Sentences with phrase «minimum wage offers»

«A welcome hike in the minimum wage offers the perfect cover for a war on the welfare state.

In today's dollars, the current federal minimum wage offers 30 percent less purchasing power than it did in 1968, according to NELP.

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Economic theory offers a perfectly reasonable assumption: a higher minimum wage leads to job loss.

Most of these organizations don't offer health insurance, retirement plans or pay equivalent to the minimum wage.

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.

He may have to develop one: Ted Kennedy told NPR this morning he plans to offer legislation to make the minimum wage a «living wage» — which would come out to some $ 9.50 an hour.

The memo, which was sent to store managers earlier this month, offers insight into the impact of minimum wage hikes in 21 states due to come into effect on or around Jan. 1, 2015.

She has started offering merit increases twice a year, and she pays all employees more than the minimum wage.

However, hikes in minimum wages in a number of states and reports that prominent companies are having to offer higher pay to attract workers may start to show up in wage statistics in the months ahead.

Bertolini has raised the minimum hourly wage for Aetna employees to $ 16, offers wellness programs that include meditation and stress reduction and gave as a Christmas gift to his leadership team French economist Thomas Piketty's «Capital in the 21st Century,» which documents the concentration of wealth and income.

Additionally, the company offers a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage, profit sharing, health and dental benefits, with plans to increase the company's workforce and open a new facility in the next 14 months.

These investments to expand and strengthen child care and early education programs complement the Administration's other efforts to help working families, including offering workers the opportunity to earn paid sick and family leave, a higher minimum wage, and equal pay for women.

The party's immigration policy offers a subtle combination of restricted migrant access to benefits and a raised and better - enforced minimum wage.

(Incredibly, as reported in the Daily News, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan offered late in the legislative session to pass a minimum wage hike favored by de Blasio in exchange for the mayor's agreement to drop his opposition to the police and fire disability pension measure.

Tom Precious: «The administration statement, offering threats and olive branches of sorts, served one purpose: It signaled areas of the budget likely still open, from a proposed increase in the minimum wage to the $ 1.5 billion upstate fund.»

The Labour plan is to raise national minimum wage a bit, and incentivise companies to offer the living wage via a tax rebate.

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.

You suggested # 1,500; we're offering businesses # 2,275 — half the minimum wage for a young person.

But Governor Cuomo offered a carve out from the $ 15 minimum wage for farmers, though he provided no details.

The government reform group Citizen Action offers a theory on why the minimum wage increase seems to be stuck.

Skelos offered statistics that he says show that raising the minimum wage for a family with two entry level workers would actually cost that family benefits and some tax advantages.

Lawmakers plan on leaving for the summer on June 21st, but they continue to be gridlocked on the issues of raising the state's minimum wage from $ 7.25 an hour to $ 8.50 an hour, and offering tax breaks to small businesses as an incentive to create more jobs.

Just last week we increased the minimum wage for city employees to $ 15 and offered 6 weeks paid parental leave to 20,000 city employees.»

Former Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins offered a different critique, saying all workers, not just those at fast food establishments, deserve a minimum wage increase.

As CBS2's Marcia Kramer reported, sources say the offer to hike the minimum wage, which could have put money in the pockets of thousands of fast - food workers and others who toil for base pay, was offered as part of a deal to revamp disability pensions for cops and firefighters injured in the line of duty.

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers reached a budget deal late Thursday that would eventually raise the minimum wage to $ 15, as well as create a program that would offer the longest period of paid family leave in the country.

The owner offered opportunity to a town that desperately needed it, but the looming minimum - wage hike — which raised his cost per order by as much as 77 percent — made it impossible to continue to operate there.

He says when the governor and lawmakers raised the minimum wage two years, ago, they also had the authority to offer small businesses a tax credit to help them afford the higher wages.

DeFrancisco, R - Syracuse, who is the Senate's deputy majority leader, said he thinks there's nothing that Gov. Andrew Cuomo could offer the Republican - controlled state Senate that would persuade senators to approve the $ 15 minimum wage.

Mr. Cuomo said this minimum wage proposal, like the since - approved hike for fast food workers, would be phased in, but offered no other details.

In his statement, Flanagan did not mention the minimum wage, but instead chose to focus on Republican bread - and - butter issues like delivering a sixth timely budget that he said controls spending and offers tax relief and higher levels of school funding.

The W.F.P.'s leaders say that the who's - up - who's - down horse trading is less important than issues Cuomo committed to support in the video he recorded to win their endorsement — most notably offering localities some say in increasing their own minimum wage.

«At face value, abolishing tipping and offering higher wages instead, sounds like a reasonable and necessary action, especially when you consider the federal minimum wage for nontipped workers is $ 7.25 and the federal subminimum wage for tipped workers is at a measly $ 2.13 per hour rate,» said McKenzie.

Whereas indie bookstores often pay minimum wage and offer no benefits.

Trying to pick winners was agonizing — in part, because we were forced to realize that we had no financial magic to offer people mired in minimum - wage poverty or suffering from devastating medical problems.

What followed after that job was a string of part time jobs that offered little to no benefits and paid minimum wage.

In this mobile performative intervention, Muñoz employed a bike trailer carrying open - source technologies such as Arduino boards and electronic components used in phones and cameras to offer residents in economically disadvantaged areas of Mexico the chance to work for U.S. minimum wage, more than ten times the local minimum wage.

There are many jobs, along with a high turnover rate that fortunately motivates hotels to treat employees well, but those jobs pay the federal minimum wage, offer only seasonal employment, and pull people away from their families in the region's interior.

The Review also suggests that HMRC should become responsible for the enforcement of holiday pay in order to provide a better route to enforcement than that currently offered by the Tribunal system (HMRC currently has enforcement powers in respect of statutory sick pay and the national minimum wage).

Larger businesses will have only three years to reach the $ 15 minimum wage threshold, but that deadline would be extended to four years for businesses that offer company sponsored health care plans.

According to the Department of Labor, offering this choice may not be sufficient to meet the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which guarantees certain employment protections including minimum wage and overtime.

«We offer a supportive environment and a wage that is above the Law Society's recommended trainee minimum salary for the regions; it's even above the recommended for trainees in London, such is our commitment to attracting and retaining the best people.»

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In fact, yesterday a court in the UK ruled that Deliveroo has no obligation to offer its couriers minimum wage or holiday pay, classifying its delivery people as «self - employed contractors.»

Jobs offered on and off - campus typically are minimum wage or a little higher.

Someone's entitlement to the minimum wage will depend on whether the work experience offered makes the individual a worker for minimum wage purposes.

Some unpaid internships offer genuinely good experience, and would simply not exist if minimum wage was enforced.

Legally, all internships should be paid at least the minimum wage, but not all organisations will offer paid work experience or internships, and it is extremely important to know your rights - so read up on them.

Rather, companies with minimum wage employees and volunteers are now screening applicants for positions that offer unsupervised access to people or property or other such positions in which hiring the wrong person can bring unwanted liability.