Sentences with phrase «wage proposal so»

First we must fight this double whammy of unfair cuts being forced upon them and, second, we need to push for improvements to the chancellor's living wage proposal so that low paid workers genuinely are better off.»

Not exact matches

While Bush's business - themed policy proposals will likely offer a mixture of traditionally Republican tax cuts and so - called trickle down economics, he's likely to define his views on how to support the middle class, lift up the lowest wage workers, and close the income gap, which would continue on the themes he started talking about earlier this year.

The 50 or so demonstrators directed their ire toward Governor Cuomo and Senate Co Leader Jeff Klein, who they say aren't doing enough to convince Republicans in the Senate to go along with a proposal to raise the minimum wage to $ 9 an hour.

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.

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.»

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).

He said that despite the fact that Cuomo took the unusual step of including in his proposal a seemingly non-budget related policy initiative — hiking the state's hourly minimum wage from $ 7.25 to $ 8.75 — which is something the Senate Republicans (and their business community allies) have so far opposed.

So right now, the city is better off than it would have been, especially when you realize that the minimum wage jobs under the Related proposal wouldn't have generated any state income tax or relieved the burden on social services like Medicaid / Medicare, etc..

Even with minimum wage increases cropping up around the nation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $ 15 - an - hour proposal stands out for directing so much more money to so many workers.

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.

Doug Hoyes: So, when we compare a bankruptcy and a proposal together, they both stop wage garnishments, they're both going to stop collection calls.

Rebecca Martyn: So, to get the wage garnishment lifted you can either file an assignment of bankruptcy or you can file a consumer proposal.

Doug Hoyes: So, the message here is for those types of debts that you just talked about, a bankruptcy or a consumer proposal, very quickly stops wage garnishments, and that for a lot of people is the whole reason that they do them.