a business by every objective ranking while effectively competing in a global marketplace,» the groups wrote in the letter.

Senior state Democrats who have known Cuomo for decades told The Post that a speech in Buffalo last week was proof positive that the governor, once widely described as a political centrist, is seeking to use his Bernie Sanders - like «progressive» agenda of the nation's highest minimum wage and a costly family leave mandate as a springboard to the presidency.

They discuss the Senate's unusual configuration, the minimum wage, and mandate relief.

The governor proposed several initiatives that brought his platform further left towards liberal issues that de Blasio has been championing — such as increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, mandating 12 weeks of paid family leave and offering up $ 20 billion over the next five years to address homelessness by providing 20,000 more supportive housing beds and 100,000 units of affordable housing.

When a small business owner said the state's mandated increase in a minimum wage could hurt her operation, he said the higher pay should help the overall economy by giving people more spendable income.

«The goal should not be to mandate a minimum wage; the goal should be to have an economy that is growing so quickly, where there is a tight labor market so that employers are bidding up wages,» Schramm said.

«Now, he wants a $ 15 an hour minimum wage and a costly new paid family leave mandate.

GOP senators want a number of issues to be part of any minimum wage package, including lowering workers compensation and unemployment expenses for business, providing tax breaks for small companies and excluding some kinds of employers from the wage increase mandates, said Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

It goes to nonprofit groups that care for the about 130,000 New Yorkers with autism, brain injuries, Down syndrome and other disabilities, to help them keep pace with the state mandated increases in the state's minimum wage.

But a program of tax - free micro-zones on and near college campuses is nowhere near potent enough to overcome New York's other competitive disadvantages, which the governor has compounded with policies including opposition to natural gas pipelines, a costly renewable energy mandate, and the nation's highest minimum wage.

RYE BROOK, NY (January 2016)-- Unfunded mandates, soaring public pensions and efforts to raise the minimum wage were among the hot topics discussed at a Board of Directors meeting of the Business Council of Westchester held January 28 featuring special guest County Executive Robert P. Astorino.

It goes to nonprofit groups that care for the about 130,000 New Yorkers with autism, brain injuries, Down syndrome and other disabilities to help them keep pace with the state - mandated increases in the state's minimum wage.

But the project crashed to a halt in 2010 when the City Council mandated that workers be paid more than the minimum wage.

Especially when the budget sets new policy on issues like raising the minimum wage or mandating paid family leave — issues with long - term consequences.

ALBANY, NY (12/13/2010)(readMedia)-- Governor David A. Paterson today signed into law S. 8380 / A.11726, the Wage Theft Prevention Act, which addresses the failure by employers to pay statutorily - mandated minimum wages and overtime by requiring annual notifications of wages, expanding notifications, enhancing available remedies for wage law violations and strengthening whistleblower protectiWage Theft Prevention Act, which addresses the failure by employers to pay statutorily - mandated minimum wages and overtime by requiring annual notifications of wages, expanding notifications, enhancing available remedies for wage law violations and strengthening whistleblower protectiwage law violations and strengthening whistleblower protections.

The prevailing wage bill passed by the Council last month mandates higher - than - minimum wage pay for security guards and custodians who work in 41 large buildings where the city leases the majority of space.

Since taking power he has increased the minimum wage by 50 % (however an estimated 6 out of 10 Bolivians are part of the «informal economy» so such legally mandated changes have a relatively limited effect).

Australia guarantees 18 weeks of leave at the federally mandated minimum wage.

Minister Bains» mandate letter makes it clear that the province will be moving to a $ 15 / hour minimum wage in the next four years, and that the only question that remains is how it is going to get there.

The mandate of this panel would be to review Ontario's past experience with minimum wage revisions within the context of Ontario's social and economic progress and prevailing practices in other jurisdictions to recommend changes that could better serve Ontario's future needs.

Rochester partners Jeff LaBarge and Steve Jones, counsel Todd Shinaman, and associates Joe Carello and Kim Harding co-authored this column discussing New York's landmark legislation raising the minimum wage and mandating paid family leave.

While Bill 148 Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 (S.O. 2017 c. 22)-- including mandated minimum wage increases January 1, 2018 and January 1, 2019 — received Royal Assent November 27, second reading debate continued on Bill 177 Stronger, Fairer Ontario Act (Budget Measures).