By David Klepper
Albany, New York (AP) - The New York minimum wage is $ 8 to $ 8.75 per hour increase on Wednesday to pay what an increase of 700,000 workers.
The state is one of several increasing the minimum wage in the new year, with an increase with effect from January 1, Connecticut, Rhode Iceland, USA, Florida, and other states.
New York lawmakers have to pay the increase in 2013 as part of a series of measures to $ 9 until 31 December 2015.
It might also increase a minimum of $ 10.10 per hour, if the legislature approved a further increase of the legislature in 2015 supporters of a minimum wage increase to demand and wants cities like New York give the authority to increase more.
But opponents say another wage increase could face rising labor costs and incentives for employers cut jobs to convert.
Fall further increases in the Legislature last year to a halt when they encountered the opposition of Republicans in the Senate. The Republican Party won two additional seats in the Senate elections in the fall, but proponents of a higher minimum wage took a valuable ally in the Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo, who agreed a higher minimum support during his successful re-election campaign.
"There is no doubt that we have the debate," said Ken Pokalsky, Vice-President of the State Council Affairs in New York, a group that supports Cuomo, but in exchange for the minimum wage. "The minimum wage increases, we do not like to do, what will people do. We did not agree with the idea that the means to produce jobs better paying job is requiring a law to adopt people to pay more I'd market beat. "
To Arecelly Cantos, however, a higher minimum wage would allow him to work fewer hours, better shelter or less are worried about how to pay the bills. Currently, the 27-year-old Queens resident working two jobs to make ends meet customer service.
The increase to 8.75 $, he said, is "better than nothing".
"New York is one of the highest costs of living in the country, but with such low wages, it is very difficult to get out," he told The Associated Press by a Spanish translator. "I have all the time to work. I have no days off. It affected my life."
The Cuomo administration is also considering raising the minimum wage for waiters, busboys and other workers who are tips that can be paid below the minimum wage receive if their advice makes the difference. It is expected that a recommendation to the commissioner of labor Cuomo February issue a decision in state committees content.
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