Sentences with phrase «with federal minimum wage»

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But Congress has pushed back against the federal wage increase, with legislation to increase the minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour stalling in the Senate last April.

There's only one problem, as some critics have noted: It's not terribly useful to compare federal minimum wage with the average U.S. rent.

In those places, the federal minimum wage applies, with a general exception for workers who receive tips.

But Congress has pushed back hard against the federal wage increase, with legislation to increase the minimum wage to $ 10.10 an hour stalling in the Senate last April.

Currently, certain kinds of small businesses are exempt from paying employees the federal minimum wage, such as businesses with annual revenues less than $ 500,000, companies that transact within a single state, seasonal businesses, or companies that rely on contract workers.

Under federal wage law, employers who pay the tipped minimum wage, which is lower than the standard minimum wage of $ 7.25 per hour, can't pool and share tips with non-tipped workers.

is calling for a $ 15 - per - hour federal minimum wage, while Hillary Clinton is calling for a $ 12 - per - hour federal hourly pay rate, with high - priced states going even higher.

With support from the White House for a higher federal minimum wage, as well as two plans from congressional Democrats to hike the federal floor to $ 12 and $ 15 an hour by 2020, expect the wage debate to intensify in 2016 on the presidential campaign trail.

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.

Woolf, who is running for the seat in the North Country's 21st district, hosted the call with current incumbent Rep. Bill Owens to attack the Republican candidate, Elise Stefanik, for her views on tax policy and increasing the federal minimum wage.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (02/15/2013)(readMedia)-- Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.

Sen. Chuck Schumer yesterday said at an unrelated news conference that the state Senate had blocked the minimum wage increase measure, disagreeing with the premise of my question that Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn't exert much effort to get the measure through the Legislature (Schumer is the sponsor of a federal measure to raise the national minimum wage).

Colleen Deacon, Eric Kingson and Steve Williams said they support a bill in Congress banning gun sales to suspected terrorists, an increase in the federal minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, increased spending on roads and bridges, a ban on fracking for natural gas, and replacing the elevated portion of Interstate 81 in Syracuse with a boulevard.

«As president, I will proudly stand with working families all across our country and fight for Congress to raise the federal minimum wage to $ 15 an hour and provide paid family leave to every worker in America,» he said.

Cuomo, along with George Gresham — the president of 1199 SEIU — took about half a dozen questions from participants, who asked how the governor reached the $ 15 figure, why was he able to raise the wage for fast food workers, and why the state is pushing to increase the minimum wage and not the federal government.

The backing of the wage floor on the federal level comes after New York's state budget in April approved a measure to increase the state's minimum wage in New York City and the suburban counties to $ 15 over the next several years (upstate hits $ 12.50 and is then subject to an economic formula with the goal of eventually hitting $ 15).

Then, the state leaped ahead of the federal minimum wage of $ 5.15 and began making employers pay $ 6 an hour, with subsequent increases to $ 7.15 by 2007.

MILWAUKEE (AP)-- Drawing a sharp contrast with Democrats, Republican presidential candidates voiced opposition to raising the federal minimum wage in Tuesday's primary debate, casting it as an impediment to national job growth.

«Since New York's minimum wage is tied to the federal minimum wage, Senator Skelos agrees with the Governor that it should be set at the federal level.

Hawkins» platform includes a call for a $ 15 hourly minimum wage rate, a ban on hydrofracking, using government money to hire unemployed workers for public projects, a single - payer healthcare program, rejecting the Common Core teaching standards (and the federal money that came with them), refiguring school aid to give more help to poorer districts and raising taxes on the richest New Yorkers.

Under the bill projects like the Coney Island redevelopment, the Hudson Yards, the Intrepid, all built with city tax breaks, would have to pay their workers a so - called «living wage» of $ 10 a hour with benefits, or $ 11.50 without benefits, instead of the federal minimum wage of $ 7.25.

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

WHEREAS the federal minimum wage would now be more than $ 10 if it had kept up with inflation, but Congress has tried to raise the minimum wage only three times in the last 30 years thereby leaving lowest - paid workers with just $ 7.25 an hour or about $ 15,000 annually for persons working full - time; and

In this new video from Funny or Die, Mary Poppins is fed up with only making the Federal Minimum, and campaigns for a wage increase... in song!

If the minimum wage had kept up with worker productivity, it would now be $ 18.67 an hour — a far cry from the current $ 7.25 federal minimum wage.

In Howey's data, 944 authors out of the 3,439 authors of the almost 7000 Amazon best - sellers (with estimated sales greater than one book per day) were estimated to have earned above federal minimum wage ($ 7.25 * 8 hours = $ 58 / day) from their best - selling books on data collection day.

By law, lenders can not garnish more than 25 percent of your net paycheck, and they can not leave you with a weekly income less than 30 times the federal minimum wage.

Those with very high incomes may be garnished on the amount of disposable earnings in excess of 30 times the federal minimum wage, or 25 percent — whichever is less.

The federal minimum wage of $ 7.25 applies in states with lower minimum wage and in states with no legal minimum wage.

It incrementally raises the federal minimum wage from $ 5.15 to $ 7.25 per hour, with the final stage taking place in July 2009.

There are many jobs, along with a high turnover rate that fortunately motivates hotels to treat employees well, but those jobs pay the federal minimum wage, offer only seasonal employment, and pull people away from their families in the region's interior.

Child labor has been abolished, safe and healthy work environments are guaranteed with federal laws such as Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA), Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and many others, and the minimum wage compensation of workers has increased tremendously.

This special minimum wage rule is inconsistent with the federal Caregiver Program policies that prohibit employers from charging room and board to live - in caregivers.

Unlike the federal minimum wage, the Missouri minimum wage automatically adjusts in accordance with the national Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workwage, the Missouri minimum wage automatically adjusts in accordance with the national Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workwage automatically adjusts in accordance with the national Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical WorkWage Earners and Clerical Workers.

Providence Labor & Employment partner Andrew Prescott authored this column discussing the reinstatement of the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule requiring third - party employers of companionship and live - in domestic service workers to comply with the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime and minimum - wage requirements.