State lawmakers want the company employing the husband of Gov. Kathy Hochul to pay its workers more – or risk losing any chance at lucrative contracts in the new Buffalo Bills stadium that she foisted on state and local taxpayers to the tune of $850 million.
New York’s First Gentleman Bill Hochul is senior vice president and general counsel at Delaware North, a company that manages “concessions, premium dining and retail services” at the current Bills stadium.
The sprawling company also operates a range of businesses on four continents, including a restaurant group that oversees food services at locations like the Empire State Building and the Metropolitan Opera, according to the company website.
Newly introduced legislation would require any company that wants business at publicly-supported professional sports facilities to pay workers at restaurant subsidiaries the full minimum wage rather than the tipped wage allowed by state law.
“We still have a two-tiered minimum wage system … one place to start [changing things] is with this stadium, which is being financed by public money, so that we’re not using public tax dollars to finance sub minimum wages,” state Sen. Jabari Brisport (D-Brooklyn) told The Post.
Food service workers in New York City earn as little as $10 per hour before tips while their counterparts upstate make even less.
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