Sentences with phrase «of wage board»

Members of the Wage Board will be: Heather C. Briccetti, President and CEO of the Business Council; Peter Ward, President of the New York Hotel Trade Council; and Timothy Grippen, Retired Broome County Executive.

We opposed Cuomo's use of a wage board to raise the minimum wage for fast - food workers.

I give the governor the benefit of the doubt that the actions of his wage board were not simply an isolated political stunt.

The NYS Restaurant Association also came out swinging at the governor within minutes of the wage board's decision.

Smith, along with others testified at the final hearing of the wage board.

Fast - food workers and supporters gathered on Wednesday in Manhattan to watch a live video of the wage board's decision.

Under the rules of the wage board, Cuomo does not need permission from the legislature to increase the wages for tipped workers.

Republican lawmakers have been critical of Gov. Andrew Cuomo for raising the minimum wage through his executive power, including the use of a wage board within the Department of Labor to increase the wage to $ 15 over the next several years for fast - food workers.

Kathy Hochul speaks during a rally before a meeting of the wage board in New York.

Around the Capitol, reporters last night took to referring to the minimum wage deal as «Frankenwage» because it was a serious of policies all jammed awkwardly together, and also for a while there, simply refused to rise up and live, no matter how much gubernatorial energy (cajoling to outright threats of wage boards or loss of a pay raise, according to several lawmakers) was pumped into it.

Not exact matches

Xerox's CEO and most of its board are heading for the exit to settle a suit waged by Carl Icahn and fellow shareholder Darwin Deason.

«Major tax increases or policy changes such as big hikes in the minimum wage will probably do more harm than good,» says Dahlby of the sort of programs necessary to satisfy vocal public - health boards.

Starboard Value, the activist firm waging a proxy fight against consumer giant Newell Brands, on Monday put forward the names of the 10 executives with whom it wants to replace the Newell board.

She says she understands the need for employees to get a decent wage, but estimates that an across - the - board increase of that size would cost the company about $ 40,000 annually.

Procter & Gamble (pg) waged a number of battles last year with activist investor Nelson Peltz, who succeeded in gaining a board seat after months of fighting.

«If you are going to do a wage increase in any state, it should be across the board,» says David Sutz, a franchise owner of four Burger King restaurants in New York, which he's operated since the 1980s.

Pershing Square Capital Management accused the railway of being poorly managed and waged a months - long campaign to replace much the board and Green, who was replaced by former CN chief executive Hunter Harrison in June.

P&G is in the crosshairs of activist investor Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management, which — with its roughly $ 3 billion stake in the consumer goods giant — is waging the biggest proxy fight in history for a seat on its board.

President Barack Obama encouraged an across - the - board raise that would lift the federal hourly minimum from $ 7.25 today to $ 10.10 by 2016 in his recent State of the Union address, and 13 states raised their minimum wage on January 1.

In Columbus, despite across the board wage decreases, overall wages grew due to a large influx of knowledge workers.

«Despite the injunction, we made the conscious decision to raise pay across the board to exceed the threshold for some of our managers,» Adam Shapiro, another Shake Shack spokesperson, wrote in an email, adding that managers already earning above that level were given raises as well, to avoid so - called wage compression.

Sanders said the bill would empower an «unelected and undemocratic oversight board» and criticized the legislation for allowing the governor of Puerto Rico to cut the minimum wage temporarily for some younger workers.

@ Kat & Quid The hunderds, maybe thousands, of priests housekeepers who have been servicing the lads for room and board and minimum wage for decades and may want to gain marital staus and rights.

It's not any one factor that concerns operators but a variety of them, including minimum wage increases, the impact of the Affordable Care Act, recent National Labor Relations Board rulings on the franchise model and much more.

No manager should have that say, it can lead to poor wage structure and a waste of funds, I don't care what manager we get next... Wages should be a board thing with input from manager.

The mention of a 270k offer is probably leaked by an arsenal club member to pacify the fans when he leaves, Wenger «well I tried my best to keep him» Can't see us smashing our maximum wage limit by that much, which member of the board would sign off on that?

The board have made it very clear that they won't get rid of him, so where is the incentive for him outside of a bumper wage packet.

At the same time we have a report in The Guardian revealing that Alexis Sanchez has had to use an apparently huge offer to transfer to another club to sharpen the minds of the Arsenal board into accepting his own wage demands of around # 250,000 a week.

The competition at the top of the league is fierce, it's waged on the pitch, in the board room, and in the transfer market.

He believes that United are ready to capitalise on Neymar's fear of never being the «king» of Barcelona by shattering the Premier League's transfer and wage records to bring him on board.

this complaining about wenger gets nausiating, i know these type of fans will want the next manager out, then the next... everyone is a Klopp fan but no one want to mention his 16 th place in the relagation zone, our team is competitive, yr after yr, our wage structure, set by the board is lower than the oil rich rivals who can buy who ever they want, we do alot with less, and yet find a way, I do nt agree w every move of wenger, but i do nt want to support a classless dildo like jose either

We all know he's waiting for the team to win 2 games in a row, or atleast beat Man City, before he announces his new contract lol we all know about the team wage ceiling but it's pathetic that AW and the board are all a bunch of Yes Men!

If we can get a manager to come in and force the board in investing more on players, which includes modifying the wage bill, then perhaps the club can see a change of fortunes.

wenger and board speaks and boast prudence BUT on closer investigation its the total opposite: wengers wages, and the general wage bill of the club is not in compliance with what the club promotes.

Tony has been extremely consistent in saying that Arsenal has flaws (see living wage discussion) but his main point today is that there can be no conceivable reason to keep any of this secret... if it is above board.

In New York, Cuomo used the power of a state wage board at the Department of Labor to increase the wage for fast - food workers to $ 15 over the next several years.

In the letter, Laundry, Distribution and Food Service Joint Board Workers United / SEIU Manager Wilfredo Larancuent lays blame at Flanagan and Senate Republicans for trying to cushion the impact of the $ 15 minimum wage on businesses.

If this hadn't passed, Cuomo would have used his executive powers of control over the wage board and done it anyway like he did for fast food workers.

A lawyer for the state's department of labor, Pico Ben - Amotz, said the wage order it issued this summer — which followed recommendations of a three - member board convened by Gov. Andrew Cuomo — would eventually impose an hourly wage rate of $ 15 on employees of any fast food chain with more than 30 locations, be they in New York or elsewhere.

«I have serious concerns for the across the board minimum wage increase as proposed, however, with amendments in consideration of our farms, small businesses, and certain employment situations I might consider it,» said Assemblyman Bill Magee, answering a syracuse.com survey of 14 state legislators in the region.

«The governor threatens to keep doing wage boards for every other sector of the economy,» O'Mara said.

«Such a precedent - setting alteration of NIFA's wage freeze authority would likely open the door for similar statutory modifications to the other presently governing control boards in the state, and curtail the abilities of any new control board that may need to be created in the future,» Cuomo wrote.

Her claim today at the Chicago Tribune editorial board meeting that ISIS is motivated by the words of U.S. lawmakers, rather than a deep ideological commitment to waging war on the West to expand their caliphate, shows a shocking lack of understanding of the jihadists» true motivations.»

Empaneling a wage board allows Cuomo to circumvent the need for legislative approval — a maneuver that AG Eric Schneiderman, who has been pursuing cases of wage theft in the fast food industry since 2013, publicly called on the governor to pursue in a Daily News OpEd last month.

State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - LI) is pushing for elimination of Cuomo's wage board, which has the power to set salaries for certain industries, in return for his chamber's approval of the plan that the governor has dubbed «Fight for $ 15» by 2021.

The ad by the Real Estate Board of New York is, in part, a response to an ad from construction trade unions, who say a prevailing wage is about fairness.

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«The technical answer is it's up to the discretion of the commissioner of labor who set the wage board in the first place.

Brown is the sole upstate resident on the board, which was convened by the state Department of Labor at the behest of Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this year to review and recommend any increases in the wage for the fast - food industry.

The latest executive actions have bolstered Cuomo's support among engaged liberal advocacy groups, ranging from LGBT organizations thrilled with his plan to write regulations to protect transgender New Yorkers to labor groups who have pushed him for years to take action on the minimum wage through the previously little - known power of the Department of Labor wage board.