Sentences with phrase «wage proposal as»

Last week at the state Business Council's annual meeting, Cuomo floated the possibility of a tax cut linked to the wage proposal as a way to make the measure more palatable.

The minimum wage proposal as backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a potentially difficult lift for Senate Republicans, whose allies in the business community oppose the agreement.

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As part of the survey, SurePayroll asked small business owners about the proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 9 per hour.

Now wage advocates are focused on 2016, as several states and cities including California and New York will consider proposals in the new year to gradually lift pay further to $ 15 an hour.

A Democratic proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 10.10 from $ 7.25 continues to make controversy in Washington as Democrats and Republicans fight over whether the policy would be good for the economy.

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.

A Cuomo spokeswoman yesterday was harsher in the assessment of de Blasio's minimum wage proposal, calling it a non-starter with the state Legislature, as did a spokesman for Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

A proposal by Tory backbenchers to let disabled people opt out of the minimum wage to find work has been dismissed as «preposterous».

Gov. Andrew Cuomo appeared in both communities to rally for what he called a «fight for fairness» agenda that includes the leave proposal as well as his attempt to boost the minumum hourly wage to $ 15.

That's the industry's seemingly unanimous opinion of the governor's proposal to require that tipped employees — more than 80 percent of whom work in restaurants as servers, bartenders and in similar positions — be paid the state's full minimum wage.

The lobby group's budget analysis singled out the minimum wage proposal backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Democratic lawmakers and wage and labor advocates as the «most significant new business cost» in the spending plan.

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 unveiled on Sunday the proposal to review the tipped wage through hearings in 2018 as part of his agenda in the new year.

As momentum for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposal to raise the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour grows, opponents are trying to fight back.

During this year's negotiations over 421 - a renewal, the assemblyman introduced legislation that would have required recipients of the tax break to pay these contractors a prevailing wage, a proposal critics derided as unnecessary and counterproductive in an industry where workers are already paid substantially more than an average worker's salary.

As for low - wage employees, a recent study by Cornell and American University shows this bill would hurt the very people who the proposal is intended to protect.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to enact a $ 15 wage is one of several issues to be decided as the Democratic governor and state lawmakers seek to work out a state budget deal before an April 1 deadline.

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.

But the proposal has been met with critics in the business community, which blasted Cuomo's remarks on Monday as well as the push to have a wage subsidy in the plan.

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.»

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.

Jimmy Vielkind: «Is Gov. Andrew Cuomo joining a major labor union's push to raise the minimum wage, or is the union putting as - yet - untold amounts of time and money into a boosting a gubernatorial proposal?»

As I wrote in my DN column this morning, the teachers and the public employee unions aren't sold on Cuomo — largely due to proposals that are unpopular with the leadership like spending and property tax caps, wage freezes and support for charter schools.

As momentum for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to raise the state's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour grows, opponents are trying to fight back.

Cuomo's proposal would give New York the highest state minimum wage in the country — and it exceeds Barack Obama's previous goal of a $ 10.10 federal minimum wage when, as he proposed, it took effect at year's end.

As for the minimum wage, Cuomo said last weekend that he would support the Working Families Party's proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 10.10 per hour and to allow individual communities to seek state approval to set their own minimum wages up to 30 percent above.

The governor identified other issues as priorities for being included within the budget, including increasing the minimum wage to $ 10.50 statewide and to $ 11.50 in New York City, a series of tax cuts, and a set of economic and infrastructural revitalization proposals aimed at upstate New York.

In all, the old foes of a minimum wage hike — including Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos — so far are not knocking the proposal as they did last year when Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver proposed the measure (if I'm missing anyone's statement in support or opposition, please let me know).

«As proposed, this minimum wage hike has the potential to offset the projected immediate savings incorporated within his regulatory reform proposals.

«I know that there are a number of proposals that the governor had last year that we did not adopt such as the minimum wage that we did not adopt.»

The dueling proposal come as the two men have already seemed to to be trying to out - progressive each other on issues like hiking the minimum wage last week.

At the time, Cuomo appeared to agree to back the mayor's proposal to allow the city to raise its minimum wage up to 30 percent higher than the state's (as well as other WFP - backed policies and a Democratic takeover of the state Senate).

As state lawmakers huddle with the governor this week to hash out a final spending plan — the final budget is due on Saturday — both the Assembly and Senate proposals include an initial $ 45 million toward a six - year plan to create a living wage for direct care workers.

Mr. Cox also attacked Mr. Cuomo's recent push to raise the statewide minimum wage to $ 15 — «It's a job - killing proposal for his own political purposes,» the Republican chairman said — and the issue would seem primed for a major skirmish in Albany as well.

As long as the GOP hangs onto its narrow majority, the $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage proposal is highly unlikely to pasAs long as the GOP hangs onto its narrow majority, the $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage proposal is highly unlikely to pasas the GOP hangs onto its narrow majority, the $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage proposal is highly unlikely to pass.

President Jeff Shipley says he's never seen them more agitated about something as they are about the minimum wage proposal.

This request comes as the County is still calculating savings from early retirees, who are not required to state their intention to retire until early October, the fact that County Executive Picente is looking to work with unions to freeze wages for this coming year, and because of the need to plan for appropriate job losses in the event that the wage freeze proposal is not accepted.

Policymakers have been trying to address economic inequities through proposals such as wage increases, but based on the trend Owens found, they may have another option.

Critics also have been waging battle against any proposal that seems charter - like, such as innovation zones.

However, they did not attempt to account for factors such as differences in employment levels between 2008 and 2019, as well as differences in nominal wages between the two years, including the fact that Alberta will already have a $ 15 minimum wage in place by 2019, so this federal minimum proposal will not directly boost the wages of any workers in that province.

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If your budget shows that you can't afford to do it yourself, you need to look at other bankruptcy alternatives, such as debt consolidation, credit counseling, Chapter 13 Wage Earner Plan, consumer proposal or if all else fails, personal bankruptcy.

It is a common misconception that financial counseling, or consumer credit counseling, is much better than a Chapter 13 Wage Earner Plan (in the United States) or a consumer proposal (in Canada) as far as your credit score is concerned.

Ted explains how filing bankruptcy or a consumer proposal stops the wage garnishment as soon as your trustee gets your file number from the government (which is instantaneous) through a Stay of Proceedings.

In both cases, if a creditor has taken collection action against you (even the Canada Revenue Agency) or has imposed an enforcement measure such as a wage garnishment or frozen your bank account, this is stopped once a bankruptcy or consumer proposal is filed.

In fact, as soon as your creditors, the court and / or CRA receives notice that you have filed a consumer proposal or a bankruptcy, they must stop the wage garnishment immediately!

Second, you meet with a licensed bankruptcy trustee to review your options, which may also include filing a consumer proposal as an alternative to bankruptcy in Canada (in the U.S. you would need to consider a Chapter 13 Wage Earner Plan).