Sentences with phrase «wage board hearing»

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The wage board, meeting Monday in Albany, has heard dozens of workers say they struggle to pay ordinary living expenses such as rent, utilities and transportation at the current minimum, often with fluctuating and part - time work schedules.

Kink says the wage board has the power to hold hearings and take testimony.

The wage board, appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, has held hearings and will make a decision early next year.

The wage board, appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has held hearings and will make its decision early next year.

The fourth and final hearing was held by a board specially appointed Governor Andrew Cuomo to consider raising the minimum wage for fast food workers in New York.

The New York State Department of Labor gives notice that on Monday, June 15, 2015, the Wage Board will hold a public hearing to receive testimony about an increase in the minimum wagWage Board will hold a public hearing to receive testimony about an increase in the minimum wagewage...

In June, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, the wage board's chairman and a longtime Cuomo ally, said he and his fellow members clearly believed «a substantial» increase was needed to bring fast food workers up the economic ladder — despite persistent opposition from the business community, which often found itself drowned out at public hearings that served more or less as labor rallies.

At 11 a.m., as the governor's wage board holds its third public hearing, workers and advocates will call on the Wage Board to eliminate the sub-minimum wage for the 230,000 tipped workers in New York State, Mahoney State Office Building, Hearing Room Part 6, 65 Court St., Buffwage board holds its third public hearing, workers and advocates will call on the Wage Board to eliminate the sub-minimum wage for the 230,000 tipped workers in New York State, Mahoney State Office Building, Hearing Room Part 6, 65 Court St., Bufboard holds its third public hearing, workers and advocates will call on the Wage Board to eliminate the sub-minimum wage for the 230,000 tipped workers in New York State, Mahoney State Office Building, Hearing Room Part 6, 65 Court St., Bhearing, workers and advocates will call on the Wage Board to eliminate the sub-minimum wage for the 230,000 tipped workers in New York State, Mahoney State Office Building, Hearing Room Part 6, 65 Court St., BuffWage Board to eliminate the sub-minimum wage for the 230,000 tipped workers in New York State, Mahoney State Office Building, Hearing Room Part 6, 65 Court St., BufBoard to eliminate the sub-minimum wage for the 230,000 tipped workers in New York State, Mahoney State Office Building, Hearing Room Part 6, 65 Court St., Buffwage for the 230,000 tipped workers in New York State, Mahoney State Office Building, Hearing Room Part 6, 65 Court St., BHearing Room Part 6, 65 Court St., Buffalo.

The wage board, appointed by Governor Cuomo, has held hearings and will make a decision early next year.

In Albany on Thursday, Republicans in the State Senate plan to hear complaints from business owners and others about the wage board process.

Smith, along with others testified at the final hearing of the wage board.

N.Y. State Sen. Jack Martins, R - Mineola, speaks during a Senate Standing Committee labor hearing on the Fast Food Wage Board in 2015 in Albany, N.Y.

After four public hearings, the wage board recommended a phased - in minimum wage of $ 15 for fast - food workers.

Some had attended previous hearings in adjacent rooms, before a wage board convened by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, that had the feeling of campaign rallies.

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.

At 11 a.m., the Senate standing committee on Labor holds hearing to examine the overall process of the Fast Food Wage Board of 2015, Van Buren Hearing Room A, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, hearing to examine the overall process of the Fast Food Wage Board of 2015, Van Buren Hearing Room A, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, Hearing Room A, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, Albany.

«More people take us as a credible campaign, so they're willing to give us contributions,» Hawkins said by phone, ducking out of a state board that is holding a hearing on whether or not to raise the minimum wage for workers who rely on tips.

The New York State Department of Labor Wage Board held its third public hearing in downtown Buffalo Thursday to determine whether there should be a sub-minimum wage increase for tipped workWage Board held its third public hearing in downtown Buffalo Thursday to determine whether there should be a sub-minimum wage increase for tipped workwage increase for tipped workers.

The fourth and final hearing was held by a board specially appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to consider raising the minimum wage for fast food workers in New York.

«Each hearing that this wage board had really became a labor rally,» said Durant, who said the Governor, and his Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, who spoke at one of the rallies «embraced it».

Inside, dozens of fast food workers were among those who testified at the last hearing held by Cuomo's wage board, which is examining whether to raise the state's minimum wage beyond the current rate of increase to $ 9 an hour by the end of 2015.

The board should hold its two required public hearings on the adequacy of the minimum wage by Labor Day, and make its recommendations soon afterward.

In a related event in Albany on Thursday, a parade of business and restaurant officials and owners testified before the Republican - controlled state Senate Labor Committee hearing on the recent Fast Food Wage Board convened by Cuomo, bashing it as largely one - sided political stunt designed to appease progressive advocates.

A lawsuit has been filed against the Wage Board by the National Restaurant Association and an expedited hearing is expected to be heard in April.

Two board members, Buffalo mayor Byron Brown and SEIU secretary treasurer Mike Fishman, heard testimony from workers, labor leaders, business owners and academics mostly decrying the working and living conditions of minimum wage fast food workers and endorsing economic theories bolstering the case for a substantial increase in the minimum wage.

A wage board convened by the labor department held a public hearing in Syracuse Friday.

Inside, dozens of fast food workers are among the over 170 people who testified at the last hearing held by Cuomo's wage board, which is examining whether to raise the state's minimum wage beyond the current rate of increase to $ 9.00 an hour by the end of 2015.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to hear a challenge by a group of Buffalo, N.Y., school unions to a state fiscal - oversight board's power to set aside labor contracts and impose a wage freeze to help the city and its school district emerge from a budget crisis.