“High hourly wages mean nothing to a worker if he has no job”, the Southern States Industrial Council cautioned in 1938.
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Mr Parker said if people are taken on as contractors and not employees, they are not entitled to minimum wage, holiday pay, sick pay or get ACC levies paid for them. There is simply no historical data to suggest that sizable wage increases have even a modest unemployment effect, let alone the “job-killing” impact the Chicken Little economists always predict.
And we’ve seen a positive impact when wages are raised for specific industries like what the wage board is recommending for fast food. We keep hearing that these minimum-wage laws benefit restaurant workers.
He says certain types of work, such as delivering pamphlets, are not subject to any minimum wage requirements. Perhaps that’s why restaurateurs who reflexively opposed Seattle’s historic $15 minimum-wage ordinance continue to open new restaurants at a steady pace?
As reported recently in this blog and elsewhere, the United States Department of Labor solicited comments on a proposal to modify (and potentially index) the minimum salary to be paid to exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a move which could raise the wages of tens of thousands of managers and supervisors.
The labor demonstration was held before the start of yesterday’s minimum wage review meeting convened by the government.
How is this possible?
“Some employers are getting round the Minimum Wage Act, and it’s becoming more frequent”, he said during the first reading debate. Workers who find that they are due money can submit a claim.
The state Labor Department’s Worker Protection Division is in charge of pursuing the recoveries – the division investigates cases of wage theft within New York state.
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“New York has zero tolerance for those who seek to deny an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work”, Cuomo said.
