Sentences with phrase «wage legislation did»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has never signaled a willingness to let municipalities set their own rates, although the state's recent minimum wage legislation did set the rates based on regions.

The minimum wage legislation doesn't have much practical significance when employers can freely introduce «zero hours» working contracts.

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While he did not mention what new level he favored, as governor he passed legislation that will increase Maryland's minimum wage to $ 10.10.

Marking Equal Pay Day, Cuomo advanced legislation to prohibit all employers, public and private, who do business in New York, from asking prospective employees about their salary history and compensation, putting the state New York on track to close the gender wage gap.

Some Senate Democats are hopeful an eleventh - hour deal will be reached on the Wage Theft Protection Act and perhaps something to do with Green Jobs, but that would require a three - way agreement, because leaders are loath to gavel into regular session and open the door for a legislation free - for - all.

«I don't think the IDC played a definitive role in any of that,» Lipton said, «and I think a progressive majority in the state Senate could have gotten much better raise the age legislation passed, could have gotten a much stronger minimum wage bill, not to mention all the stuff that's left undone.»

The speech did not go into any policy specifics, except to mention historic Labour policies that she is proud of «from the NHS to the minimum wage to the equality legislation».

Just days after lawmakers took out of the state budget plans to repeal Wisconsin's remaining prevailing - wage laws, two Republicans began circulating legislation that would do the same thing.

Powell was a one man sit in who integrated Capitol Hill and has chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee was instrumental in getting Medicaid expanison, minimum wage increases, Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnsons» War on Poverty done through legislation.

Koppell did say he was going to push legislation to require a living wage across the board for developers who receive public subsidies, a move people in the meeting were please with.

CITY HALL — After months of heated debate and demonstrations, City Council Speaker Christine announced a deal Friday afternoon on controversial legislation that would force developers who receive big city subsidies to pay their workers more than the minimum wage but would exempt their tenants from doing the same.

But, Senator Cousins says, she doesn't know if the minimum wage bill or any other legislation will get passed in before the session ends.

In previous articles, we have written about how Canadian Human Rights legislation confers broad powers on adjudicators to make damage awards for wage and other financial loss, for damage to dignity, feelings or self - respect, and for exemplary damages to drive home the heinous nature of impugned conduct; to order employers to institute educational programs; or to do other pro-active things to secure compliance with the Code.

They do not need to provide riders any annual leave, the statutory minimum wage, the protections of whistleblowing legislation, the right to claim unfair dismissal or trade union recognition rights.

«It doesn't go so far as to create a licence for wage - restraint legislation — it just doesn't; this is a unique circumstance — but I think governments are at least going to have some comfort that certain forms of wage - restraint legislation is not automatically unconstitutional.»