Sentences with phrase «wage increase proposal»

There are some who support additional items in the state budget, like the minimum wage increase proposal.

DeFrancisco said that it was unlikely lawmakers would take action this year to help victims of child sex abuse obtain justice, but also noted he felt the same way about a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage increase proposal — and he was wrong.

But it has failed to recover in recent years because of a series of policies that increase the burden on small - business owners — higher taxes, increases to health - care costs, more costly regulations, and now the minimum wage increase proposal

«Even if the current minimum wage increase proposals don't affect your company, it sets a bad precedent,» Merrill Matthews a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation in Dallas wrote in a recent article for NCMM.

Not exact matches

And while New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said the wage bump would create momentum for wage increases in other states, New York franchise owners expressed unhappiness about the proposal, saying they are being unfairly singled out.

Two organizations, Canadian Union of Public Sector Employees (CUPE) and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) have publicly released their proposals on how the minimum wage should be increased in Ontario, with the CCPA proposal in particular showing some promise.

In his ambitious second term agenda, announced during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, President Obama raised a proposal that made small business owners sit up and take notice: an increase in the minimum wage to $ 9 from its current $ 7.25.

Silver added that he did not expect his proposal to increase the minimum wage would eventually become a major sticking point in the $ 132.5 billion budget, which could be ironed out as early as this week.

Don't expect the measure to increase the minimum wage to $ 8.50 linked to anything like the Tier VI pension proposal, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said this afternoon.

The proposal would increase the minimum wage to $ 8.50 and tie to the rate of inflation.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos has called that proposal a job killer, but asked earlier this month if he was ruling out any increase of the minimum wage this session, the Long Island Republican only said he would not take up «Silver's bill.»

Meanwhile, de Blasio insisted Gov. Andrew Cuomo remains on board with a plan to allow local governments to increase the state's minimum wage on its own, based on a state formula even after the governor maneuvered to alter an initial proposal for pre-Kindergarten in New York City that took the idea statewide.

Republican lawmakers in the Senate continue to express reservations with the proposal to increase the state's minimum wage to $ 15 over several years with different phase in periods for different regions of the state.

In a news release the National Employment Law Project refers to state proposal to increase the minimum wage to $ 8.50 and then tie future increases to the rate of inflation a «more modest proposal» — which is probably news to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, the main backer of the bill since January.

Polls show broad support for increasing the state's minimum wage and while Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't taken a position on Silver's proposal, he's said he agrees in theory raising the wage wouldn't be the «job - killer» that Skelos has warned about.

The report predicts significant job losses if Governor Cuomo's proposal to increase New York's minimum wage to $ 15 is enacted.

The average New Yorker knows a minimum wage increase would be beneficial to the state's economy; that's why two recent public opinion polls showed sizable majorities of New Yorkers — 62 % (Quinnipiac) and 59 % (Siena)-- support Governor Cuomo's proposal for a $ 15 minimum wage.

Under the terms of the agreement, Cuomo would support local control for a minimum wage increase — a proposal he has previously opposed — as well as back a full Democratic takeover of the state Senate.

The state Business Council on Friday released new concerns over the proposed increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 as well as the proposal for a 12 - week paid family leave program.

Cuomo did open the door to the possibility of taking his minimum wage proposal out of the executive budget, which he has argued he included there because increasing how much low - income New Yorkers earn has the potential to help boost the economy.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino in a video released on Thursday decried the closure of major upstate businesses like Alcoa and criticized Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to increase the state's minimum wage to $ 15 in the coming years.

In addition, a fiscally conservative think tank is out with a study that shows potential effects of Cuomo's proposal to phase in an increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

Mr Smith will also emphasise the importance for lower paid workers in Wales of Labour's proposal to increase the minimum wage.

This year, Cuomo has put the proposal to increase the minimum wage to $ 8.75 an hour into his budget in January, giving Republicans the choice of accepting the idea or potentially rejecting the entire state spending plan.

He says Governor Cuomo's proposal to increase the minimum wage to $ 11.50 downstate and $ 10.50 upstate, won't be in the spending plan.

«There is strong overall support from voters for the governor's proposal to increase the minimum wage to $ 15, however, there are wide partisan and geographic differences,» said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.

Senate Republicans have not included a minimum wage increase in their budget proposal but some members indicate it is an issue they are willing to negotiate.

Cuomo's proposal shirks promises he made to the Working Families Party last spring in exchange for its endorsement that he would back a plan to allow the city to increase its minimum wage in connection to the rate of inflation.

In addition, a fiscally conservative think tank is out with a study that shows potential effects of Governor Cuomo's proposal to phase in an increase in the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour.

The New York State Senate recessed on June 23rd without acting on the proposal to increase the minimum wage to $ 6.75 per hour on January 1, 2001.

We, the undersigned economists and social scientists, support Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to increase the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour by 2019 in New York City, and by mid-2021 in the rest of the state.

Cuomo had been expected to propose a comprehensive minimum - wage increase, but he typically saves his major policy initiatives for unveiling in January, teeing up his proposals for the spring legislative session in his State of the State speech.

Some Democrats, including State Sen. Marc Panepinto of Buffalo and Jose Peralta of Queens, said they could not endorse the budget because it did not include proposals to increase the minimum wage or limit corporate campaign contributions.

Senate: Rejects Executive Budget proposal but will consider phasing in a minimum wage increase over three years beginning in 2013.

Governor Dannel Malloy announced his proposal to increase the minimum wage during his State of the State Address on February 6th, 2013.

De Blasio's proposal to renew 421 - a would increase the allowable length of a tax abatement from 25 years to 35 years and require more service workers in subsidized buildings to be paid a prevailing wage.

In early 2015, the Legislature rejected Cuomo's proposal to increase New York City's overall minimum wage to $ 11.50 and $ 10.50 for elsewhere in the state.

He already raised the state's mininum wage once, in 2013, and he included another increase in this year's state budget proposal.

Assembly Democrats and unions have been pushing for an increase the minimum wage, and polls show most New Yorker's back the proposal.

«We're now coming into the heat of the negotiating session with the Assembly and the Senate and now we're going to determine whether or not our key legislative proposals actually pass,» Cuomo told listeners, highlighting his push to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour and his proposal for 12 weeks of employee - funded paid family leave.

While he's glad a minimum wage increase is in the mix for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 142.6 budget proposal, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says future increases should be tied to the rate of inflation so it doesn't become part of a «political football.»

Senate Republicans may also want to win a version of their property - tax rebate proposal, which at one point was going to be linked to a minimum wage increase or the DREAM Act.

The minimum wage increase was just one of 10 proposals that the governor unveiled in advance of his State of the State address in Albany on Wednesday, including expansions in job programs for urban youth, additional funding for homeless services and low - income housing, and assistance for food programs.

Under the latest proposal, sources say New York City would see a $ 15 wage after three years, the neighboring suburban counties, including those on Long Island and Westchester, would see $ 15 after four years and upstate New York would get an increase to $ 13 or another number less than 15.

The Assembly's one - house budget includes a $ 200 million reserve fund to help health care providers afford an increase in the statewide hourly minimum wage to $ 15, while the Senate's version doesn't address the wage issue at all, but does have a Paid Family Leave proposal.

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.

Also at 11 a.m., the Senate holds a hearing on proposals to increase the minimum wage in New York to $ 15 an hour, Hearing Room A, LOB, Albany.

A press released touting the SUNY wage increase — which will not impact CUNY or community college employees — called the wage proposal the «1st proposal» for the governor's 2016 agenda.

The $ 300 million in tax cuts spread out over the next several years in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposal aren't enough to offset a minimum wage increase to $ 15, Majority Leader John Flanagan told reporters on Monday.

But between the minimum wage increase to $ 15 Cuomo is pushing and other ideas like a paid family leave program, «businesses are just going to shrug their shoulders and turn away; there's not going to be rousing applause» for the tax cut proposals, according to NFIB's Mike Durant.