Wage Board

A new movement in New York to raise fast-food employees’ minimum wage rate has been taking momentum in the last few months. New York City’s Mayor de Blasio is among the supporters of raising the minimum wage of these employees to $15.00 per hour.   The state labor commissioner has called a wage board to Read more

The state of New York increased the general minimum wage rate in a series of three annual increments starting in 2013; as a result, a Wage Board was appointed to investigate and recommend any changes to service employees’ minimum wage. On February 24, 2015, the Acting Commissioner of the New York Department of Labor adopted Read more