Mr. de Blasio's announcement today follows a flurry of similar policy initiatives that Mr. Cuomo, after his skepticism of the State Legislature, rolled out unilaterally over the last year: first, a $ 15 - an - hour
wage for fast food workers through a special wage board, then the same for state public employees last November, and most recently for SUNY employees Monday — complete with a call for the city to follow.
Not exact matches
Cuomo has already begun a piecemeal attempt to increase the minimum
wage through executive actions to phase in an increase
for state
workers and
fast food workers to $ 15 an hour over the next several years.
As expected, lawyers
for the National Retaurant Association have filed a court challenge to the Cuomo administration's plan to increase the minimum
wage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour
through an administrative order that circumvented the Legislature.
The proposal comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo in recent months has pushed
for a broader minimum
wage increase and
through executive authority hiked the
wage for workers in the
fast -
food industry as well as state and SUNY employees.
Republican lawmakers have been critical of Gov. Andrew Cuomo
for raising the minimum
wage through his executive power, including the use of a
wage board within the Department of Labor to increase the
wage to $ 15 over the next several years
for fast -
food workers.
Last week, that union cheered loudest as Cuomo pushed
through an increase in the minimum
wage for fast -
food workers.
Cuomo, who used his executive powers
through a
wage board to phase in a $ 15 an hour rate
for fast food workers, says next he wants to try to get a similar increase
through the state legislature next year.
Senate Republicans were displeased with Cuomo's raising of the
wage for fast -
food workers to $ 15 an hour
through a Department of Labor
wage board, and have subsequently called
for more legislative input on the issue.
But the $ 15 minimum
wage, as pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year after he set the
wage for fast -
food workers through a Department of Labor board, proved to be an especially bitter pill
for some business groups to swallow.
The governor, after unsuccessfully trying to raise the minimum
wage further
through the legislature, appointed a
wage board, which voted in July to increase the minimum
wage for fast food worker to $ 15 an hour over the next several years.
Cuomo told the Empire State Pride Agenda he plans to bypass the Legislature — as he did in raising the minimum
wage for fast -
food workers — by granting transgender people protections
through a regulatory process he controls.