Seattle's new minimum
wage law groups franchises with large businesses, putting the pressure on independent franchisees to increase workers» pay at an accelerated pace (a move that sparked a discrimination lawsuit from the IFA).
Not exact matches
The
law also prohibits new
group health plans from establishing any eligibility rules for healthcare coverage that have discriminate against lower -
wage employees.
Franchise owners in Seattle are still on track to be
grouped with large businesses under the city's new minimum
wage law.
But for
wage advocacy
groups, including the National Employment
Law Project, the hike is a small gesture.
1) Anyone who understands how supply and demand inter-relate should understand that minimum
wage laws are not only counter-productive on an economy - wide basis but also cause the most problems for the
group of workers they have supposedly been put in place to protect.
The
group also opposes repealing the prevailing
wage law.
Michael Kink, with the progressive
group the Strong Economy for All Coalition, says Cuomo's strategy shows that he is serious about getting a
law passed that would bring New York from the 20th highest minimum
wage in the country, to the number three position.
A fiscal watchdog
group is questioning the state's century - old prevailing
wage law for construction workers, saying it unnecessarily costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year in added expenses for big road, bridge and other projects.
Construction workers left their hardhats at home on Monday to testify in front of a
group of state lawmakers on a bill that would eliminate Wisconsin's prevailing -
wage laws.
The leader of the Business Council of New York State says her
group will fight Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to raise the state's minimum
wage to $ 15 an hour, but concedes that the legislation may become
law soon.
The progressive
group Citizen Action decried the lower rate for upstate saying, compared to California's minimum age
law passed earlier Thursday, which plans to raise its minimum
wage statewide to $ 15, New York's plan is «a day late and $ 2.50 short».
A
group of New York carwash owners has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging that a
law that officials say is meant to protect low -
wage workers is illegally favoring unions.
A new report from a labor - backed advocacy
group — the National Employment
Law Project — claims a $ 15 - an - hour minimum
wage could be outdated in Westchester by 2021.
Business
groups want New York state to revamp a
law requiring contractors on public works projects to pay employees a so - called prevailing
wage.
The contributions to the PAC come talk of a revived 421a abatement provision, which lapsed earlier this year when real estate
groups and construction labor unions failed to reach an agreement on a prevailing
wage measure in the renewal of the
law.
Tagged with: ABC Assembly Committee on Labor Associated Builders & Contractors of Wisconsin Construction Business
Group Eagle Construction
law Mary Williams Mielke prevailing
wage Sinicki state budget
The top official at a construction
group heavily involved in making sure prevailing
wage and other employment
laws are enforced is being challenged for his seat in Wisconsin's state Assembly.
A state representative who leads a construction
group involved in ensuring prevailing
wage and other employment
laws are enforced has decided not to seek re-election.
The amicus brief cited examples from an array of
groups increasingly using public records
laws to gain access to emails beyond those of climate scientists, including animal rights
groups that have long
waged legal battles against researchers who use animals in their studies and opponents of genetically modified organisms seeking to expose the emails of scientists in efforts to demonstrate links to industry.
On a more serious note, as intern - advocacy
group Internocracy pointed out last year, employers often believe there is a «grey area» around internships and the minimum
wage laws that allows them to take on unpaid interns as long as both sides understand it is a voluntary position.
Convenience store
groups have
waged a long and unsuccessful lobbying campaign to convince state legislators to change the
law, according to reports.
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