BIG WAGE BILL INCREASE ON WAY FOR NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY AIRPORTS
October 1st, 2018
NEW York and New Jersey airports are to see their combined annual wage bills rise by around USD330 million-a-year over if they paid statutory minimum wages because of a planned pay increase by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. It runs major airports such as JFK, LaGuardia and Newark, and smaller facilities – around 40,000 low wage workers would be affected said a port authority note. It plans to raise hourly minimum pay to USD19 by 2023, above the USD15/hour minimum wage being introduced in New York from January 2019 – port authority minimum pay ...
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