NY board backs $15 minimum wage hike for fast-food workers; Gov. Cuomo expected to OK increase

U.S. News & World Report ^ | 07/22/2015 | David Klepper

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NEW YORK (AP) — Fast-food workers in New York state would see a super-sized raise under a plan to phase in a $15 minimum wage — the first time a state has singled out a particular industry for such an increase.

The hike, approved Wednesday by the state Wage Board, would increase gradually over three years in New York City and six years for the rest of the state. It would apply to employees at any fast-food restaurant with 30 or more locations, impacting an estimated 200,000 workers.

"You cannot live and support a family on $18,000 a year in the state of New York — period," Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose administration must approve the idea, said at a Manhattan rally celebrating the proposal. "This is just the beginning. We will not stop until we reach true economic justice."

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Of course, the überlibs never want to admit that rolling back all those taxes and regulations might result in dollars going much further than under their current draconian regime. Never mind being stupid enough to push fracking out of the state.

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So now they’ll split the company into subsidiaries with no more than 30 locations each.

That was my thought. How does this apply to franchisees, who may each only own one or five or twenty locations?