The minimum wage is going up at year’s end throughout New York state.
Within New York City the wage will rise from $9 to $11 per hour, though the increase will be smaller for employees of small businesses. Their wage will increase to $10.50 an hour.
On Long Island and in Westchester County, the minimum wage will go to $10 an hour, and elsewhere in the state it will go to $9.70.
The regionalized, phased-in increases are part of a plan approved by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers earlier this year to gradually raise the minimum wage to $15.
The increases go into effect on the last day of the year.
(AP)
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Get ready in a few months for unemployment numbers to increase. The law of unintended consequences will rear its ugly head.
Are the cleaning ladies going to ask for a raise?
Well there goes my employee he is not worth a 5% raise I will have to let him go. Thanks Cuomo. PS most people that were worth more got more. Now the bottom of the barrel will be on welfare.
I agree with #1. The $1.50-$2.00 increase will effect small businesses and they will lay off employees and the unemployment rate will go up. This big increase is counterproductive. They should make smaller increases as done in the past which won’t hurt the small business bottom line as much.