Sentences with phrase «wage hike plans»
This year, Cuomo, re-elected to a second term last year, has been more assertive in his own wage hike plan, which would provide for a $ 11.50 minimum wage in New York City and $ 10.50 wage elsewhere.
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The increase takes effect next month and will cost $ 300 million on top of wage hikes that were already planned.
Premier Kathleen Wynne said Ford's promises to cut corporate taxes and halt a planned minimum wage hike set to take effect next year show he doesn't stand up for the average person, despite what he says.
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.
DiNapoli said his office also has questions about the timing of the governor's plan to raise the hourly minimum wage of state workers $ 15 an hour in order to set an example for his push for a statewide hike to that level.
Cuomo's $ 145 billion budget plan, which he first laid out in January, calls for a gradual hike in the state's minimum wage, which currently sits at $ 9 an hour.
Senators have introduced bills to speed up the next planned wage hike, end the tax credit for businesses that hire teens and allow local governments to set their own rates.
The political prospects of that plan are murky at best — the state legislature controls the city's minimum wage, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed a considerably smaller hike.
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.
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.»
Though he's making a concerted, campaign - style push for increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said he has no plans to hold up the state budget in order to achieve the hike.
Though in the budget, the hike in the minimum wage could wait until after the spending plan is ultimately adopted, giving lawmakers and Cuomo more time to reach a deal.
The Working Families Party, which includes major unions hoping to modify Cuomo's plans for education and a minimum wage hike, issued a statement of support on Friday.
Money is tight: Cuomo is already trying to squeeze more money from the state's Medicaid program to make up for the potentially higher costs of a minimum wage hike on government contractors, and has agreed to pick up $ 485 million for CUNY that he had previously planned to shift to New York City.
Klein's group in the spring forced Senate Republicans to the table to embrace both a minimum wage hike and a phased - in family leave plan — two measures that angered the GOP's traditional business sector backers.
Assembly Democrats back the minimum wage hike, but they have a slightly different plan for paid family leave.
He is proposing a plan to get a minimum wage hike that doesn't require legislative approval.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a labor rally, announcing a plan to get a wage hike to $ 15 an hour for fast - food workers, Thursday, May 7, 2015, in New York.
Focused on delivering an on - time spending plan — which polls earlier this month showed 62 percent of voters wanted the timely budget, stronger ethics laws be damned — the governor and legislators jettisoned plans for a minimum wage hike, the Dream Act and changes to the criminal justice system from the spending plan.
This year for instance, Governor Cuomo and lawmakers included a phased in hike of the state's minimum wage in the spending plan, rather than vote on the measure on it's own merits, Mahoney said.
Advocates for a higher minimum wage in New York plan to rally Monday at the state Capitol, where they say lawmakers also want a pay hike.
An upstate business group is seeking tax cuts for small businesses in the New Year, and opposing Governor Cuomo's plan to phase in a minimum wage hike to $ 15 an hour.
And if the plan doesn't fly, he can use a maneuver first developed by former Gov. David Paterson — forcing the Senate to choose between accepting the minimum - wage hike in a budget deal or shutting down state government.
The state in 2013 approved a plan to hike the then - $ 7.25 - per - hour minimum wage in three phases to $ 9 an hour.
With the exception of a minimum wage hike and the sighting of new casinos, there wasn't much policy in Cuomo's plan for state lawmakers to get hung up on.