University of Rochester President Sarah Manglesdorf says the institution will increase its minimum wage to $15 per hour by December 2022.
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Minimum wage push continues
New York’s Fight for $15 carries on. Earlier this month, the State Legislature passed a budget that included a phased-in boost in the state’s minimum wage. Downstate, the wage will increase to $15 an hour by 2021. But in Upstate, the wage will reach $12.50 an hour by 2021, and then will increase to $15 […]
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Can Cuomo put all the budget pieces together?
$15 minimum wage, paid family leave, ethics reform.
Can Governor Cuomo put it all together?
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Cuomo calls for significant investment in infrastructure
Governor Andrew Cuomo just wrapped up his State of the State speech and budget presentation. The address was something of a shotgun blast of proposals: a high-level overview that touched on everything from tourism promotions to criminal justice reforms. He appealed to the image many New Yorkers’ have of themselves: that we persevere through tough […]
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Cuomo restarts the fight for $15
Governor Andrew Cuomo will set the tone for this year’s legislative session in Albany when he gives his combined State of the State and budget address on Wednesday, January 13. At the top of his list: a true, statewide, cross-industry $15 an hour minimum wage. Approximately 2.4 million New Yorkers — a quarter of the […]
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Why winning the Fight for $15 is essential
The argument that a substantial increase in the minimum wage is a “job killer” has no basis in fact.
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State board will examine fast food wages
The state’s labor commissioner will convene a wage board to look into the pay in New York’s fast food industry. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the plan yesterday in a New York Times editorial. The State Labor Department has the power to convene wage boards to recommend minimum wages for specific industries, as long as an […]
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Group wary of McDonald’s benefits plan
For a long time, McDonald’s has been synonymous with minimum-wage work. That doesn’t mean that every worker at every McDonald’s makes minimum wage, but a lot of them do, particularly starting employees. McDonald’s corporate office apparently wants to get away from that image. Yesterday, it announced it’s going to give workers starting pay that’s $1 […]
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Groups target sub-minimum wage for tipped restaurant workers
In New York, restaurants do not have to pay tipped workers the full $8 an hour minimum wage. Instead, they can pay a much lower base rate — somewhere between $4.90 and $5.65 an hour depending on the job and the employer — but the employer has to make up the difference if the worker’s […]
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Fast food fight for $15
As a manager in training at the Irondequoit Wendy’s, Kim Ramos makes $8 an hour, which is New York’s minimum wage. When she advances to manager, she’ll make around $9 or $10 an hour. But even then she says she’ll struggle to make ends meet. Ramos lives with her girlfriend, who has two children and […]
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Legislators wrap up the state budget
The state budget is done, save the governor’s signature on the final legislation. Late last night — or early this morning, to get all technical about it — the Assembly passed the last of the budget bills. The Senate passed the legislation earlier this week. Once Governor Andrew Cuomo signs the legislation, New York will […]
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Lawmakers may have minimum wage deal
Statewide media organizations are reporting that state legislative leaders — what we New Yorkers used to call the “three men in a room” but now because of the power-sharing agreement in the Senate is actually the “four men in a room” — have reached an agreement to raise the minimum wage. A Bloomberg News article […]
