Sentences with phrase «state hourly workers»

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We consider both salaried workers and hourly wage workers, excluding those receiving the federal or state minimum wage, since employers can not legally reduce their pay.

DiNapoli said his office also has questions about the timing of the governor's plan to raise the hourly minimum wage of state workers $ 15 an hour in order to set an example for his push for a statewide hike to that level.

When an hourly state worker is shown to have claimed a few extra hours of payment they are removed from their position and forced to make restitution.

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.

Through a gradual phase - in, state university workers would realize a $ 15 hourly wage by 2018 in New York City and by 2021 in the rest of the state.

The broad - based move follows recent efforts to increase wages in particular industries — last year, Cuomo leveraged a state wage board to boost hourly pay for fast - food workers, and used executive action to do the same for an estimated 10,000 state workers.

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that the governor's latest wage board is poised to recommend hiking the hourly pay of New York's fast food workers all the way to $ 15, and the state's Labor Commissioner is expected to sign off on that recommendation.

A better tool to target help for poor working people, they say, is the income tax credit that can boost hourly income for workers to more than $ 10 an hour, according to Russell Sykes, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute's Empire Center for New York State Policy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's second wage board, charged with considering an hourly pay increase for workers in the state's fast food industry, holds its first public hearing in Buffalo today.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo — joined by Vice President Biden — is expected to push today for a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage for all workers statewide after the acting state labor commissioner gives final approval to a recommendation raising hourly pay for fast food workers to that amount.

Earlier this week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said he was gradually increasing the minimum hourly wage to $ 15 for tens of thousands of state university workers.

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.

The governor convened a wage board that eventually led the state's Department of Labor to increase the minimum hourly rate for fast food workers, arguing that the industry should be singled out because many of its employees also receive public assistance.

Cuomo announced State University of New York Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and Chairman Carl McCall had hiked the minimum hourly wage for 28,000 State University of New York workers.

In a letter to Cuomo and legislative leaders, the New York State Restaurant Association said its members will struggle to cope with the already approved increase in the hourly wage for tipped workers that takes effect Thursday and will not be able to afford any further hikes.

If parents were to pay child care workers their average hourly rate in the United States — $ 10.72 — for every excess day and hour that schools are closed while they are at work, they would owe $ 6,600 annually.

Toyota is now stuck with a plant with high UAW wages for its hourly workers, while its competitors open plants in Southern states with much lower wages.

The hourly wage of these healthcare workers averaged about $ 15.17, compared with the average hourly wage of $ 16.70 for all dental assistants working in the United States.

Description / Position Overview ** This is a year round hourly (at - will) position with benefits limited to those required by applicable state and federal laws, which include Worker's Compensation...

Part - time jobs in the United States usually pay low hourly wages and tend not to offer crucial benefits such as health insurance: only 19 percent of part - time workers have access to medical care benefits.