Sentences with phrase «than minimum wage as»

For now I'm putting in my dues at what works out to much less than minimum wage as I can not see doing anything else in life.

With the tip credit, restaurants in New York state are allowed to pay tipped workers less than minimum wage as long as their tips make up for those smaller wages.

Environment Secretary Owen Paterson caused a furore after it was revealed that he had proposed a plan to make pensioners pick crops for less than the minimum wage as a way of cutting eastern European immigration.

Not exact matches

«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.

Puzder named ethanol regulation, which has resulted in higher beef costs, a rising minimum wage and higher labor costs due to Obamacare as three obstacles that make doing business in the U.S. more difficult than in the past.

Numerous cities, such as Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle also have minimum wages higher than either their state or federal wage floors.

CAMBODIA: Riot police watched carefully as more than 1,000 garment workers defied a government ban on marching to deliver a petition to the National Assembly in Phnom Penh, demanding a higher minimum wage and more freedom of assembly.

The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

While some startups, such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.

Numerous cities, such as Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle, have minimum wages higher than either their state or federal wage floors.

Some are, as five states, including Mississippi and Louisiana, have no official minimum wage, and two more, Georgia and Wyoming, have a minimum wage of $ 5.15, or about $ 10 less an hour than full - time employees would need to make to be able to afford a two - bedroom.

(A handful of states, including Alabama, Arkansas and Minnesota, mandate even less than the federal minimum wage, which was established as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and contained exemptions for some poorer states.)

Currently, certain kinds of small businesses are exempt from paying employees the federal minimum wage, such as businesses with annual revenues less than $ 500,000, companies that transact within a single state, seasonal businesses, or companies that rely on contract workers.

As employers do not deal with the day - to - day matters of hiring, firing or paying employees, for franchisors to decree a franchise - wide minimum wage may violate the franchise model, making franchisees nothing more than employees.

Today, many flight attendants begin their careers making less than minimum wage — as I did as a flight attendant for Pinnacle Airlines, where I was employed from 2011 to 2013.

Estimates for the effect of minimum wage are generally stronger than those in the U.S., and as Morley Gunderson notes in his 2005 survey of the literature:

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

The official minimum wage in Ecuador is 3,000 sucres per week, which works out to less than 600 sucres per day — or $ 1.50 at the current exchange rate — as the average work week is five and a half days.

The DOL permits restaurant employers to continue to pay the reduced minimum wage to tipped employees while performing such side work so long as it is (1) minimal and no greater than 20 % of the time and (2) related to the performance of tipped duties.

For example, the very small increases in the minimum wage that took effect in eight states on January 1, 2012 as a result of those states» indexing laws will generate an additional $ 366 million in GDP and create the equivalent of more than 3,000 full - time jobs, according to an analysis by the Economic Policy Institute.

That's the industry's seemingly unanimous opinion of the governor's proposal to require that tipped employees — more than 80 percent of whom work in restaurants as servers, bartenders and in similar positions — be paid the state's full minimum wage.

As president of New York State United Teachers — a union whose 600,000 - plus membership is more than 70 percent women — I am proud to be leading a steering committee that is exploring issues of particular importance to women in today's society — issues like the minimum wage, child care and paid family leave.

Cuomo was asked about reports that the minimum wage for upstate might be lower than $ 15, perhaps as low as $ 12.50 or $ 13.

Tip credits allow restaurants to pay employees at a rate less than the minimum wage, as long as their tips make up the difference.

The national minimum wage would apply from 18 rather than 21 as well as apprentices, according to the Guardian newspaper.

Food tip workers were excluded from last year's deal on a pay hike, Cuomo has refused for more than a year to convene a minimum wage board to provide a hike administratively as state lawmakers directed him to do.

The vote comes as a new Siena College poll finds more than three quarters of New Yorkers support raising the minimum wage.

But Stefanik argued that actions speak louder than words, noting that her family's business pays its workers higher than the minimum wage, and that Funiciello does as well.

The Democratic governor's statements came as his negotiating partners in the State Assembly and Senate once again huddled with their rank - and - file colleagues to discuss a spending plan that will total more than $ 140 billion, raise the minimum wage and implement a system of paid family leave.

Rstaurant workers say a boost in their minimum wage will help combat the harassment they face in the workplace as Gov. Andrew Cuomo considers a pay boost for workers who make less than the minimum wage.

The only contentious moment of the evening was when one of the panelists, a successful bar and restaurant owner named Michael Sinensky, argued against the legislation by painting himself, rather than his employees — some of whom make minimum wage — as a victim of the tough economy.

At the time, Cuomo appeared to agree to back the mayor's proposal to allow the city to raise its minimum wage up to 30 percent higher than the state's (as well as other WFP - backed policies and a Democratic takeover of the state Senate).

«And for those working on salaries a bit higher than the current minimum wage, you'll also be better off because there will be a ripple effect as wages rise... that will mean six million people with higher pay.»

He said, Zamfara workers were faced with a number of problems which include failure to pay the salaries of 1,400 recruited by the government more than two years ago, non payment of backlog of pension and gratuities, non payment of minimum wage to primary school teachers and local government employees as well as non payment of annual salary increment.

The Fiscal Policy Institute estimates that increasing New York's minimum wage to $ 9 per hour will generate more than $ 1.1 billion in new economic activity, supporting the creation of more than 10 - thousand new full - time jobs as businesses expand to meet increased consumer demand.

Ultimately, the discussion about the complex system for workers injured on the job has many moving parts and may have been more than all the parties could handle — given other issues they are debating such as minimum wage and family leave.

We joined California as the first to OK a $ 15 minimum wage, more than doubling the federal rate.

A Wage Board could also be used to institute a minimum wage in New York City that is higher than the state minimum, because the law allows a board to raise inadequate pay by locality as well as by occupatWage Board could also be used to institute a minimum wage in New York City that is higher than the state minimum, because the law allows a board to raise inadequate pay by locality as well as by occupatwage in New York City that is higher than the state minimum, because the law allows a board to raise inadequate pay by locality as well as by occupation.

Miliband praises its campaign, despite the fact that in a recent meeting, campaigners surprised Miliband by presenting him with a Spanish woman, who works as a cleaner for the chancellor, but earns barely more than the minimum wage.

More than one million workers across New York will be getting raises this New Year's Eve, as the state minimum wage is set to increase from $ 8 an hour to $ 8.75.

Meanwhile your average yoga teacher is earning less than minimum wage and either has an independent income or sure as hell can't afford to wear Sweaty Betty's # 70 «Chandrasana» leggings.

Rather than fighting for an increase in minimum wage for all, as both the St. Paul and Minneapolis teachers unions have done, for example, Minnesota Comeback talks about «schools as the unit of change,» where the lucky will land — through the wonders of school choice — in the right kind of life - altering spot.

With minimum wage hovering around $ 15 for a good chunk of Canada these days, contributing as a full - time minimum wage worker yields a better rebate than what I saw.

Though tax liens aren't doled out as often as they used to, don't think that means you're able to get away free before hitting the magic $ 10,000 in back taxes owed, because you could still face other collective actions other than tax liens (like wage garnishments, etc.) before reaching the $ 10,000 minimum.

In this mobile performative intervention, Muñoz employed a bike trailer carrying open - source technologies such as Arduino boards and electronic components used in phones and cameras to offer residents in economically disadvantaged areas of Mexico the chance to work for U.S. minimum wage, more than ten times the local minimum wage.

As a young student still doing an undergraduate degree I've had few jobs that paid higher than minimum wage.

These include for example, the right to claim unfair dismissal, to receive statutory sick pay maternity, paternity and parental rights; to be paid the national living or minimum wage depending if they are aged 25 or more; to have working time rights such as not to be forced to work more than 48 hours per week, regular rest breaks and night working health and safety standards; to receive a statement of terms and conditions of employment.

The Deliveroo decision comes hard on the heels of the latest decision against Uber which lost its appeal against an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruling: that its drivers should be classified as workers with rights, such as holiday pay and a minimum wage, rather than being self - employed.

As easy as it is to mock any legitimate law firm that would pay a new lawyer significantly less than the minimum wage, one has to wonder if, assuming everything O'Bryan is saying is true, this job might not be better than working a completely non-law joAs easy as it is to mock any legitimate law firm that would pay a new lawyer significantly less than the minimum wage, one has to wonder if, assuming everything O'Bryan is saying is true, this job might not be better than working a completely non-law joas it is to mock any legitimate law firm that would pay a new lawyer significantly less than the minimum wage, one has to wonder if, assuming everything O'Bryan is saying is true, this job might not be better than working a completely non-law job.

What remains is a prospective juror list disproportionately comprised of white Ontarians able to afford the significant costs of serving in a system that often pays jurors less than minimum wage and does not cover expenses such as travel, parking, meals and child care.