Sentence examples for minimum wage legislative from inspiring English sources

We devote a quarter of the book to class analysis and call for strengthening labor unions in the United States through substantial increases in the minimum wage, legislative and administrative changes to increase the ability of workers to organize, and the enormous effort needed to unionize the professional and service sectors.

The Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, has made increasing the minimum wage his top legislative priority this year.

In total, ten states and the District of Columbia have enacted minimum wage increases during the 2014 legislative session, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

They are poor because of legislative decisions on the minimum wage and because of the rise of badly paid and poorly benefited service sector jobs.

"I'm proud to sign into law my top priority of the 2016 Legislative session – raising the minimum wage," Governor Kate Brown said in a statement.

Based on a biennial suggestion of the newly introduced minimum wage commission, the minimum wage can be adjusted by a legislative decree of the German Federal Government.

And New Jersey voters are standing with legislative Democrats to raise the state's minimum wage.

Just last week, the only major legislative success this year, an increase in the state minimum wage, was vetoed by the governor.

"God bless you for passing the minimum wage law," the former president told an audience that included some of the legislative leaders who pushed it.

She has drawn up a legislative programme that Middle America can live with, the paper says, "from raising the minimum wage to extending stem-cell research".

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders reached a tentative agreement on Monday to increase the state's minimum wage to $9 over the next three years.