Sentences with phrase «of the minimum wage increases statewide»

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.

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The plan would also increase the wages of home health aides over the next six years so their pay is above the statewide minimum wage.

The current statewide minimum wage is $ 8.75 an hour, set to increase to $ 9 at the end of the year.

A coalition of statewide and regional business groups on Wednesday formed a coalition to formally oppose efforts to increase the minimum wage.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants another increase to the minimum wage, this time to $ 10.50 per hour statewide by the end of 2016 and to $ 11.50 per hour in New York City.

The increase is part of Governor Andrew Cuomo's multi-year phase - in plan for an eventual $ 15 statewide minimum wage for all workers.

Cuomo is being cynical and deceptive, saying he supports important legislation like a minimum wage increase but making sure it will never happen by backing Senate Republicans (who won 42 % of the vote statewide yet could control the Senate only because of the gerrymander supported by Cuomo & Assembly Democrats.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced an increase in the minimum wage on Sept. 10, the same day Acting State Labor Commissioner Mario Musolino signed an order designating a $ 15.00 per hour statewide minimum wage for fast - food workers — the level recommended by a State Department of Labor wage board over the summer, according to a press release from Cuomo's office.

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.

When gaining the endorsement of the labor - backed Working Families Party, he pledged to enact the public financing of political campaigns statewide, the DREAM Act for undocumented immigrants, allow local governments to raise the state's minimum wage and accelerate the timetable for increasing the wage itself.

After years of incrementally raising the minimum wage, the Mario Cuomo Campaign for Economic Justice successfully enacted a statewide minimum wage increase to $ 15, raising the take - home pay of more than 2.3 million New Yorkers.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says lawmakers in Albany followed the lead of city government when they passed a statewide minimum wage increase last year.

The governor identified other issues as priorities for being included within the budget, including increasing the minimum wage to $ 10.50 statewide and to $ 11.50 in New York City, a series of tax cuts, and a set of economic and infrastructural revitalization proposals aimed at upstate New York.

Cuomo originally proposed a $ 15 minimum wage statewide, but Republicans were able to limit that to $ 12.50 in areas north of Westchester County (subject to an index that could hike rates higher), push out the phase - in on Long Island, win a promise from the governor not to convene any wage boards for the next five years and limit increases for tipped workers.

The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Fiscal Policy Institute and the Human Services Council are leading a robust statewide coalition of nonprofit providers to call for Governor Cuomo to: Raise the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour for all workers in New York State, including human services workers AND Amend government human services contracts to fund the wage increase.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Dec. 31 announced the second increase toward a statewide $ 15 per hour minimum wage and the launch of what he says is the «nation's strongest» paid family leave policy.

ALBANY — State officials will increase the minimum wage for employees of the State University of New York to $ 15, part of a larger push by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to increase the hourly rate for workers statewide.

He embraced a call to increase the minimum wage and, earlier this year, signed a budget that set a $ 15 hourly rate in New York City as well as a statewide system of employee - funded paid leave.