Raising the Minimum Wage

Raising the Minimum Wage

(New York, NY) — Minimum wage workers across the tri-state saw a pay raise January 1st.  The minimum wage in New York City, Long Island, and in Westchester County increases to 17-dollars an hour, the second-highest minimum wage in the nation. It goes to 16-dollars across the rest of New York. Employers also have to adjust to scheduled changes to the tip credit, meal credit, uniform allowance and salary exemption thresholds. Minimum wage has rise…