Sentences with phrase «than the minimum wage from»

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In California, where Landry's operates more than 70 restaurants, the minimum wage will increase from $ 8 an hour to $ 9 on July 1.

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.

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.

I am now employed from home and earning more than I was in my minimum - wage retail job.

Tipped employees at restaurants employing less than 500 workers will earn at least a $ 10 minimum cash wage, a 53 cent hike from the current minimum.

hi, there is no body in usa who hired muslims, and from where he got fired, it is hard to breath in usa like muslim, less than minimum wage is fix for muslims, more holy more less pay and more hard work

If a business owner required all female workers to wear religious head scarves, we can tell him he can't; if a business owner claims his religion forbids him from paying workers more than $ 5 an hour, we can nonetheless require him to pay the minimum wage.

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.

The reason, he believes, is that fighting corruption is less important to Cuomo than other initiatives he appears to more readily spend his political capital on, like same - sex marriage and a $ 15 minimum wage — among signature accomplishments that Cuomo highlighted by having dozens of guests who benefitted from the laws.

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.

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.

More than 40 business owners and chamber of commerce executives from New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley announced their support Monday for Governor Andrew Cuomo's push to raise the state minimum wage to $ 10.50.

That's lower than the minimum wage for non-tipped workers, which ranges from $ 9.70 an hour upstate in some industries to $ 12 an hour for fast - food workers in New York City.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Wednesday that they are negotiating possible compromises on the minimum wage issue, which could include a lower minimum wage in Upstate New York than in New York City, excluding farms from the hike, and providing a tax credit to small businesses to help them adjust.

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

Voters also want to raise the minimum wage higher than the governor is proposing, and think he should not exclude minority party leaders, including the only female legislative leader Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, from budget talks.

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.

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.

Voters also want to raise the minimum wage higher than the governor is proposing, and think he should not exclude minority party leaders from budget talks, including the only female legislative leader Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced new compromise legislation on Friday that would require only companies receiving direct subsidies from the city to pay employees the so - called living wage, which is a few dollars more than the minimum wage.

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 bill would force developers who receive subsidies from the City's Economic Development Corporation and Industrial Development Agency to pay their workers at least $ 10 an hour — significantly higher than minimum wage.

More than 60 percent of voters (61 percent) also support raising the federal minimum wage from $ 7.25 to $ 10.10 an hour.

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.

When Nebraskaland decided last year to begin raising its minimum wage to $ 15 from $ 10 an hour, more than half of its 234 employees benefited (the rest were already making more).

We excluded from our analysis people making less than $ 8 / hour — the minimum wage in D.C. is above that, which suggests that these people won't be affected by another hike in the minimum wage.

The recent change in San Francisco minimum wage law will prevent the store from being financially viable no later than July of 2018 (at which point our payroll will have... Read More

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).

In Howey's data, 944 authors out of the 3,439 authors of the almost 7000 Amazon best - sellers (with estimated sales greater than one book per day) were estimated to have earned above federal minimum wage ($ 7.25 * 8 hours = $ 58 / day) from their best - selling books on data collection day.

To survive minimum wage increases, Shelf Awareness reported that booksellers seek to add products with a better profit margin than books: «Books Inc. [in San Francisco] has increased its sales mix from about 2 percent in gifts to around 15 percent currently.

The minimum wage for students under 18 working less than 28 hours a week will increase to $ 10.70 per hour from $ 10.55 at the same time.

So rather than saving the raise, the higher minimum wage might just prevent some people from falling further behind.

In the middle of executing my third ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) commission (which took 106 hours to create, and for I ended up earning not much more than minimum wage), I felt so resentful of the lovely and delightful young couple I was creating the piece for that I came a hair's breath away from never accepting another ketubah commission.

We manage and mentor and train people who are new to real estate — some young, most not — entering into a second, third or fourth career, sometimes going from a minimum or no - wage environment to earning — on average last year — more than $ 100,000 per year.