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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.

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.

In Ontario, the proportion of minimum wage workers who are not teenagers has risen from 45 per cent to 61 per cent in a decade.

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Though she never took an active role in running the superstore like her brothers, she's become the target of pushback from minimum - wage Walmart employees who view her highfalutin lifestyle as insensitive and ignorant to the plights of many workers.

Clinton said she'd raise the minimum wage, though to an unspecified level, as part of a comprehensive package that would make companies «share profits with the workers who helped to make them.»

That means franchisors, who have long skirted issues of minimum wage and employee treatment by claiming responsibility rests solely in the hands of franchisees, can now be held legally accountable by workers.

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.

Chief Executive Doug McMillon recently said the company would improve opportunities for workers, including getting the roughly 6,000 people who make the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 an hour at its stores off that rate.

from minimum - wage Walmart employees who view her highfalutin lifestyle as insensitive and ignorant to the plights of many workers.

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

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.

This is the reality faced by millions of women who consider abortions each year, and the sad irony is the same pro-life politicians who want to force them to have their babies typically oppose raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid sick leave and parental leave for all American workers, and protecting the 20 million people who can finally afford health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act.

Two - thirds of the minimum wage workers, who are earning an average across this country of five dollars and fifty cents an hour (they're in this hotel today, and you'll pass them in the hall over and over again), are single mothers with three children.

One year after launching a task force to look into abusive work conditions in nail salons throughout the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the payment of $ 2 million to hundreds of workers who have been denied overtime and paid less than minimum wage.

A group of 16 actresses — including Sarah Jessica Parker, Jane Fonda and Natalie Portman — has sent a letter to Cuomo in support of a higher minimum wage for workers who rely on tips in New York.

«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.»

Last month, a State Appellate Court ruled in favor of two home healthcare workers who filed suit claiming the 13 - hour rule violated New York State's minimum wage laws, since they were made available to work 24 - hours a day by being live - in home health workers.

Having two different minimum wages in Upstate will make it difficult for some industries to recruit or keep good workers who could make more money at McDonald's, said Greg Biryla, executive director of Unshackle Upstate, a business group that opposed the wage hike.

The Legislature passed a bill Friday that requires Upstate minimum wage workers who aren't fast food workers to be paid a minimum wage of $ 12.50 an hour beginning Dec. 31, 2020.

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.

«Labor Day is a day we celebrate the great American work ethic and those hardworking men and women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare.

And he has failed to appoint worker representatives who truly understand the realities of being a minimum wage worker in New Yorkers,» added Hawkins.

«As I have said many times, no one who works a full - time job should have to live in poverty, and by increasing the minimum wage we can dramatically improve the lives of so many workers and their families.»

We're not only giving minimum wage workers the raise they deserve — we're putting real dollars back into the pockets of families who really need it,» said Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leader Jeffrey Klein in a statement.

Cuomo, along with George Gresham — the president of 1199 SEIU — took about half a dozen questions from participants, who asked how the governor reached the $ 15 figure, why was he able to raise the wage for fast food workers, and why the state is pushing to increase the minimum wage and not the federal government.

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.

Invoking the legacy of his father, who passed away a year ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo continued the push for a statewide minimum wage of $ 15 per hour, announcing a gradual pay increase for state university workers at a packed Midtown rally on Mon., Jan. 4th.

The bill, sponsored by Democratic Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle (a Rochester - area lawmaker) and Republican Sen. George Amedore, is aimed at codifying state Department of Labor guidelines that exempt delivery people who are hired as independent carriers from aspects of the unemployment, the minimum wage and workers» compensation coverage laws, according to the sponsor's memo.

We are gratified that the IDC recognizes the dedication of homecare workers providing compassionate care for seniors and people with disabilities,» said Gresham, who is leading the camapign for the $ 15 minimum wage.

People who clean NYC's streets and parks will be left out of the mayoral edict to raise the minimum wage for public workers because they are not directly employed by the city.

Jones, who supports raising the state minimum wage to at least $ 15 an hour, also criticized Cuomo for misleading the public about the status of a minimum wage board to provide a raise for food tip workers.

Greg Biryla, with the pro business group Unshackle Upstate, said earlier in the year that the program would be «particularly burdensome» for small employers who are already faced with high workers compensation costs, and for some, a phase in of a $ 15 dollar an hour minimum wage.

But Gjede suggested a $ 15 minimum wage for fast - food workers in New York and other neighboring states could ultimately benefit Connecticut's business climate, which was strongly criticized by some major employers who recently threatened to leave the state because of proposed business tax increases in one version of the state budget.

The majority of New Yorkers who support a minimum wage hike want it to be raised at least $ 10 an hour so workers don't have to flood food pantries looking for food to feed their families.

She and Wilkinson, who also lives in Syracuse, are among an estimated 18,500 low - wage workers in Onondaga County expected to get raises on Dec. 31 because of the state's higher minimum wage, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute.

And there's still no agreement yet whether to include workers who get tips, like wait servers, in the plan for a three year phase in of increases to the state's minimum wage.

JERSEY CITY — Tens of thousands of workers at the New York region's three major airports are poised to receive phased - in raises to $ 19 per hour in coming years, the highest minimum wage in the nation and the culmination of years of protests by employees who said they had to scrap every day just to get by.

«More people take us as a credible campaign, so they're willing to give us contributions,» Hawkins said by phone, ducking out of a state board that is holding a hearing on whether or not to raise the minimum wage for workers who rely on tips.

The council also voted to override the mayor's veto of a controversial bill that would force developers who receive more than a $ 1 million in city subsidies to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50 without — significantly more than the minimum wage.

Inside, dozens of fast food workers were among those who testified at the last hearing held by Cuomo's wage board, which is examining whether to raise the state's minimum wage beyond the current rate of increase to $ 9 an hour by the end of 2015.

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.

Gov. Cuomo's push for a higher minimum wage for fast - food workers directly affects Bruce Colley, who reportedly had an affair with Cuomo's then - wife in 2003 and is one of the...

CITY HALL — After months of heated debate and demonstrations, City Council Speaker Christine announced a deal Friday afternoon on controversial legislation that would force developers who receive big city subsidies to pay their workers more than the minimum wage but would exempt their tenants from doing the same.

Patrons of city nail salons should ask if workers are being paid the minimum wage, and pick a different salon if the answer is no, according to Governor Andrew Cuomo, who announced new measures to monitor salons on Monday morning.

The announcement comes after months of heated debate over the potential adoption of a new «living wage» bill that would force developers who receive big city subsidies to pay their workers more than minimum wage.

At a hastily - called press conference at City Hall, Quinn, who was joined by fellow council members and the head of the retail workers» union, announced plans to introduce a new «living wage» bill that will force developers receiving more than a $ 1 million in city subsidies to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour, plus benefits, or $ 11.50 without — significantly more than the $ 7.25 minimum wage.

Workers would see an average of $ 5,000 in additional pay per year, said Klein, who scoffed at critics who claim that raising the minimum wage would make businesses leave the state.

Inside, dozens of fast food workers are among the over 170 people who testified at the last hearing held by Cuomo's wage board, which is examining whether to raise the state's minimum wage beyond the current rate of increase to $ 9.00 an hour by the end of 2015.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown is one of three people who will soon help determine whether New York State raises its minimum wage for fast - food workers to $ 10.50 an hour.