Sentences with phrase «than minimum wage doing»

It costs $ 10 to sign up, and most reps sell Avon part - time and make on average less than minimum wage doing it.

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.

And the company pays staffers more than rivals do: Experienced cashiers earn more than $ 40,000, while full - time clerks receive salaries that start above the minimum wage at $ 12 an hour, according to the Globe.

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.

In today's dollars, the current federal minimum wage offers 30 percent less purchasing power than it did in 1968, according to NELP.

It does note that there are «studies» that show «raising the federal minimum wage — which has not changed since 2009 — to just $ 10.10 per hour would pull more than half of the nation's working poor out of poverty.»

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.

This is particularly challenging for low - income families who often do not make more than minimum wage.

Unlike in those other casee, the plaintiffs did receive some compensation, but at less than $ 1 per hour, far far less than minimum wage.

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.

«If you work it out, if I didn't get compensated for expenses, I'd be working for less than minimum wage,» Ms. Berwick said.

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.

Jesus Lives He sure does, cuts my lawn, pulls the weeds and cleans the pool for less than minimum wage, YEE HAW.

Those governments have kept the minimum wage below a living wage, allowed private social care companies to pay less than even the inadequate minimum wage, done almost nothing to enforce the quality of private rental accommodation and nothing to prevent gouging rents.

Hillary Clinton's stance on increasing the federal minimum wage is more realistic and do - able than what's begin sought by her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders.

The negotiations do not appear to be falling apart like they did several times last year, and while legislative leaders may not be completely up on the minimum wage discussions, the knowledge of their members, to a greater degree than before, has been tapped into.

I agree with Diane Abbott that such a cap would «encourage cuts in benefits, rather than long - term strategies to do things to bring the benefits bill down, like housebuilding, like a rise in the minimum wage».

Governor Cuomo and legislators in Albany are considering a plan that would raise the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, but do so faster in New York City than upstate.

If you do anything other than «teach» (i.e. grading, reading student work, etc.) you don't get paid even minimum wage.

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 board was appointed by Cuomo when Republicans in the New York State Senate did not agree to raise the minimum wage any higher than the current phased - in increase, which will bring the minimum wage to $ 9 an hour by the end of this year.

You don't have to like Tony Blair, or what he did to Iraq to concede that he achieved more for ordinary people — increased spending on public services, the minimum wage, a reduction in child poverty, peace in Northern Ireland — than Foot, Kinnock, Miliband or Corbyn combined, by virtue of actually getting elected.

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.

Cuomo delayed announcing the formation of a minimum wage board for more than a year after being directed to do so by the state legislature.

«Nothing would do more to lift New Yorkers out of poverty and move our economy forward than raising the wage... We welcome the Governor's support for a $ 15 minimum wage — and New York City stands ready to help make it a reality,» de Blasio's statement reads.

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.

The Assembly Republicans did better than Senate GOP members who lost points, because, Biryla says, most Republican Senators voted for Governor Cuomo's proposal to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour downstate and $ 13.50 elsewhere.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it's time the state examines whether to do away with the practice of allowing employers to pay tipped workers less than the minimum wage.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says it's time the state examines whether to do away with the practice of allowing employers to pay tipped workers less than the minimum wage.

Cuomo wants to raise the minimum wage to $ 8.75, more than even advocates have called for, saying New York's current rate «doesn't» add up».

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.

Times have changed radically in the last decade... even more so, the past few years — today's author has to be prepared to work their butt off to get his book noticed by the media, the public, you name it; they often are disconnected from the editor who «acquired» the book and the one that does the editing; and advances have shrunk, even disappeared (many authors work for far less than minimum wage).

Minimum wage in Australia is much higher than anywhere in Canada, so servers in this surfer's paradise don't need tips to supplement their income.

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.

We start all new hires at a wage above minimum, but other than writing to our representatives, there isn't a whole lot we can do about this.

It didn't sound like they have a minimum wage, but we were told that only the young kids make less than $ 15.

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

A single person may well be able to get by on minimum wage (if their rent isn't too high and they don't buy good quality groceries or eat out a lot... — If you don't count tuition, I spent less than $ 20k last year and that includes a flight across Canada).

It is a world where jobs pay less than the minimum wage, and sometimes nothing at all; where employers do not pay overtime for 60 - hour weeks, and deny meal breaks that are required by law; where vital health and safety regulations are routinely ignored, even after injuries occur; and where workers are subject to blatant discrimination, and retaliated against for speaking up or trying to organize.

If the harvest is poor or her employer doesn't record berry weights accurately, she often earns less than minimum wage.

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.

However, pharmacists don't exactly make minimum wage, so I'm confident we can have cash on hand by next summer; no later than the end of 2017.

If I do the math, at 0.75 % to the listing rep, this would be less than $ 20k GCI - not even minimum wage for a full time practitioner, especially once all the fees are paid.

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.