Sentences with phrase «where minimum wage workers»

Then there's the ongoing labour dispute where minimum wage workers are demanding pay raises.

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A review of studies suggests even where the impact of minimum wage increases is not «benign,» job loss evidence has to be weighed against what happens to the purchasing power of the remaining workers.

The CUPE proposal suggests that there are only benefits and no costs to a higher minimum wage, but then caps the minimum wage hikes to a level where only single - earner full - time minimum - wage workers (with no other sources of income) cross the LIM.

Cohen is also at the center of a huge debate unfolding right now about raising the minimum wage, and the low pay of service workers in the restaurant industry, where employment has increased 72 percent since 1992, compared to job growth of 22 percent in higher - paying private sector employment over the same time period.

Still, many economists and public policy advocates argue that in states where minimum wage is higher than the federal mandate, the economies fare better than in states where businesses stick to the federal minimum wage, which is currently not indexed to inflation and hence forces some workers to live below poverty level.

By contrast, the states with the highest proportion of workers making the federal minimum wage or less are Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and Idaho, where between seven and eight percent of workers make at or below $ 7.25.

We've worked to create a situation where the middle class is suddenly within reach of gaming workers... not a bunch of minimum - wage jobs where people have to live on the dole to survive.»»

While there are compelling reasons from the perspective of poorly paid (or unemployed) workers in eastern and southern Europe to relocate to higher wage economies in the west and north of Europe, there is little incentive for British workers to go to the post-2004 EU countries where the quality of life is lower and minimum wage is as low as # 1.36 per hour, if it exists at all.

A Labour administration would focus on three things to help ease pressure on public services and wages including better enforcement of the minimum wage, cracking down on recruitment agencies who only supplied workers from particular countries and looking at areas and types of jobs where there were large numbers of foreign workers.

He talked about a buccaneering Britain, where working parents will be given 30 hours of free childcare, where workers on the minimum wage will not pay personal income tax and where the NHS will be miraculously saved by new investment.

«Because if fast food worker deserves $ 15 an hour, construction workers deserve $ 15 an hour,» Cuomo said to enthusiastic union members, where he also announced an executive action raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour.

«Because if fast food worker deserves $ 15 an hour, construction workers deserve $ 15 an hour,» Cuomo said to enthusiastic union members, where he also announced his executive action raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour.

With American labor and minimum wage laws applying to Puerto Rico, it remains difficult for hotel builders to develop in Puerto Rico as opposed to the Dominican Republic where workers earn $ 60 a week as opposed to $ 240 week in PR.

Teachout had just come from a rally with fast - food workers, where she endorsed their call for a $ 15 minimum wage.

For example Nick Thornsby calls for a regional minimum wage as «setting an artificially high minimum wage in the poorest areas, where business activity already tends to be limited, makes workers in those areas less attractive still to businesses looking to recruit: it weakens their comparative advantage.»

It also demands the passage of laws guaranteeing renters an attorney in housing court, a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, more construction projects employing union workers and local residents, more supportive housing for people with HIV, and an end to former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's «cluster - site» housing — where the city paid landlords $ 3,000 a month to put up homeless families, often in deplorable conditions.

The trainers are made in Brazil in factories where workers are paid well above the legal minimum wage and where workers rights are well respected.

1) They chose to study wages in wealthy states where a rise in the national minimum wage may only reflect the already prevailing wage for low income workers in the state.

All of Stormie Dream's garments are designed and produced in Los Angeles, where workers are paid a higher - than - minimum wage.

It is a world where jobs pay less than the minimum wage, and sometimes nothing at all; where employers do not pay overtime for 60 - hour weeks, and deny meal breaks that are required by law; where vital health and safety regulations are routinely ignored, even after injuries occur; and where workers are subject to blatant discrimination, and retaliated against for speaking up or trying to organize.

The overhaul is intended to benefit workers by raising the minimum wage in two stages to $ 15 an hour by 2019, ensuring equal pay for part - time employees, increasing vacation entitlements and making it easier to unionize in certain sectors where employment is precarious.

1450, where the District Court permitted punitive damages to be asserted in a wage claim brought by garment workers who were denied minimum wage and overtime.

During this time Mary also volunteered at the Workers» Action Centre, where she provided assistance with employment standards matters and took part in worker and advocate - organized campaigns to raise the minimum wage and achieve systemic legal reform.