Sentences with phrase «number of minimum wage workers»

The job losses would be concentrated among teens and young adults, while the number of minimum wage workers in Ontario would increase from just over 500,000 to 1.6 million in 2019, said a report released by the province's Financial Accountability Office.

At the January 12th membership meeting the Village Independent Democrats endorsed a letter to Speaker Christine Quinn applauding her support of the Fair Wage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial number of minimum wage workers who remain unprotected and without enough of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our city.

The job losses would be concentrated among teens and young adults, while the number of minimum wage workers in Ontario would increase from just over 500,000 to 1.6 million in 2019, said a report released by the province's Financial Accountability Office.

Not exact matches

While some workers may lose their job after the minimum wage increase (more on that in a minute), a very large number of workers will see an important pay hike, and that will loop back into the economy.

So if this minimum wage increase comes to fruition on the national level, they won't crumble or reduce their number of workers.

A number of Liberal party supporters and candidates on Twitter cited a government study on federally regulated industries showing that only 416 of those workers made minimum wage in 2008.

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.

The cause that prompted him to speak at the Cambridge Union and at other universities, for example, was the campaign for the Living Wage, a wage meant to cover the costs of life that the current minimum wage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning workers within our multi-billion pound UniversWage, a wage meant to cover the costs of life that the current minimum wage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning workers within our multi-billion pound Universwage meant to cover the costs of life that the current minimum wage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning workers within our multi-billion pound Universwage does not and one which the Cambridge newspaper «Varsity» recently revealed was not being extended to large numbers of low - earning workers within our multi-billion pound University.

«Stuck in a familiar groove, Len goes on to suggest that all the ills that he claims are befalling Labour are because of actions of so called «Blairites» — those terrible people who introduced the minimum wage and increased the number, the stature and indeed the pay of public sector workers across the country.»

A Labour administration would focus on three things to help ease pressure on public services and wages including better enforcement of the minimum wage, cracking down on recruitment agencies who only supplied workers from particular countries and looking at areas and types of jobs where there were large numbers of foreign workers.

As part of a policy review, Miliband proposes sanctions against labour agencies that advertise solely for immigrant workers, an early warning system if some industries are employing disproportionately large number of foreign workers, a doubling of fines if employers undercut the minimum wage, and no early lifting of migrant barriers for new EU countries such as Croatia.

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.

Russell Sykes, with the Empire Center, says IRS numbers show 75 % to 80 % of minimum wage workers who are eligible for the tax credit actually do receive it.

It is commendable that he, as well as numerous members of the Democratic party, believe that all current workers at minimum wage and future workers be given a more conducive living wage but in practice it would cause a greater number of current workers and perspective workers to be or remain unemployed.

He said, Zamfara workers were faced with a number of problems which include failure to pay the salaries of 1,400 recruited by the government more than two years ago, non payment of backlog of pension and gratuities, non payment of minimum wage to primary school teachers and local government employees as well as non payment of annual salary increment.

While there have been major debates this year over Cuomo's plan for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage and a family leave policy, talk about workers» compensation has been relatively muted — perhaps because of its complexity and number of moving parts in the system.

The numbers have remained mired despite over all popularity for two of the governor's signature programs, gun control, known as the SAFE Act, and raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour.

A number of Liberal party supporters and candidates on Twitter cited a government study on federally regulated industries showing that only 416 of those workers made minimum wage in 2008.

In our experience, a great number of workers are being denied minimum wage or overtime pay.

However, given the economic landscape and the low number of unemployed workers, the expectations around minimum wage careers are shifting.