Sentences with phrase «of a minimum wage increase»

They say doing so is a necessary measure to help offset the added costs of the minimum wage increase.

Even so, smaller businesses will also feel the affects of minimum wage increases by large corporations, Price says.

Lawmakers approved a series of minimum wage increases in 2013, the last of which will take the wage to $ 9 at year's end.

Starting at the end of this year, a new set of minimum wage increases will be phased in across the state.

We want to understand the impact of a minimum wage increase on the economy because as you know, Paul, for everything is about getting the economy going; getting jobs for all New Yorkers.»

After the announcement, reporters asked the governor how he would accomplish passage of a minimum wage increase and bypass opposition in the Republican state Senate.

The plan also calls for a «pause» in 2019 to reevaluate the effects of the minimum wage increase before continuing to increase the rate.

Kink said that Cuomo's public support of a minimum wage increase is «valuable» but also just makes political sense.

The Senator speaking after a public forum, where backers of the minimum wage increase testified, says he views it as a moral issue.

«As I have stated previously, I am not supportive of the minimum wage increase plan as presented by the governor.

Liberals are leaning on the governor to pass some form of a minimum wage increase this year and some Democrats — especially in the Senate — are skeptical of his good public relationship with the GOP leadership in the upper chamber.

He says he supports the idea of a minimum wage increase, but hasn't pushed the Senate GOP to take up the bill this session, insisting that this issue is harder to get consensus on than even the same - sex marriage bill he successfully moved through both houses of the Legislature last summer.

Asked what he thought Silver was championing the cause of the minimum wage increase this year, Skelos chalked it up to politics.

Beginning in 2019, the state DOB Director will conduct an annual analysis of the economy in each region and the effect of the minimum wage increases statewide to determine whether a temporary suspension of the scheduled increases is necessary.

«It's utterly unprecedented in the United States,» said Paul Sonn, legal co-director of the National Employment Law Project in Washington, D.C. «We're not aware of any state that has adopted a tax credit remotely resembling this one, which will have the taxpayer pick up the tab for the cost of the minimum wage increase for a certain category of worker.»

«Are the Republicans really going to stand in the way of minimum wage increase?

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters earlier in the week that he's against a lengthy stretch out of the minimum wage increase, saying he doesn't want a deal where «none of us will be here by the time it gets to $ 15».

Despite the lack fo the Dream Act in the budget, some members of the Latino caucus conceded they have no choice but to vote in favor anyway because of the minimum wage increase.

The council today will preview its formal testimony, issuing a wide - ranging statement outlining its objections to the fast food wage board, which Briccetti said should defer to the Legislature on the question of minimum wage increases.

Those are some of the challenges that surround the whole notion of the minimum wage increase,» Valesky said.

The Assembly Republican leader, in a statement, responded to the Speaker's desire to speed up implementation of the minimum wage increase.

Earlier in the day, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared alongside Cuomo to rally for the passage of a minimum wage increase.

«If you're McDonald's, you can raise McNuggets by a quarter to help pay for the cost of a minimum wage increase,» Liebman said.

Senator Klein is a major backer of the minimum wage increase.

«If you asked him for comment today, you'll find out he's very supportive of this legislation, he's very supportive of a minimum wage increase and if you make that inquiry you'll find that to be the case,» Silver said.

A review of studies suggests even where the impact of minimum wage increases is not «benign,» job loss evidence has to be weighed against what happens to the purchasing power of the remaining workers.

CORRECTION: The original version of this article misattributed an estimate about the effects of a minimum wage increase.

Klein argues that the IDC has helped convince Republicans to act on left - leaning issues, including the passage of a minimum wage increase and paid family leave in 2016, and universal prekindergarten.

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein was doubtful that an economic analysis of the impact of a minimum wage increase to $ 15 is needed, he said in a Capital Tonight interview on Thursday.

«If you're McDonalds, you can raise McNuggets by a quarter, to help pay for the cost of a minimum wage increase,» Liebman said.