as New York becomes the nation's first city to mandate a minimum wage for the app-based restaurant employees.Delivery apps would be required to pay their workers a minimum of $17.96 per hour plus tips by July 12, rising to $19.96 per hour by 2025. After that, the pay will be indexed...
Pre-Colonial History Like all of what is now modern-day America, pre-1600 New York was inhabited by Native American tribes. Humans are first recorded to have been present in the area 9,000 years ago. It is thought they then abandoned the area due to a warming climate leading to the dec...
New York boasts a gambling history dating to the mid-1800s. It was the first to ban lotteries constitutionally. It would eventually return in 1967, over a century later, when New Yorkers voted to approve an amendment that would allow the state to run a government-sanctioned lottery. As a ...
As a result, Plaintiffs will receive compensation based on hours worked and their employment history. The case was settled for a total of $550,000. Read More Pugh v. NYC Clayton Pugh, a school bus driver in New York, sustained painful injuries after he was violently struck by another ...
History, in its wisdom, in its terror, Has brought us to this place To this impossible mathematical Equation where we cannot solve The future with the past, With blood or blame or bombs Or unsustainable slogans. I see a new future is possible there. ...
Reading New York Poker Through the Years Examining the history of online poker in New York is most certainly an entertaining and informative read.Sen. Addabbo’s latest billisn’t just one in a string of many. It’s a well-balanced read of the history, as New York has tried to pass it...
…New York spends more than $8 billion a year on tax incentives and grants to attract and retain businesses in the high-tax state, and advocates of the measure have for years sought to extend the largesse to the newspaper and local TV industry. The late addition to the $237 billion budge...
The New York Sire Stakes is the state's premier harness racing program designed to promote the breeding, buying and racing of standardbred horses in New York State. Administered by the Agriculture & New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund, the New York Sire Stakes is the nation's oldes...
New York City Salary History Ban For NYC employers with more than 11 employees, the minimum wage will remain at $15.00. For employers with 10 or fewer employees, minimum wage will increase from $13.50 to $15.00. Minimum wage will increase to $13.00 for employees in Long Island and Westchest...
The New Year brings with it a host of new laws for Empire State residents. Here are nearly 20 that may impact you in 2022. Minimum Wage Increase Zerbor Minimum Wage Increase The minimum wage will increase to $13.20 for most of New York State. The minimum wage is higher in Westchester...