Sentences with phrase «paid council workers»

She has represented workers from all walks of life, from City traders and elite professionals through to low - paid council workers bringing multiple union - backed claims and a victim of human trafficking held in domestic servitude.

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«As older people leave the workforce, the city has been privatizing those jobs instead of bringing people back in to pay into the fund,» said Ed McNeil, special assistant to the president of Michigan AFSCME Council 25, which represents city workers.

In May 2013, the New York City Council passed legislation requiring employers with 20 or more workers to provide paid sick leave.

Southampton city council has become the first big local authority to ask its workers to take a pay cut or lose their jobs, triggering a row with unions.

The Business Council and wall street tycoons who paid almost $ 10 million of own money in the anti-state worker campaign last year certainly have their own interests in mind by bankrolling Cuomo and his ideas.

A coalition of diverse organizations in New York City has banded together to escalate the conversation regarding paid sick days for workers, with an emphasis on getting the NY City Council to pass legislation mandating paid sick days.

This event is sponsored by the New York City Central Labor Council, the New York State AFL - CIO, the AFL - CIO, Organizing 2.0, the Consortium for Worker Education and the New York Paid Leave Coalition.

Whatever program comes next to spur affordable housing in 421a's wake, Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council, said he'd keep pushing for better pay for construction workers.

Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.

He was a Director of the Child Poverty Action Group 1969 — 79, and of the Low Pay Unit (a body that campaigned to ensure wages councils protected the rights of workers in certain industries) during 1974 — 80.

New York City employers would need to grant paid time off to workers who claim to be victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse or other «family offense matters,» according to legislation passed by the NYC Council.

«The Revised 421 - a Law was conditioned on the Real Estate Board of New York («REBNY») and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York («Construction Trades») reaching an agreement regarding the minimum wages to be paid to construction workers,» the group's letter read.

Across Midtown, the smallest of of the Big Apple's businesses say they're getting ready for the City Council's proposed paid - sick - leave bill, which, according to a compromise announced by Council Speaker Christine Quinn last Thursday, would require companies of 15 or more employees to provide five paid sick days for each full - time worker by October 2015.

«This is a great day for workers statewide and I applaud the Hotel Trades Council and Resorts World for negotiating a deal that both creates and retains good paying jobs here in New York,» said IDC Leader Jeff Klein.

The manifesto promises to continue the freeze of council tax, deliver free nursery hours for children, pay the living wage to council workers and keep free bus passes.

The contributions from labor come only three days after the Hotel Trades Council struck an agreement with Resorts World New York in Queens that will great increase the minimum pay for workers in the short and near term following a ruling by an independent arbitrator.

All efforts to get a copy of the petition proved abortive as at the time of filing this report but a dependable source who wants to remain anonymous said the petitioner wrote the petition that it will be unjustifiable for the Governing Council to pay for the 12 months salaries the workers of the institution are allegedly claiming since they were on strike for about 9 months, saying the petitioner allegedly called on the two owner states to invoke no work no pay rule on the workers of the institution.

A Labour government will mean more workers paid a living wage, (as many enlightened employers and, I'm proud to say, increasing numbers of Labour councils, are already doing)- offering temporary tax breaks to employers that commit to paying it, and requiring transparency of large companies, so employees, consumers and campaigners can hold them to account.

Later today, care workers will stage a silent protest outside county council offices in Dorchester over plans that could see their pay cut.

Brian McMahon, with the New York State Economic Development Council, a pro business and pro fracking group, believes that heritage tourism and the gas drilling industry can co exist, and he says fracking industry related jobs will pay workers a much higher wage and improve the overall health of the economy.

A coalition of advocacy groups led by the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and the Human Services Council are leading an effort to have state - funded nonprofits pay workers at least $ 15 / hour.

The council passed a bill that would require employers give paid time off to workers who make domestic abuse claims.

New York City employers would need to grant paid time off to workers who claim to be victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse or other «family offense matters,» according to legislation passed Tuesday by the City Council.

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.

That is a massive drop I could understand maybe 20 or 30 %, but that is ridiculous That will sure lower morale The average worker is not even on 20k That won, t even pay the council tax, with the gas and electric Then you have food and other bills How do they expect you to live, if you have to wait longer for your state pension?

The Common Council will vote on a new contract for some 240 Blue Collar Workers Union members employees in the three departments that would increase their pay by 2 percent retroactive to April 1, 2017 and another 1 percent for 2018, according to the council's agenda for Thursday's mCouncil will vote on a new contract for some 240 Blue Collar Workers Union members employees in the three departments that would increase their pay by 2 percent retroactive to April 1, 2017 and another 1 percent for 2018, according to the council's agenda for Thursday's mcouncil's agenda for Thursday's meeting.

The new legislation, being introduced to the Council by the mayor himself, will force businesses with five or more employees to provide workers, both full and part - time, with up to five paid sick days a year.

CITY HALL — The City Council faced off on controversial legislation Tuesday that would force developers who receive big city grants to pay their workers a so - called «living wage.»

Linn put the pricetag on paid parental leave for all union workers at $ 250 million, according to Council Education Committee Hearing chair Mark Treyger — a former teacher advocating for the UFT to get paid parental leave.

It is our failures in social policy, to provide council housing, to protect workers» (and trade union) rights, and to do enough to combat low pay and job insecurity that are the root cause of public concern about immigration.

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.

As part of the deal, Quinn also announced that she and the council would urge the city's Economic Development Corporation to begin a «pilot program» that would make certain development projects open only to developers who agreed that their tenants would also pay their workers the higher wage.

But the project crashed to a halt in 2010 when the City Council mandated that workers be paid more than the minimum wage.

CITY HALL — Nearly 100 clergy members marched silently to the City Council chambers Wednesday to demand that officials pass a bill that would force developers who get city cash to pay workers a so - called «living 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.

MANHATTAN — A bill proposing compulsory paid sick days for workers may be shot down by City Council, the New York Post reported Thursday.

Council staffers estimated the increase would boost non-unionized workers» pay by about 35 to 45 percent — with cleaners» pay jumping from about $ 19 an hour to $ 24.75, and security guards» wages increasing from $ 10 an hour to $ 12.80.

Teachers, firefighters and council workers joined the strike, which follows disputes with the government over pay, pensions and cuts.

Extending New Yorkers» Legal Right to Sick Leave: 3,400,000 private and nonprofit sector workers have access to paid sick leave thanks to an expansion created in partnership with the Council and the Mayor's robust education campaign.

«The squeeze on finances from Westminster means that councils are operating within a financial straitjacket, but penalising some of the lowest paid workers in society is quite simply the wrong decision.

An employment tribunal in Birmingham found in favour of thousands of female council workers who complained of being excluded from bonuses worth up to 160 % of their basic pay.

According to a report from the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Council on Compensation Insurance, private insurance companies in Maryland paid out more than $ 502 million in workers» compensation benefits in 2013.

In May 2013, the New York City Council passed legislation requiring employers with 20 or more workers to provide paid sick leave.