Sentences with phrase «wage boosts for»

Demonstrations calling for wage boosts for employees at fast - food chains began in late 2012.

Mr Gove's intervention ties in with reports that Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is to demand a wage boost for NHS workers.

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If the Fed were to continue hiking rates based on the current low rate of productivity growth for fear that inflation would accelerate, that would tend to keep productivity growth permanently depressed by preventing wage pressures from pushing businesses to investment in productivity boosting technologies.

Some wage agreements did have a clause which allowed for larger increases should the boost to the CPI be greater than expected.

«This suggests that employment prospects for some workers in higher - wage occupations are boosted by minimum wage increases, consistent with a story in which some jobs are lost to automation, while others are created.

Overall, wage growth for federal and public administrators dwarfs the 30 % economy - wide weekly - wage growth, and shows the civil servants have seen faster boosts than any other industry.»

NOTES BB&T also raised minimum hourly pay rate from $ 12 to $ 15, effective Jan. 1, 2018; Fifth Third Bank also boosted minimum wage to $ 15 per hour for all employees; PNC Financial also will raise minimum pay rate to $ 15 an hour by the end of 2018.

Walmart is boosting the minimum hourly wage for its U.S. employees to $ 11 and dishing out bonuses of up to $ 1,000, crediting President Trump's tax cut for enabling the move.

Walmart is boosting the minimum hourly wage for its U.S. employees to $ 11 and dishing out bonuses of up to $ 1,000.

CaughtOffside understands that the Emirates Stadium side are looking to tie down Wenger to a new three year contract and will back the French manager with a significant transfer war - chest, which will be boosted by the sale of a number of under - performing players with a trimmed squad offering the club the ability to cut their wage bill to make room for new additions.

The Syracuse Republican insisted the conference had to remain united on the minimum wage vote, which was packaged with a boost in school aid and an elimination of education cuts GOP lawmakers had pushed for since last year.

Caution was served by keeping giveaways to a minimum, but the giveaways that were unveiled were almost exclusively focussed on the «compassionate Conservatism» agenda: support for Universal Credit claimants, a small boost to the living wage, bringing forward business rate changes, some extra money for the NHS.

[76] At the conference, Miliband pledged to focus on six national goals for Britain until 2025, including boosting pay, apprenticeships and housing; a mansion tax and levy on tobacco companies to fund # 2.5 billion a year «time to care» fund for the NHS; a commitment to raise the minimum wage to # 8 or more by 2020; and a promise to lower the voting age to 16 ready for elections in 2016.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is using his executive authority to boost the minimum wage for state workers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared in both communities to rally for what he called a «fight for fairness» agenda that includes the leave proposal as well as his attempt to boost the minumum hourly wage to $ 15.

The broad - based move follows recent efforts to increase wages in particular industries — last year, Cuomo leveraged a state wage board to boost hourly pay for fast - food workers, and used executive action to do the same for an estimated 10,000 state workers.

As he continues to roll out top priorities of his State of the State / budget address, Gov. Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed raising New York's minimum wage to $ 10.50 an hour and boosting the baseline for hourly pay in New York City to $ 11.50.

While the MRT did propose a 4 percent cap and cuts, it also put forward a wage floor for home health workers; substantial rollbacks in the governor's proposed cuts to nursing homes and personal care; and a major overhaul of the home care industry that is likely to boost the union's membership over the long term.

Hiking the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour for food - service workers would boost paychecks in the city by $ 1.3 billion a year, a new analysis by NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer found.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state labor leaders on Monday pledged a concerted campaign to boost the state's minimum wage to $ 15 over the coming years by leaning on the state Legislature for the latest hike for low - wage workers in the last several years.

At a rally for increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15, Cuomo said the boost was about «dignity and justice.»

Independent Democratic Conference Leader Jeff Klein is backing legislation that would provide a boost in the minimum wage for home - care attendants to $ 15 by raising the cap on Medicaid.

While Democrats say raising the minimum wage increases purchasing power and boosts sales for all, Republicans have argued minimum wage hikes can prevent small businesses from hiring.

But the way the deal was done — with a promise - busting tax increase to help pay for an election - year middle - class tax rebate, and a minimum - wage boost coupled with a tax cut for small businesses — was a vivid illustration of the genius and the expediency of the Andrew Cuomo method.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo channeled his inner Bernie Sanders — the socialist Democratic US senator from Vermont who's challenging Hillary Clinton for the party's 2016 nod — at a NYC rally where he formally announced he'll convene a wage board to examine boosting the income of fast food workers in New York.

Senate Republicans in their one - house budget resolution have not slammed the door on a minimum wage increase, but instead have called for further analysis of the impact of the proposed $ 15 minimum wage, which would be boosted from $ 9 over the course of several years.

Rstaurant workers say a boost in their minimum wage will help combat the harassment they face in the workplace as Gov. Andrew Cuomo considers a pay boost for workers who make less than the minimum wage.

The living wage bill, which passed later Monday afternoon 45 - to - 5, is expected to boost wages for about 600 workers — far fewer than earlier versions of the bill.

Cuomo also called for raising the minimum wage to $ 15, cutting taxes for small businesses taxes and boosting the environmental protection fund.

Cuomo called for boosting the Upstate economy, expanding casino gaming, and increasing the minimum wage from $ 7.25 - an - hour to $ 8.75 an hour.

He also signaled he'll unveil proposals to boost the state's minimum wage to $ 15 per hour in staggered steps over about six years, address homelessness in New York City, double the money earmarked for environmental protection projects and expand broadband access to the Internet.

The mayor laid out plans to spend $ 115 million to boost the minimum wage to $ 15 for tens of thousands of city workers, and $ 5.4 million to expand FDNY ambulance tours in Upper Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx in an effort to boost response times.

Shadow chancellor Chris Leslie said Mr Osborne should introduce tax breaks for employers that pay the living wage as a way of boosting people's incomes and warned against underestimating the importance of tax credits to families.

Over 200 economists, including seven Nobel Prize winners, voiced support for raising the minimum wage because it will boost the economy for all New Yorkers.

Combine those issues with rising pressures to boost school funding, reform the criminal justice system, address the minimum wage rate and pay for a new Tappan Zee Bridge - well, it's a recipe made for behind - the - scenes deal - making in a Capitol where trading political chits has become an art.

Meanwhile, technological advances - in particular the spread of computers - accelerated the economy's need for skills, once again boosting the wage premium received by more - educated workers (see Figure 2).

However, they did not attempt to account for factors such as differences in employment levels between 2008 and 2019, as well as differences in nominal wages between the two years, including the fact that Alberta will already have a $ 15 minimum wage in place by 2019, so this federal minimum proposal will not directly boost the wages of any workers in that province.

About one - quarter of registered early childhood educators in the province earn less than $ 15 an hour, notes Lyndsay Macdonald of the Association of Early Childhood Educators of Ontario, which supported the recent Fight for $ 15 campaign to boost the minimum wage.

A similar argument could be made for a boost in the minimum wage.