Sentences with phrase «most minimum wage workers»

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I later learned that in 2007, Circuit City had fired the chain's 3,400 most experienced salespeople and replaced them with generic, untrained, near - minimum - wage workers.

However the most recent available data — from 2008 — showed that only 416 of those federal workers earned the minimum wage, leading some to say the NDP is exaggerating the measure's potential impact.

Today, fast - food workers — who most often work for franchisees — are campaigning for a new minimum wage of $ 15 an hour.

Earlier this year, Walmart — which last year reported $ 485.9 billion in revenue — said it would raise its hourly minimum wage to $ 10 for most workers, but activist groups say many employees are still struggling to make ends meet.

Minimum wage is a complex and sensitive issue for workers and employers alike, one that is watched very carefully by the 98 % of B.C.'s businesses who are small businesses — including most of you, our Members.

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.

The governments of British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario have raised or committed to raising the minimum wage for most workers to $ 15 an hour by 2018 (Ontario and Alberta) and 2021 (B.C.).

The food service industry employs most of the country's minimum wage workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and within that sector fast food jobs are typically among those that pay the lowest hourly rates.

Walmart pay most of their employees minimum wage, and those workers get less than 20 hours a week, earn on average $ 16,000 a year, and need to apply for food stamps to raise a family... and those Walmart employees on government help cost each US taxpayer $ 17.00 a year...

Most childcare workers are paid very little (usually just above minimum wage), and the demands of keeping up with several babies or toddlers each day can be wearying.

It is the Wal - Mart's of the business world who are profiting most from the low minimum wage standard and also relying on taxpayer subsidies to keep their poverty wage workers fed, housed, and health enough to work for them because these minimum wage workers are paid so low they qualify for food stamps, Section 8 and public housing rent subsidies, Medicaid, and the Earned Income Tax Credit,» Hawkins said.

«Last session Senator Murphy stood with 1199SEIU members on important matters to healthcare workers, including increasing the minimum wage and securing the nation's most comprehensive paid family leave program,» said Helen Schaub, the New York State Director of Police and Legislation.

We all know that the current minimum wage is less that the electricity bill paid by most workers.

Minimum - wage workers at Erie Community College — most of them students — will get a raise of 50 cents per hour beginning tomorrow and an additional $ 1 per hour raise beginning Dec. 1.

New York's minimum wage for most workers is currently $ 9 an hour.

«Giving minimum wage workers a small increase over three years and linking it to a business tax break that will actually encourage the creation of more minimum wage jobs is unconscionable, especially in a state that already has the most inequitable income distribution in the nation,» said Donohue.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has instituted a minimum wage increase for most workers in the state, now wants to extend that rate to tipped workers, including wait staff and car washers.

Last month, McDonald's announced that it would raise its workers» wages to $ 10 an hour, higher than the minimum wage in most of the nation.

Just the other day Connecticut made national headlines by voting to raise their minimum wage to $ 10.10 / hr, which gives a full time worker $ 21,000 a year in pre-tax income, in one of the most expensive states in the country.

To much fanfare, most of it probably self - generated, Walmart issued its second round of wage increases in late February, taking the minimum hourly pay for as many as one million workers at its domestic stores up by a dollar to $ 10 an hour.

This minimum wage increase will apply to most workers whether you are working in full time job, part time job or a temporary job arranged by a work agency.

Most recently (Jan. 9, 2018) on the Larry Fedoruk late afternoon newstalk show (St Catharines, CKTB 610), Ontario Network of Injured Workers Groups president Willy Noiles discussed deeming and the WSIB's use of the minimum wage to cut benefits.

As in Laval the point was made again that the only permissible protectionism here is under the Posted Worker Directive (96 / 71 / EC) which only protects legally fixed minimum wages, the irony here being that even under the German system (which is most likely to engage the directive on the basis not of a statutory minimum wage, but an «entrenched» collective agreement) this collective agreement was only a local and specific one and so not «entrenched».

Most internships provide at least the National Minimum Wage, especially if you're performing the role of a worker.

In most parts of the country, it costs too much to build a new house or apartment to rent that home or sell that home at a price that a minimum wage worker can afford — without help from government housing programs.