He said the Cuomo's administration should revoke
the wage board rulings that set the higher minimum wage for fast food workers.
The National Restaurant Association is suing New York over the 2015
wage board ruling that requires fast food restaurants to pay their employees $ 15 an hour by 2021.
Not exact matches
It's not any one factor that concerns operators but a variety of them, including minimum
wage increases, the impact of the Affordable Care Act, recent National Labor Relations
Board rulings on the franchise model and much more.
Under the
rules of the
wage board, Cuomo does not need permission from the legislature to increase the wages for tipped workers.
Hunger Action filed a petition under Sec. 653 of the Labor Law to begin the process of convening the minimum
wage board but so far the Labor Department has failed to
rule on whether or not the minimum
wage is adequate.
A state appeals court
ruled that Nassau's financial control
board has the authority to suspend contractual pay increases for county employees, and dismissed union challenges to a three - year
wage freeze that ended in 2014.
The recommendations voted on by the
wage board now go to the Governor's Commissioner of Labor, who will publicly post them for a 15 - day comment period, after that, the new
rules for increasing the minimum
wage can go into effect in 45 days.
NIFA Chairman Adam Barsky and other
board members criticized a state bill to loosen
rules on step
wage hikes.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo today applauded his
wage board's
ruling that fast food industry workers should receive $ 15 an hour for their labor — and shrugged off claims from business groups that the new pay floor will result in layoffs.
Ressler is also a founder and former
board chair of Alliance charter schools, which continues to
wage an illegal anti-union campaign against its own educators (read about a judge's recent
ruling against Alliance on page 5).
This special minimum
wage rule is inconsistent with the federal Caregiver Program policies that prohibit employers from charging room and
board to live - in caregivers.