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«The percentage of owners citing the difficulty of finding qualified workers as their most important business problem increased and is now third on the list, behind taxes and regulations,» Bill Dunkelberg, the chief economist for NFIB said in a press release.

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies think tank, told Polis's local paper The Daily Camera that «there is a much stronger case» for Start - up Visas than, say, for expanding guest worker programs or family - based immigration, both of which are included in the larger reform bill.

«The proposition that held from the 1950s until recently is that as businesses did well, so would workers,» says Robert Shapiro, a senior policy scholar at Georgetown's Center for Business and Public Policy and former economic adviser to President Bill Clinton.

Congress considered bills this year to amend provisions in the H - 1B visa laws that tech workers say have led to thousands of layoffs, but no action was taken.

I wonder how Bill Gates would have felt if we said maybe we should tax those operating systems you're selling because you will lose the telephones and all the postal workers will be replaced.

The measure «will give entrepreneurs the protection and the confidence they need to attract investment to grow their businesses and to hire new workers,» the President said on signing the bill.

«Companies that have been relying on this system for 25 years suddenly have no workers,» said Bill Seiling, director of the Chesapeake Bay Seafood Industries Association.

So on one hand you are saying bill 6 is of no value to farmers without paid workers and on the other you are saying that a farmer who enrolled in WCB long before the NDP government brought us bill 6 benefitted from enrolment in the WCB.

Sanders said the bill would empower an «unelected and undemocratic oversight board» and criticized the legislation for allowing the governor of Puerto Rico to cut the minimum wage temporarily for some younger workers.

In a recorded phone call to voters, Labor leader Bill Shorten said that «cuts to penalty rates will rip off 700,000 workers».

(Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who has said furloughing state workers would be an illegal breech of their contract, told me yesterday that the bill arrived after his members had already gaveled out for the day).

Clinton has noted that Sanders voted against a 2007 immigration reform bill, saying he would concerned the guest worker provisions it contained would drive down wages.

The influential NYC principals union endorsed Mayor Bill de Blasio for reelection last night, joining the teachers union and a host of other labor groups supporting the worker - friendly mayor, campaign officials said.

It expresses concerns about some of the anti-sexual harassment measures currently under consideration by Cuomo and the Legislature, saying some of the bills might actually cut back on the rights of workers, instead of increasing protections.

«Any 421a bill has to both create affordable housing and protect workers by providing a real prevailing wage,» she said.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently signed a bill making it harder for government workers to escape labor unions, he said it was just «the first step of the resistance.»

Immigrant and cycling advocates say Mayor Bill de Blasio's revised policy for cracking down on e-bikes could go further in protecting immigrant delivery workers from interactions with the police.

Sikora, an organizer for the Communication Workers of America who worked on NYPIRG's successful effort to pass lead paint legislation, received the endorsement of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said Sikora «cares about diverse, inclusive and affordable Brooklyn neighborhoods, and has a record of getting results.»

Bill Morris, former General Secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union (now part of Unite), once said that the most powerful position he had ever held was not at the TGWU, nor at the TUC, Bank of England, or BBC, but as chair of Labour's conference arrangements committee.

But East Harlem Councilwoman Melissa Mark - Viverito said the shelving of the bill was detrimental to low - income workers.

1199 SEIU, the powerful health care workers» union, has decided to endorse Public Advocate Bill de Blasio in the Democratic primary for mayor, sources say.

Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled today his solution to the ongoing conflict over pension payouts to cops, firefighters, corrections officers and sanitation workers hurt on the job — but union leaders said they remain unsatisfied.

It was hours after when state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli said the two emergency bills must be passed in order to guarantee on - time paychecks for 150,000 state workers on Tuesday.

CROWN HEIGHTS — Three officers and a lieutenant caught on video arresting an on - duty postal worker in Crown Heights earlier this month have been removed from their normal posts as the NYPD investigates the incident, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Tuesday.

«Many states would be forced to kick low - income and disabled people off their health care coverage once federal funding for the Medicaid program is cut, as this Senate bill would do,» said Chris Shelton, president of the Communications Workers of America.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo will be pushing for a bill to raise the minimum wage for all workers to $ 15 an hour in the new legislative session, but some say it could backfire and result in fewer jobs.

Heastie, asked about the potential amendments to the governor's bill, says he still thinks the Assembly measure is better, because it provides enough money so that low wage workers can also take advantage of the benefit.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he spoke with Republicans in neighboring Iowa as they prepared to vote on a bill that would eliminate most collective bargaining rights for public workers there.

A new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) says there is little evidence to support the expansion of high - skilled guest worker programs, like those proposed in the immigration bill being debated in the Senate.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said the Democrats» bill uses the existing Temporary Disability Fund to give workers up to two thirds of their pay to care for a sick family member or bond with a new born.

TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said: «This Bill is an unnecessary attack on workers» rights and civil liberties that will shift the balance of power in the workplace.

Though the business community has disagreed with Cuomo over the minimum wage bill and his recent executive actions raising the wage for fast food workers, Briccetti says she understand the governor has political considerations with the left of his party.

He said: «The bill tries to drive a false wedge between government, industry, employees and the public by restricting rights — and at worst criminalising — ordinary working people, from midwives to factory workers to challenge low - pay or health and safety concerns.

The source said bills targeted for veto could include an 11th - hour measure requiring public utilities, including Con Edison, to pay contract workers «prevailing» wage.

«From the Unemployment Strikeforce to the Urban Youth Jobs program, we are making smart investments to tackle unemployment in communities where it is most pervasive, and connect tomorrow's workers with the skills they need to succeed in a 21st century workplace,» said Cuomo at a bill signing ceremony held at Hostos Community College.

Across Midtown, the smallest of of the Big Apple's businesses say they're getting ready for the City Council's proposed paid - sick - leave bill, which, according to a compromise announced by Council Speaker Christine Quinn last Thursday, would require companies of 15 or more employees to provide five paid sick days for each full - time worker by October 2015.

«The workers that the government bailed out were in difficult situation because they had school fees, house rent and other bills to pay, and this bailout was aimed to reduce crime and tension because some of them could have resorted to criminal activities if not for the government's intervention,» the statement said.

AG Eric Schneiderman is backing a new bill aimed at regulating the use of so - called payroll cards, whose fees, critics say, can severely cut into the paychecks of low - wage workers.

Two days after a 38 - year - old man was killed by a crawler crane that collapsed onto a Lower Manhattan street as workers tried to secure it against accelerating winds, Mayor Bill de Blasio said New York City was lowering the wind - speed threshold at which such equipment must be shut down.

Without the ability to pay workers or even guarantee their salaries in the future, officials said, they could be forced to close down state agencies immediately after the last emergency bill expires on Monday.

The City Council approved the bill to ban the buses» blaring loud speakers three weeks ago, but after listening to members of the Transportation Workers Union discuss the job losses that might be incurred if the bill became law, the mayor said he would wait until he spoke with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn before he signed.

«There's nothing you can do to help American workers more than passing the paid - family - leave bill,» she said.

Cuomo's comments, during an interview on an upstate radio program, once again line him up in opposition to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who says the cap is necessary to stem rising congestion and ensure workers» rights and proper regulation.

Specifically, Padernacht says he's received pressure from SEIU 1199 (the healthcare workers union) and the office of Public Advocate (and former Councilman) Bill de Blasio, one of the city's rising Democratic stars.

The Government's Immigration Bill must ensure that British business has access to sufficient levels of EU workers or major construction projects will grind to a halt, Brian Berry, Chief Executive of the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has said in response to the Queen's Speech.

He supported a Cuomo - backed bill to improve disability pensions for uniformed workers over a more modest version the mayor sought and wrote to the city ripping a plan to place homeless people at a Queens hotel located near the Nassau County border with zero public outreach, Thies said.

«The Minister has just said that the Government proposals would provide greater security for postal workers» pensions, but can he confirm that clause 19 (6)(b) of the Postal Services Bill provides that this or a future Government could waive the pension guarantee and vary the terms of the postal workers» pensions without the approval of the trustees, who will lose their power to protect the pensions under the provisions of the Bill?

Just this week he signed a bill on the Janus issue, which is very important to our members,» said Beverley Brakeman, assistant director of the United Auto Workers Region 9A.

It expresses concerns over some of the anti-sexual harassment measures currently under consideration by Governor Cuomo and the legislature, saying some of the bills might actually cut back on the rights of workers, instead of increasing protections.