Sentences with phrase «worker wage hike»

Not exact matches

While some workers may lose their job after the minimum wage increase (more on that in a minute), a very large number of workers will see an important pay hike, and that will loop back into the economy.

As U.S. fast - food workers continue to strike over wages, concerns build about what a wage hike might do to franchise owners and consumers.

franchises moved to offset Ontario's minimum wage hike by cutting paid breaks and forcing workers to cover a bigger share of their benefits.

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.

Foxconn, meanwhile, has responded to the issue by hiking employee pay by 30 %, which the CEOs see as both an appropriate response to the company's mistreatment of its workers, and a sign of further wage pressures in China.

-- Similarly exploited immigrant labor without labor rights (all temporary and dual purpose immigrants), employer sponsorship being the key to suppressing wages (plus all of David Card's papers and equations are wrong due to DNWR)-- Fair Labor Standards Act generally doesn't apply to office workers and other positions that corporations tag as professionals and / or managers, despite recent Obama hike of minimum applicable wage.

However, hikes in minimum wages in a number of states and reports that prominent companies are having to offer higher pay to attract workers may start to show up in wage statistics in the months ahead.

Tipped employees at restaurants employing less than 500 workers will earn at least a $ 10 minimum cash wage, a 53 cent hike from the current minimum.

DiNapoli said his office also has questions about the timing of the governor's plan to raise the hourly minimum wage of state workers $ 15 an hour in order to set an example for his push for a statewide hike to that level.

SEIU officials say their push for a minimum wage hike is in line with their commitment to advancing the economic lot of workers.

And, as always during budget talks, there's potential for legislative horse trading: Senate Republicans want to remove the Cuomo administration's ability to raise the minimum wage for a specific industry, which it used to approve a major hike for fast - food workers last year.

ALBANY — While unionized state workers are getting hit with three years of wage freezes, and Gov. Cuomo and his top aides are taking 5 percent wage cuts, state Senate Republicans are doling out pay hikes to most of their Capitol staffers, The Post has learned.

How much money will low - income workers lose by delaying the minimum wage hike to $ 9 an hour over three years — without indexing to the rate of inflation?

As Clinton joined Cuomo's wage hike celebration just two weeks before the state's crucial primary election, a spokesman for Sanders chided her for not fully committing to a similar minimum wage for workers across the country.

Randy Mastro argues against a minimum wage hike for fast food workers.

In the email, Astorino claimed the minimum wage hike won't just hurt businesses, but minorities and younger workers.

Having two different minimum wages in Upstate will make it difficult for some industries to recruit or keep good workers who could make more money at McDonald's, said Greg Biryla, executive director of Unshackle Upstate, a business group that opposed the wage hike.

Last month, a wage board appointed by Governor Cuomo suggested a minimum wage hike for fast food workers to $ 15 an hour.

The savings come from reduced costs for public assistance to low - wage workers — in effect a taxpayer subsidy to large low - wage employers — and increased tax payments by workers benefiting from the wage hike.

Governor Cuomo has acted alone this year on several different issues, including a minimum wage hike for fast food workers and legal protections for transgender New Yorkers.

Cuomo urged minimum wage workers who do not receive a pay hike to call the Labor Department Hotline: 1 -888-4-NYSDOL.

Cuomo touted the reforms done to explored workers laws, the measure he approved for pay card regulations as well as his support for airport workers and the wage hike for tipped workers.

Skelos had not been enthused over the initial wage hike to begin with, but today said there should be discussions such as workers compensation and regulatory reform with any minimum wage conversation as well.

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that the governor's latest wage board is poised to recommend hiking the hourly pay of New York's fast food workers all the way to $ 15, and the state's Labor Commissioner is expected to sign off on that recommendation.

Hiking the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour for food - service workers would boost paychecks in the city by $ 1.3 billion a year, a new analysis by NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer found.

The state Labor Department is downplaying the likelihood that jobs might be lost as the result of a pending wage hike for fast food workers.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state labor leaders on Monday pledged a concerted campaign to boost the state's minimum wage to $ 15 over the coming years by leaning on the state Legislature for the latest hike for low - wage workers in the last several years.

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.

Former Giuliani administration deputy Randy Mastro provided some colorful commentary at today's hearing on a restaurateurs» challenge to the proposed minimum wage hike for fast food workers.

Since the governor's wage board hiked the hourly pay of tipped workers in New York by 50 percent, a growing number of restaurants are establishing «no tipping» policies.

In the summer, and as Cuomo's feud with liberal New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio erupted into public view, Cuomo convened a wage board at the Department of Labor to study a minimum wage hike for workers in the fast - food industry.

A union pushing to hike New York's minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, SEIU Local 32BJ, will single out Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco in an attack ad that calls him the $ 6 million man who doesn't want workers to earn a livable wage.

Hawkins faulted Cuomo for his continued foot dragging on providing a wage hike for food tip workers.

Food tip workers were excluded from last year's deal on a pay hike, Cuomo has refused for more than a year to convene a minimum wage board to provide a hike administratively as state lawmakers directed him to do.

He says a hike in the minimum age puts pressure on employers to pay even higher wage workers more money, and could adversely affect teenagers, who might not get hired if the minimum wage is increased.

Hawkins supports raising the state minimum wage to $ 15 an hour, indexed to increases in worker productivity, and would crack down on the epidemic of wage theft in the state Gov. Andrew Cuomo has refused more than a year to convene a minimum wage board to provide a wage hike to tip workers despite this being part of the wage agreement last year with the legislature.

The majority of New Yorkers who support a minimum wage hike want it to be raised at least $ 10 an hour so workers don't have to flood food pantries looking for food to feed their families.

Democrats in the State Senate held a forum promoting a hike in the state's minimum wage, while a conservative group says there's already a government program in place that boosts the earnings of low wage workers well above the current minimum standard.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's labor commissioner is likely in the next few days to finalize a phased in hike in the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour for fast food workers.

Cuomo originally proposed a $ 15 minimum wage statewide, but Republicans were able to limit that to $ 12.50 in areas north of Westchester County (subject to an index that could hike rates higher), push out the phase - in on Long Island, win a promise from the governor not to convene any wage boards for the next five years and limit increases for tipped workers.

Some liberal groups that have often sniped at Cuomo from his left flank attacked that implementation period, saying it would not provide the necessary relief to workers — the governor's rationale for pushing the wage hike.

Cuomo proposed raising the minimum wage to $ 15 for all workers after his administration approved gradually hiking the wage to that level for fast food workers, state government employees and State University of New York employees.

It cites 70 unspecified studies and says instead the wage hike would increase employment, because the lowest - waged workers would have more money to spend on goods and services in their communities.

He's issued announcements including the convening of a special wage board to look at whether to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers, and the opening new hiking trails in the North Country.

Auburn Citizen: Cuomo directs wage board to explore possible minimum wage hike for fast food workers

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Sixty - four percent of the nearly 100 local business owners surveyed by Assemblyman Will Barclay said they'd lay off workers if the state's minimum wage is hiked to $ 15 an hour, Barclay said Tuesday.

Cuomo's unilateral move, which affects around 10,000 workers, including about 1,000 in New York City, makes New York the first state to hike the minimum wage to $ 15 for all state employees.

Workers and other supporters of Cuomo's minimum wage hike stood in the halls of the Capitol Monday for what they hoped would be a 24 - hour vigil.

Hawkins slammed Cuomo for refusing for more than a year to convene a minimum wage board to provide a wage hike to tip workers despite this being part of the wage agreement last year with the legislature.

The union's contract expired at the end of 2013, and as the local mayoral election heated up in Albany, blue - collar workers came out in force protesting Sheehan's pay increases for nonunion employees and demanded wage hikes.