Sentences with phrase «of low waged workers»

We know — and the government knows full well — that millions of low waged workers are just about keeping their heads above water.

Democrats in the State Senate held a forum promoting a hike in the state's minimum wage, while a conservative group says there's already a government program in place that boosts the earnings of low wage workers well above the current minimum standard.

«We know from national studies that one - third of low wage workers experience wage theft every week.

«We can no longer ignore the needs of low wage workers in this city,» said Stuart Appelbaum, the president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, the most vocal labor group on living wages.

Not exact matches

These are apparel workers, some of the low - wage workhorses who power the global garment industry.

«Those companies have been around for a long time and have been part and parcel of the problem of falling wages for low - wage workers,» Price says.

And that's not just the case for those working for the big - name brands: A November Bureau of Labor Statistics study found that just 6 % of low - wage workers in the U.S. have access to paid family leave.

Several hundred marched near Disney World in October and in December Orlando workers rejected a company proposal to boost the lowest wage by $ 1 over two years to $ 11 an hour because it would still leave new hires at $ 10, according to Jeremy Haicken, president of Unite Here Local 737, which represents food and housekeeping workers.

Thousands of low - paid workers striking in hundreds of cities across the country, demanding a minimum wage of up to $ 15 per hour to replace the current $ 7.25 minimum wage, showing that an increasing amount of those even in jobs are unhappy with their lot.

It's not just entry - level workers or low - wage clerks who collect and process data; people whose annual incomes exceed $ 200,000 spend more than 30 % of their time doing so, too.

Therefore, to avoid offering employee health insurance and the penalties for non-provision of insurance, some employers are paying contractors to assist their low - wage workers with Medicaid signups, the Wall Street Journal reports.

During Zappos's early years, Hsieh decided that customer service was the most important function of his company and proceeded to craft dozens of counterintuitive policies that lavished benefits on the low - wage workers who answered the phones.

It starts with rock - bottom wages: its garment workers are the world's lowest paid, earning a minimum wage of just US$ 37 a month.

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

Cohen is also at the center of a huge debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private sector employment over the same time period.

«But some jobs for low - wage workers would probably be eliminated, the income of most workers who became jobless would fall substantially, and the share of low - wage workers who were employed would probably fall slightly.»

«At a time when persistent high unemployment is putting enormous downward pressure on wages, such a minimum - wage increase would provide a much - needed boost to the earnings of low - wage workers,» EPI noted in a joint letter addressed to House and Senate leadership.

«That is because the weekly earnings gains enjoyed by low - wage workers who remain employed is considerably bigger than the weekly earnings lost as a result of lower employment.»

Under federal wage law, employers who pay the tipped minimum wage, which is lower than the standard minimum wage of $ 7.25 per hour, can't pool and share tips with non-tipped workers.

Potential underreporting of self - employment income makes it difficult to draw definitive conclusions on independent contractor earnings when compared with their peers, but the data clearly show a wide variance in earnings among independent contractors and lower wages for low - wage independent workers than low - wage employees even after adjustments for underreporting.

Across the country, there is overwhelming momentum in favor of raising wages for our nation's lowest - wage workers.

Wage and benefit increases of 15 to 20 percent per year at the average Chinese factory will slash China's labor - cost advantage over low - cost states in the U.S., from 55 percent today to 39 percent in 2015, when adjusted for the higher productivity of U.S. workers.

Van Parijs and Vanderborght trace the political roots of guaranteed basic income to England in the late 18th century, when Prime Minister William Pitt proposed to replace the country's poor law, which channeled public generosity through gruesome workhouses, with cash supplements to low - wage workers.

By contrast, many other independent workers are in low - wage occupations where the supply of labor is huge and turnover is constant; if someone leaves because of crummy pay or wretched working conditions, the employer can easily tap somebody else to fill the slot.

For example, while a number of communities are debating how to provide benefits to gig economy workers, without policies that ensure a baseline wage threshold or that grant workers a voice in determining their wages and benefits, low - road companies could respond to requirements to contribute to benefits with commensurate decreases in pay.

The Fight for $ 15 movement started with fast - food workers, with a one - day strike by 200 cooks and order - takers, but its strategists have maneuvered to transform it into a broad movement of low - wage workers.

It hasn't positioned itself as the champion of low - wage workers.»

According to research from The Pew Charitable Trusts, many employers are hesitant to offer retirement plans as part of a benefits package because some believe low - wage workers would struggle to afford regular contributions.

Moreover, the low jobless rate is finally delivering some long - missing bargaining clout to middle - and lower - wage workers, and the last thing those workers need is to fight against the headwinds of higher interest rates.

These are just a few of the companies that insist their low - wage workers are independent business people.

In terms of wage trends across the distribution, a strong theme of my own work, often with economist Dean Baker, is that as the unemployment rate falls, the tightening job market disproportionately helps lower - wage and minority workers.

And it shows that old, young, female and black low - skilled workers face the highest levels of unemployment after a minimum wage increase.

In that sense, the Fed has the potential to make a huge structural difference in the economic lives of blacks and other minorities by heavily weighting the full employment part of the their mandate relative to the inflation part, especially since there's still considerable slack in the job market, with lower - wage, minority workers facing the brunt of it, and — importantly — little evidence of inflationary pressure (if anything, the Fed has missed their inflation target on the low side for a few years running now).

«Based on [current population survey] data from 1980 - 2015, we find that increasing the minimum wage decreases significantly the share of automatable employment held by low - skilled workers,» the study says.

The soft cap could be even lower if the bank employs contract workers earning the minimum wage of 5,000 shekels ($ 1,314) a month.

Financial sales jobs are particularly attractive because they pay well above average, and yet a good percentage of workers in the field are former low - wage workers.

Though most associates remained on the job, many credit the event with being the public launch of the low - wage workers» movement.

Last weekend's Cambridge Analytica news — that the company was able to access tens of millions of users» data by paying low - wage workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to take a Facebook survey, which gave Cambridge Analytica access to Facebook's dossier on each of those turkers» Facebook friends — has hammered home two problems: first...

An influx of 50,000 Amazon workers could force more lower - wage and middle - income workers from the city and put more pressure on housing prices and congested roadways.

Employer demands for a two - tier wage system is a fact of life in the present economy, condemning younger workers to a permanent low - wage existence.

Other limiting factors are low wage growth, high unemployment, the large numbers of workers who have dropped out of the labor force, declining home prices, higher tax payments and a flattening out of transfer payments.

As a result, unsurprisingly, these states have the lowest percentage of workers making the federal minimum wage.

Put differently: The food - service industry made up 30 percent of U.S. hourly workers earning the lowest legal wage, and 65 percent of workers earning less than that.

That wage will only apply to government workers, and more importantly, fast - food workers, the latter of which rank among the lowest paid workers in New York, earning $ 15,954 / year on average.

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.

Come to think of it, they shouldn't even have a minimum wage in place either because that's protecting lower level workers.

Its basic message was that blue - collar workers - the sort of people who in my youth often made as much money as college - educated middle managers - were losing ground in the face of competition from low - wage workers in Asia.

It probably requires some kind of wage subsidy for the lowest - earning workers.

These victories have had an important impact on low - wage workers in dozens of cities around the country.

In Low Wage Workers in the New Economy (Urban Institute, 2001), Richard Kazis notes that the incomes of more than 9 million working Americans are below the poverty level.