Suffolk bill would end day-care living wage fund
Quick ReadHearing will focus on whether to continue the Living Wage Contingency Fund, which helps day-care providers with payrolls.
Photo credit: iStock | The salaries of day-care workers in Suffolk are under discussion in the Legislature. (Undated)
A proposal to end a Suffolk County fund chiefly aimed at helping child care providers meet the county's living wage requirements is headed for a public hearing Tuesday, even as the legislator who brought up the idea says he's open to compromise.
Legis. Tom Cilmi's legislation, introduced last month, would end the Living Wage Contingency Fund, which started in 2003 after the county created...
