Sentences with phrase «than the state minimum in»

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The actual state of knowledge of the impact that the minimum wage has on employment in North America, and especially in Québec, leads to the conclusion that a minimum wage that is greater than 50 % of the average wage is harmful to small wage earners and that a minimum wage that is less than 45 % has very little risk for this group of workers.

Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below poverty level.

Although some states have set higher benchmarks than federal law requires, minimum wage in the US is $ 7.25 an hour.

With cities like Seattle raising minimum wage significantly higher than their state's mandate ($ 15 versus $ 9.32 per hour, in Seattle and Washington), minimum wage gaps» effect on competition and employment is becoming an issue across the country.

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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.

This is much higher than the minimum requirements — Prosper only requires a minimum credit score of 640 and at least $ 1 in stated annual income (other requirements apply).

maybe you don't understand that Wenger's words are simply an attempt to recover some of the market value that was lost due to the way they have mishandled his contract negotiations, which means that everyone, once again, knows that we have little to no leverage when it comes to negotiating a transfer... much like we did with RVP, when we sold the EPL trophy to ManU for less than $ 25 million... any reputable team with a sporting director would never have allowed this situation to occur again and if they had heads would roll... if handled correctly the worst case scenario would have seen us get a minimum of $ 65 million for a player of his ilk in the present economic climate and we could have used those funds to purchase the best available striker in the early days of the transfer window... just imagine what outsiders must think about the state of our team if all you did was read the headlines... sadly, things might just might be worse than they think

The safety advantage of a booster seat lasts longer than most parents think: Your child should stay in a booster seat until she's at least 4 feet 9 inches tall and at least 8 years old, which may be different than what your state's law suggests as a minimum.

2008 FRAC, state officials, elderly advocates, and other anti-hunger allies secure more than $ 10 billion in 10 - year added funding in the 2008 Farm Bill for food stamps (now renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP), including the first boost in the program's minimum benefit in more than 30 years.

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday shrugged off the call from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for an even either minimum wage increase than what is proposed in the state budget, saying it's up to the state Legislature to vote on the issue, not the mayor.

One year after launching a task force to look into abusive work conditions in nail salons throughout the state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has ordered the payment of $ 2 million to hundreds of workers who have been denied overtime and paid less than minimum wage.

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.

Lawmakers created a different schedule for increasing the state's minimum wage for all workers in Upstate New York than Cuomo's wage board used last year when it ordered that the minimum wage for fast food workers be gradually increased until it reaches $ 15 an hour on July 1, 2021.

When the state's minimum wage rises to $ 11 an hour from $ 9 on Dec. 31, workers at New York City businesses with more than 10 employees will see the largest percentage minimum - wage increase in 60 years.

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.

Tipped wage workers earn less than the state's current minimum wage, which is set to increase to $ 12 from $ 11 in New York City at the end of the year.

Governor Cuomo has been spending more time on the road than at the State Capitol in recent weeks, on an election style campaign to promote his ideas, including a $ 15 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.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's been spending more time on the road than at the State Capitol in recent weeks, on an election style campaign to promote his ideas, including a $ 15 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.

«Once MMA is legalized in New York and properly regulated by the State Athletic Commission, UFC plans to hold a minimum of 4 events per year for the next three years, with more than half of those events taking place in cities across upstate New York.»

Amid the debate on raising the state minimum wage, the labor - backed Fiscal Policy Institute released an analysis that contends business profits per worker increased much more than labor compensation in the state between 2001 and 2013.

At 9 a.m., Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney meets with Hudson Valley workers who earn less than $ 15 an hour and want an increase in the state minimum wage, Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation, 15 Stone Castle Rd., Rock Tavern.

«You may not know Jerry Zandstra, but all of you have a «Jerry Zandstra» in your state: someone who decides, out of the blue, to seek statewide office; pursues that office through less than honorable tactics; fails to collect the minimum number of signatures to even be placed on the ballot; and then blames the State Party and its chairman for his failures,» Anuzis wrote in his respstate: someone who decides, out of the blue, to seek statewide office; pursues that office through less than honorable tactics; fails to collect the minimum number of signatures to even be placed on the ballot; and then blames the State Party and its chairman for his failures,» Anuzis wrote in his respState Party and its chairman for his failures,» Anuzis wrote in his response.

Cuomo proposes that since the cost of living is higher in New York City than elsewhere in the state, the city have its own minimum wage: $ 11.50, compared to $ 10.50 elsewhere in the state.

The draft bill would also amend the state's education law, requiring that any school in which more than 25 percent of students live on campus must set aside a minimum of 50 beds — or 10 percent of total beds, whichever is less — for substance abuse free living.

Hawkins supports raising the state minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, indexed to increases in worker productivity, and would crack down on the epidemic of wage theft in the state Gov. Andrew Cuomo has refused more than a year to convene a minimum wage board to provide a wage hike to tip workers despite this being part of the wage agreement last year with the legislature.

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.

On fiscal matters, Cuomo has agreed with the GOP more than with Assembly Democrats, who have unsuccessfully pressed for items like an increase in the state's minimum wage.

In New York City, Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk Counties, the minimum wage would be higher than the rest of the state, at $ 12.50 at the end of 2016 and $ 15.00 two years later.

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.

The pledge unanimously passed and signed by the Town Board at its April 11 meeting went on to ask «the New York State Legislature to commit to these same clean energy goals, which would represent a 20 percent increase over the current New York State Energy Plan targets» and to urge «Governor Cuomo to adopt a statewide minimum energy efficiency target of three percent per year of annual energy savings for New York's utilities as part of his comprehensive energy efficiency program, to be announced on Earth Day 2018, and further urges that this program be implemented through a centralized planning process rather than in separate utility rate cases.»

E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a business - backed think tank, testified that there was no other state pushing for an increase so large, and said that the minimum hourly rate would climb from $ 9 to $ 15 in six years — a faster rate than previous hikes.

Legal experts said if the story is true, than Weiner could be exposed to a slew of state and federal charges — including one that carries a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison.

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.

Puerto Rico has far lower wages generally than any other part of the United States and, in the Krueger Report analysis, that $ 7.25 minimum wage destructively distorts the Puerto Rican labor market.

In a speech to more than 800 at the county Democratic committee's fall dinner at the Chateau Briand, Cuomo addressed a range of topics, from gun control to increasing the state's minimum wage to presidential politics.

Low - wage workers would have more money in their pockets if the state rolled back fees on cell phones and gasoline rather than raising the minimum wage, he says.

The current state law says that towns, under the state's so - called «minimum budget requirement,» can not spend less money on public education than was spent during the previous year — unless special circumstances such as a sudden drop in enrollment or other problems.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been spending more time on the road than at the State Capitol in recent weeks, on an election style campaign to promote his ideas, including a $ 15 an hour minimum wage.

Taking a step further than his predecessors, Cuomo has wedged policy proposals — including an increase in the minimum wage last year — into the Article VII bills that detail state spending.

New York City Mayor Bill deBlasio first proposed the idea of allowing individual cities in New York to set their own minimum wage higher than the state's current $ 8 an hour.

This year for instance, Governor Cuomo and lawmakers included a phased in hike of the state's minimum wage in the spending plan, rather than vote on the measure on it's own merits, Mahoney said.

According to the broadband fund announcement from Cuomo's office, despite the state's investment of $ 70 million in broadband upgrades — touted in the release as higher than any other state's — 1.1 million New Yorkers still can't purchase internet service that meets the state's minimum requirement of at least 6.5 Mbps in download speed.

Nader spoke in favor of raising the minimum wage and the need for the State to hold on to, rather than rebate, the stock transfer tax.

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 occupation.

«We have had record progress in this state: $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave, more money for education than ever before, best breast cancer program in the nation, best heroin program in the nation.