Sentences with phrase «wage rates passed»
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Connecticut state lawmakers became the first in the country to pass legislation that would increase the state's minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour, by 2017 — the same rate President Barack Obama wants for the federal minimum wage.
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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».
Raising the minimum wage — which last went up a dime three years ago to meet the current federal rate — could mean passing along a 17 percent increase in expenses to her clients.
The Democrat - controlled Assembly already passed the legislation, which would also create automatic yearly increases in the wage rate in step with inflation.
The government passed legislation in 2014 to tie annual increases in the minimum wage to the rate of inflation for Ontario.
But the new law's provisions assume the lion's share of RIA profits are wage - related and thus not eligible for the lower, qualified business profits» pass - through rate.
Overall, the Pensacola - Ferry Pass - Brent area has 152,000 total employed workers according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, with a 2 % unemployment rate, $ 18 / hr average worker wage, and a $ 36,740 average annual salary.