Sentences with phrase «wage hike as»

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who agreed to the phase - in of the minimum wage hike as part of the current state budget, now wants the increase to happen even faster.

Asked by a reporter if the Senate Republicans are resigned to agreeing to some sort of a minimum wage hike as part of the budget, Flanagan balked at the word resigned.

And at the same time, Hochul defended the wage hike as well as the approval of paid family leave, saying those are measures improving New Yorkers» lives.

The union's targeting of Miner - who spoke at a Fight for $ 15 rally in February at a Syracuse church - shows the no - holds - barred fight going on over the proposed minimum wage hike as the state's top political leaders are negotiating whether it will be included in the state budget.

Lawmakers have plenty to work on in the next few weeks leading up to the start of the state's fiscal year, including whether to pass a minimum wage hike as part of the state budget.

Cuomo, a Democrat, embraced the wage hike as he strengthens ties with the institutions in his progressive base after a lackluster re-election effort.

Felder ended up casting the lone «no» vote on the ELFA (education, labor and family assistance) budget bill, which included the minimum wage hike as well as key some education aid.

Mr. Cuomo angered the left with his coziness to the state's business communities and influential Republicans, all of whom deride minimum wage hikes as anti-business.

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«Major tax increases or policy changes such as big hikes in the minimum wage will probably do more harm than good,» says Dahlby of the sort of programs necessary to satisfy vocal public - health boards.

As U.S. fast - food workers continue to strike over wages, concerns build about what a wage hike might do to franchise owners and consumers.

Or they could have no wage hike and play for a pool that was twice as big.

In his job as an activist at the Center for Popular Democracy, Barkan led a successful effort to get Fed officials thinking more about low - income Americans as they conduct monetary policy, often arguing against interest rate hikes in the face of high underemployment and weak wage growth.

Foxconn, meanwhile, has responded to the issue by hiking employee pay by 30 %, which the CEOs see as both an appropriate response to the company's mistreatment of its workers, and a sign of further wage pressures in China.

La Fleche also said the hike in Ontario's minimum wage to $ 14 an hour in January had an impact on Metro's results, although it controlled expenses as much as possible to offset the impact.

yields will hit the highs on close end of the day... equity markets setting up to be slammed tomorrow maybe but today they have run over weak shorts in the face of rates... the federal reserve see's this and again will wonder if they are behind on hikes, strong data, major expansion in credit, lack of wage growth rising bond yields and ballooning debt... rates will go much higher and equities will have revelations as to what that means for valuations

-- Similarly exploited immigrant labor without labor rights (all temporary and dual purpose immigrants), employer sponsorship being the key to suppressing wages (plus all of David Card's papers and equations are wrong due to DNWR)-- Fair Labor Standards Act generally doesn't apply to office workers and other positions that corporations tag as professionals and / or managers, despite recent Obama hike of minimum applicable wage.

Buffalo Wings, for instance, implemented price increases on alcohol in the third quarter to help offset hourly wage hikes and other rising costs such as health insurance in states such as California and New York.

Certain forward - looking gauges such as the Philadelphia Fed business outlook survey and the Fed's Beige Book also show signs of higher material costs and potential wage hikes.

With support from the White House for a higher federal minimum wage, as well as two plans from congressional Democrats to hike the federal floor to $ 12 and $ 15 an hour by 2020, expect the wage debate to intensify in 2016 on the presidential campaign trail.

Recent measures such as changes to the Canada Pension Plan, the rollback of planned cuts to Employment Insurance premiums, the introduction of carbon levies and cap - and - trade programs, and significant minimum wage hikes in Ontario and Alberta have a cumulative impact on investment returns and business competitiveness.

The 20 - year - old has reportedly stalled on signing a new contract at Anfield — with his current deal due to expire at the end of next season — as he holds out for a wage hike of # 150,000 a week.

But that was a fight Cuomo won in Albany and DeFran — as he is known around the halls of the Capitol — eventually voted for a budget that included the wage hike.

Cuomo has bristled at implications his progressive bona fides don't stack up and his supporters have pointed to a raft of accomplishments during his time as governor, including the passage of a minimum wage hike that eventually grows to $ 15 in the coming years in the New York City area, paid family leave, a sweeping gun control law, the legalization of same - sex marriage and regulations that bolster the rights of transgender New Yorkers.

Meanwhile, Republicans have increasingly chaffed at budgets that proposed tax hikes or minimum wage increases, issues that are anathema to their base already restive over the SAFE Act, a 2013 gun control package that Cuomo counts as a signature accomplishment.

The wage - hike event doubled as a victory lap for Cuomo and a campaign rally for Clinton ahead of New York's April 19 primary election.

And, as always during budget talks, there's potential for legislative horse trading: Senate Republicans want to remove the Cuomo administration's ability to raise the minimum wage for a specific industry, which it used to approve a major hike for fast - food workers last year.

The governor urged the crowd to «fight the good fight» for the wage hike, as well as a system of paid family leave.

The Republican - led Senate, meanwhile, has shown resistance to a wage hike, as have various business organizations and farm represents that oppose an increase outright.

As Clinton joined Cuomo's wage hike celebration just two weeks before the state's crucial primary election, a spokesman for Sanders chided her for not fully committing to a similar minimum wage for workers across the country.

Clinton joined Gov. Cuomo on Monday at a celebratory rally at the Javits Center as he signed a minimum - wage hike to $ 15 an hour in much of the state.

(Incredibly, as reported in the Daily News, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan offered late in the legislative session to pass a minimum wage hike favored by de Blasio in exchange for the mayor's agreement to drop his opposition to the police and fire disability pension measure.

ALBANY — Republicans are poised to pass a minimum - wage hike in this year's budget as part of a compromise being hashed out with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Assembly.

A range of issues face state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, including a proposed hike in the minimum wage to $ 15 as well as the creation of a 12 - week paid family program.

Wendy's said that self - service ordering kiosks will be made available across its 6,000 - plus restaurants in the second half of the year as minimum wage hikes and a tight labor market push up wages.

Cuomo was endorsed by the party last month, however, after agreeing to help Democrats retake the state Senate and back a host of liberal legislation such as a minimum wage increase as well as local control for future hikes.

Senate Labor Committee Chairman Jack Martins (R - Nassau County) said the Senate remains open to a hike in the minimum wage but stressed it must be considered with other issues, such as improved workforce training.

Silver said in a statement that the wage hike was being included in an amendment to the existing proposal with, so far, no Senate same - as.

After his re-election in 2014, Cuomo reinvented himself as a full - throated economic populist, pushing through a minimum wage hike and a paid family leave program, and unveiling massive infrastructure spending plans and a proposal for free public college tuition — though he has been light on details about funding.

Cuomo touted the reforms done to explored workers laws, the measure he approved for pay card regulations as well as his support for airport workers and the wage hike for tipped workers.

That's two - and - a-half times more than projected when the wage hike passed in 2016, and about 20 percent more than projected as recently as November.

The committee's relative silence comes as Cuomo pushes a minimum wage hike in his budget proposal, a move that the group's various interests have generally opposed in the past.

But he wouldn't rule out passing a wage hike this year as he did last year, when he called the Silver proposal a «job killer.»

Skelos had not been enthused over the initial wage hike to begin with, but today said there should be discussions such as workers compensation and regulatory reform with any minimum wage conversation as well.

The cuts are actually phased in over several years as is the increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 (A Siena College poll released on Monday found voters backed the $ 15 wage hike 65 percent to 33 percent).

The measure is seen as considerably bad optics as lawmakers did not take up a minimum wage increase in this year's budget — a fact that hasn't escape liberal critics who had pushed for the wage hike.

The state Labor Department is downplaying the likelihood that jobs might be lost as the result of a pending wage hike for fast food workers.

Cuomo and legislative leaders announced a «conceptual agreement» to hike the state's minimum wage as part of a larger deal on the new $ 154 billion state budget.

The Utica Observer - Dispatch says the governor's plan to raise the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour «could put a severe dent in many operations and short - circuit the energy they are creating as the upstate region claws its way back to prosperity,» adding: «For that reason alone, Cuomo's wage hike should be rejected.»

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.

The video then notes that a 2015 study by the conservative Empire Center found hiking the minimum wage to $ 15 - an - hour in New York — a 67 percent increase, when fully phased in — would cause a loss of as many as 200,000 jobs.