Sentences with phrase «over the state minimums»

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If he were working at New York state's minimum wage — $ 9 an hour — it would have taken him well over 5 million hours to earn that much.

A large body of law and custom in the United States holds that because employers have far more power over their employees than businesses do over their customers, they must provide them with far greater protections — not least, a minimum wage and overtime pay.

On Wednesday, a panel appointed by the governor recommended that the minimum wage be raised for employees of fast - food chain restaurants throughout the state to $ 15 an hour over the next few years.

In early September, New York State approved a measure to increase the minimum wage for employees of fast - food chain restaurants in the state to $ 15 an hour over the next few yState approved a measure to increase the minimum wage for employees of fast - food chain restaurants in the state to $ 15 an hour over the next few ystate to $ 15 an hour over the next few years.

Over the next two years, several states plan to raise statutory minimum wage rates, adding to the upward pressure on wages.

And he framed the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage — currently $ 7.25 — as a sort - of trickle - up economics.

Hanging over the speech was Silver's push for increasing the state's minimum wage from $ 7.25 to $ 8.50, a move that is opposed by Senate Republicans and one that Cuomo has all but ruled out because of the difficult politics.

New York State has the greatest gap between rich and poor in the United States.And the most rigorous research over the past 15 years, including studies comparing job growth trends in neighboring counties across state lines with different minimum wages, have found that higher minimum wages do not result in job loState has the greatest gap between rich and poor in the United States.And the most rigorous research over the past 15 years, including studies comparing job growth trends in neighboring counties across state lines with different minimum wages, have found that higher minimum wages do not result in job lostate lines with different minimum wages, have found that higher minimum wages do not result in job losses.

DeFrancisco noticeably got under Cuomo's skin during the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15.

Virtually no - one believes in absolute free markets (at a bare minimum, most people agree that courts should enforce a contract signed between 2 individuals or companies), and virtually no - one believes in complete state control of everything - even the USSR and China had significant amounts of private control over collectivised farms and allowed private farming as well for most of their history.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan called the compromise on the state's minimum wage — increasing on different timetables in New York City, the suburbs and upstate over varying phase ins — a far better arrangement than what was initially proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

But the key issue has been the minimum wage in the state Senate, which Democratic lawmakers and Cuomo want to increase to $ 15, phased in over different time periods in different regions of the state.

Republican lawmakers in the Senate continue to express reservations with the proposal to increase the state's minimum wage to $ 15 over several years with different phase in periods for different regions of the state.

As state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo close in on a potential agreement for a $ 15 minimum wage and a 12 - week paid family leave program, the National Federation of Independent Business in raising an alarm over the likely compromise on the measures.

Republican lawmakers in the chamber have for the past several legislative sessions pushed for an ease to regulations in the state, and this year the GOP conference renewing that effort after ultimately backing an increase to the state's minimum wage in the budget, with the floor growing to $ 15 in some parts of the state over the next several years.

A citizen can not claim means - tested benefits without proving habitual residence, they can not marry a non-EEA national without verifying the partnership's legitimacy in the eyes of the state, and they can not bring this spouse into the UK without earning over a minimum income threshold.

For Cuomo, a united Democratic Senate majority is a nightmare scenario: a centrist at heart, he belittled raising the minimum wage before it came back into vogue, ridiculed the idea of hiking taxes on wealthy people, and still won't comply with a ten - year - old court ruling to fork over state cash to underfunded city public schools.

In his latest lawsuit against the Trump administration, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is suing over a minimum one - year delay by the EPA in enacting tougher clean air standards pertaining to smog.

Legislators also wrangled over a state plan to raise the minimum wage in some fast food restaurants and over a demand that Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz meet with legislators about the problems in Child Protective Services.

The newly adopted state budget raises the minimum wage over three years from $ 7.25 to $ 9 an hour.

As negotiations over New York State's budget draw to a close, Governor Cuomo and the legislature are trying to hammer out an agreement to raise the state's minimum wage, which is currently just $ 8.75 and is currently scheduled to top out at $ 9.00 at the end of this State's budget draw to a close, Governor Cuomo and the legislature are trying to hammer out an agreement to raise the state's minimum wage, which is currently just $ 8.75 and is currently scheduled to top out at $ 9.00 at the end of this state's minimum wage, which is currently just $ 8.75 and is currently scheduled to top out at $ 9.00 at the end of this year.

Lawmakers from both parties in the Assembly and Senate have chafed in recent years over Gov. Andrew Cuomo exercising this power over policy in the spending plan, be it pushing through new criteria for teacher evaluations or an increase in the minimum wage the Legislature contends has little to do with the state's overall finances.

The state Business Council on Friday released new concerns over the proposed increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 as well as the proposal for a 12 - week paid family leave program.

And, as the party's state director Bill Lipton writes in a fundraising email, the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 is now at the forefront of the national political dicussion.

Silver was the first to call for an increase in the state's minimum wage over one year ago.

The growing divide is crystallized in the debate over raising the state's minimum wage.

The state's Hospital Association testified during budget hearings that the $ 15 minimum wage would cost the health care industry $ 2.8 billion, the state's Business Council estimates total cost would be over $ 15 billion.

The middle ground is a particularly familiar place for Governor Andrew Cuomo - and it is where he has put himself in the debate over increasing the state's minimum wage.

New York's governor is raising the minimum wage for about 10,000 state workers to $ 15 an hour over the next six years.

The increased hourly wage for fast - food workers represents a raise of more than 70 percent over the state's current minimum wage of $ 8.75 per hour.

New York joins more than a dozen states that have hiked the minimum wage over the last year or so.

Cuomo has already begun a piecemeal attempt to increase the minimum wage through executive actions to phase in an increase for state workers and fast food workers to $ 15 an hour over the next several years.

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.

Since well before the State of the State address in January when Cuomo made the $ 15 minimum wage and an exceedingly generous paid family leave centerpieces of his forthcoming agenda, I've been getting calls and letters from small - business men and women across upstate anguishing over what this will mean for their thin - margin enterprises.

The Quinnipiac poll found that 78 % of those surveyed think the state's minimum wage should be higher than the current $ 7.25 an hour, with more than half saying it should be increased to over $ 8.50 cents an hour.

Glenwood has spent a minimum of $ 3.6 million on state politicians and political action committees that support them over the last four years.

If donations cross over to state candidates, that should, at minimum, be made transparent.

The union's targeting of Miner - who spoke at a Fight for $ 15 rally in February at a Syracuse church - shows the no - holds - barred fight going on over the proposed minimum wage hike as the state's top political leaders are negotiating whether it will be included in the state budget.

The backing of the wage floor on the federal level comes after New York's state budget in April approved a measure to increase the state's minimum wage in New York City and the suburban counties to $ 15 over the next several years (upstate hits $ 12.50 and is then subject to an economic formula with the goal of eventually hitting $ 15).

The law states that everyone over the age of 25 is entitled to a minimum of # 7.20 per hour with a lower rate for younger workers.

«He has delivered a $ 15 minimum wage for New Yorkers, 12 weeks of paid family leave, a $ 19 minimum wage for over 40,000 New York - area airport workers and championed many other pieces of legislation that have made working families in our state better off.

Cuomo did prevail on one of his marquee proposals in 2016: a plan to raise to the state's minimum wage to $ 15 in stages over several years.

«I've been all over this state talking about this and I think the support for paid family leave and raising the minimum wage is clear,» Cuomo said.

Founded in 1998, Working Families Party has focused on Democrats and this «enabled it to accumulate surprising influence over Democratic officials, yanking them left on economic issues like the minimum wage, which the party was instrumental in helping to raise in New York State, in exchange for its support.»

After being elevated to the Senate co-presidency in the last two - year cycle, Klein was able to have the state's minimum wage increased over a phased - in period.

The cuts are actually phased in over several years as is the increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 (A Siena College poll released on Monday found voters backed the $ 15 wage hike 65 percent to 33 percent).

Cuomo, in the end, was endorsed by the state Business Council, which was disappointed in the governor's successful push this year to increase the state's minimum wage to $ 15 in some parts of New York over the next several years.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state labor leaders on Monday pledged a concerted campaign to boost the state's minimum wage to $ 15 over the coming years by leaning on the state Legislature for the latest hike for low - wage workers in the last several years.

Senate Republicans continue to raise concerns with a $ 15 minimum wage, even as Cuomo says a $ 1 billion income tax cut for joint filers earning $ 300,000 is on the table and the wage increase itself would be phased in over time periods across the state.