| Employers must keep records for at least three years to show that workers were paid the national minimum wage. |
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| Of course, those poor people who were lucky enough to have jobs at the minimum wage would now be earning lower wages. |
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| We want the government to set the price of goods and guarantee a minimum wage so as not to put profits above the needs of the people. |
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| Rothbard is still correct in maintaining that Mises has no warrant for assuming what the purposes are of those who recommend the minimum wage. |
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| No, Blair's Britain had a minimum wage, a New Deal for the unemployed and spent serious money on health and education. |
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| His job at Wal-Mart is putting him through college and he makes good money for a kid his age, well above the minimum wage. |
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| Its only commitments, expressed with imprecision, were to statutory recognition, a minimum wage and adhesion to the EU Social Chapter. |
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| Attempting to cure poverty by increasing the minimum wage is thus somewhat recursive. |
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| The higher minimum wage will induce some employers to reduce their workforces, others to change nonwage terms of the contract. |
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| Simply raise the minimum wage for staff in bars or other workplaces that have smokers. |
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| All the agencies have Chinese signs explaining the concept of the minimum wage law. |
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| A sub-postmistress has won a year-long battle to be paid the minimum wage by the Post Office in a decision set to cost millions. |
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| I got a job in the post office and actually worked for minimum wage in New York for a while to try to organize Latino workers. |
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| A toxic combination of part-time, minimum wage, zero-hours working is spreading across the country. |
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| She worked 45 years in a laundromat, making minimum wage, and still managed to send her kids to parochial school. |
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| The minimum wage differs from one province to another due to differing price indexes and average per capita income. |
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| It's also the third, following Washington and Oregon, to index its minimum wage to inflation. |
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| Does anyone know why the minimum wage is not indexed to either inflation or wage growth, like social security? |
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| Florida's new minimum wage is indexed to inflation, so the state will readjust the minimum every fall. |
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| The second answer is that raising the minimum wage will have a ripple effect. |
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| However, because of the ripple effect, employers who do not pay the minimum wage still have a considerable stake in any changes to that wage. |
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| In the past the minimum wage never applied to apprentices who were employed under the Apprenticeship Act. |
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| Doctors' pretax starting salary of 800 litas a month is less than double the 450 litas minimum wage. |
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| The coalfields have given way to unemployment queues, night watchmen's sheds and minimum wage component assembly jobs. |
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| The party also proposed that the state assume responsibility for full employment based on a minimum wage related to the cost of living. |
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| Reportedly the salary for a new employee is double the minimum wage set by the government. |
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| He also promised to immediately exempt minimum wage earners from tax and give them a rebate for this year. |
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| He would be delighted to make the taxi squad, drawing a minimum wage and scrimmaging against the varsity during the week. |
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| Then don't forget the minimum wage, lone parent support and maternity and paternity arrangements. |
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| She worked in a bar for minimum wage and practically lived off of the measly tips she made. |
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| Well at least we don't live in a meritocracy that says that people with degrees should earn more than minimum wage. |
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| We are demanding that the minimum wage at Mabor be increased from 630,000 meticais to 1.5 million meticais a month. |
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| This practice is actually enshrined in the rules governing the national minimum wage. |
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| Like the minimum wage, the national agreement may put a floor under wage increases, but nothing more. |
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| We have introduced not only tax credits but also raised the national minimum wage. |
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| It relates to past workers who in the past had qualified for the national minimum wage. |
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| It is because the claimant is over 26 that she is said to qualify for the minimum wage. |
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| It will offer jobs at the national minimum wage and with the same rights as permanent employees. |
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| Miners voted in favour of a national strike for a minimum wage, and the strike was massively successful. |
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| Should she get a job, she will not be eligible for the minimum wage because young people are deemed not to deserve it. |
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| Garlands pays the minimum wage, gives no shift bonuses or sick pay, offers no pension provisions and does not allow trade union representation. |
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| These provisions leave some without sick pay, others without pensions, and all on wages that just hover above the minimum wage. |
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| Up to 170,000 homeworkers could get more money under new minimum wage regulations. |
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| It unambiguously raises the effective cost of employment for minimum wage jobs. |
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| It is tough, skilled work, but they earn little more than the minimum wage. |
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| Putting up the minimum wage and increasing unemployment benefit are not the way ahead. |
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| Workers were paid a form of piece rate, which was a minimum wage plus a bonus for output over a certain level. |
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| My thoughts are with the families of the admin assistants and cleaners killed in the towers who slog away for minimum wage. |
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| He backs an increase in the minimum wage and expanded health coverage for the uninsured. |
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| Regular uprates are important to maintain the real value of a minimum wage. |
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| Instead of a loss of minimum wage jobs, there has actually been an uptick in the number of such positions. |
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| Then there is the minimum wage, the assault on child poverty and a veritable revolution in constitutional affairs. |
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| He wants me to sell his designs and, in turn, I'll get a cut of the profits, as well as a basic minimum wage. |
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| Sometimes I think it is useless to debate the economic effects of decisions on minimum wage, inheritance taxes, progressive taxation, etc. |
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| A meaningful minimum wage, reinforced by progressive taxation on high earners, could be a start. |
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| It is only those workers whose market wage is below the minimum wage who are placed in employment jeopardy. |
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| They have opposed every attempt to raise the minimum wage over the past two generations. |
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| In fact, of the 13 states that exceeded the federal minimum wage in 2003, seven outperformed the rest of the country in job creation. |
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| The defense, where many players are working for the NFL's minimum wage, has overachieved. |
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| Yet trying to hike the minimum wage always sparks a monumental battle in Washington. |
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| After all, they are hiring themselves out on a daily basis for minimum wage to perform defined short-term jobs as unskilled manual laborers. |
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| Workers on the lower end can struggle on less than minimum wage with no overtime or benefits. |
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| The researchers will also be giving information and support to homeworkers who want to try to fight for their right to the minimum wage. |
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| Well the problem with the minimum wage and Mr Howard is that Mr Howard is the chief chiseller. |
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| The poets have donated what ever amount they can afford, oftentimes coming from minimum wage paychecks in truly selfless gestures. |
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| Many factories illegally disregard the minimum wage and frequently pay their laborers much less. |
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| He has started to roll out a minimum pension for all Peruvians over age 65 and plans to raise the minimum wage a second time. |
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| In February 1931 the government agreed to some of the improvements that workers had asked for, for example a minimum wage of five pesetas. |
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| He also wants to set minimum wage increases in line with inflation if he gets in office. |
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| The government in Hong Kong has set a minimum wage level for the Filipinas. |
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| Our laughably low minimum wage consigns thousands of hard-working Ontarians to unnecessary poverty. |
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| The contributory income of 400,000 employed was equal to the minimum wage, she said. |
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| I earn above minimum wage, but it makes no difference, as the cost of living in this country is simply beyond my means. |
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| And so this week the trade unions were able to place full-page newspaper advert calling, amongst other things, for a higher minimum wage. |
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| This will be the first year of operation of the scheme providing for pupils to be paid a minimum wage during their pupillage. |
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| When I look back it disgusts me that I was on so little money just because I was too young to qualify for the minimum wage. |
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| Every Republican administration since Reagan has doggedly opposed minimum wage increases. |
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| The maximum period of exemption from paying the minimum wage is one year and the minimum is three months. |
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| A portion of the proposed increase would thus be compensating for the continuing real decline in the minimum wage. |
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| New Labour exempted agricultural workers from the minimum wage. |
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| I'm still stuck at the same dead-end job making minimum wage. |
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| Given the dire employment situation in the Detroit area, Moo Cluck Moo could easily have staffed up paying minimum wage. |
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| For workers earning minimum wage, one full hour of their after-tax income will now be eaten up just by the cost of commuting to and from their jobs. |
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| A higher minimum wage would help encourage a culture of work and a level playing field for the rising generation. |
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| The idea of raising the minimum wage to a livable number, he said, was one shared by the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. |
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| He should try to recognise the costs of implementing the minimum wage particularly on businesses in labour intensive industries such as the tourism industry. |
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| The minimum wage and income support are profoundly welcome to the poor. |
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| A sharecropping arrangement featured the field hand living in the work camp and working for a minimum wage with a bonus superimposed at the time of harvest. |
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| They say the increased minimum wage, calculated by academics at London University, would provide a better standard of living for families on the breadline. |
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| Even more striking is Novkov's treatment of the United States Supreme Court's opinion in Adkins v. Children's Hospital invalidating a minimum wage law for women. |
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| Labour will increase the minimum wage by 9 per cent year-on-year. |
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| It turns out that prevailing piecework rates worked out to less than the minimum wage, so it's hardly surprising that people didn't want to take them. |
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| Rules governing how those professions were defined should have prevented most workers from being paid less than the minimum wage. |
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| The first describes the threshold for its operation, viz. the officer being of the opinion that a worker who qualifies has not received the national minimum wage. |
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| Riding schools don't receive the rates concessions accorded to agriculture, but employment changes such as the working time directive and minimum wage have increased outlay. |
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| These work projects will pay a minimum of the national minimum wage. |
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| But what if I told you there was another burger chain that purposely pays above the minimum wage? |
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| She has quashed the efforts of municipalities to raise their own minimum wage. |
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| Inching up the minimum wage as a weak backstop is not enough. |
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| Voters there also passed a hike in the state minimum wage, with 53 percent of the vote. |
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| This is likely a lowball number but it has the merit to illustrate the tradeoff that raising the minimum wage requires. |
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| Raising the minimum wage is the least we can do to begin to correct the imbalance. |
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| Both give estimates of how many U.S. workers would benefit from an increase in the minimum wage. |
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| Most people entered the work force through low-level, minimum wage jobs. |
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| The strikers are demanding 7,500 naira as monthly minimum wage but the government has stipulated it only pay the 5,500 naira agreed by the governors of Nigeria's 36 states. |
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| As a result, the inexperienced can find themselves earning well below minimum wage, or abused by underhanded employers. |
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| Absent a minimum wage law, everybody is employable at some price. |
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| Historically, conservatives treated the minimum wage as an affront to free labor and a step on a slippery slope towards statism. |
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| Current and former Oakland Raiderettes sued their team in January, alleging wage theft and failure to meet minimum wage salaries. |
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| Overall, the weight of the empirical evidence supports these essentially conservative arguments for the minimum wage. |
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| He was treated like an immigrant, working for minimum wage, missing his family and having to move on from his musical career. |
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| Conservative columnist Reihan Salam suggested that GOP-backed minimum wage discussions might be feints for appearances only. |
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| The timing too was crass, since the increase coincided with MPs awarding themselves an annual pay rise equal to the thick end of a year's entire minimum wage. |
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| Beltrami believes the minimum wage bill was introduced because it would hurt Republicans no matter what the ballot. |
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| A predictable, inflation-adjusted minimum wage would make business planning easier. |
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| Unz also notes that a higher minimum wage would discourage illegal immigration and boost consumer spending. |
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| His big passion these days is the minimum wage, which he has written about with some regularity. |
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| This is only just above the minimum wage, and isn't worth my while. |
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| There was no minimum wage until the socialist takeover, thicko. |
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| One woman had the brass neck to criticise his Government for presiding over a country where social services were being cut to the bone and the minimum wage never went up. |
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| A few of us battled hard against massed ranks of those claiming that a national minimum wage would destroy the principle of free collective bargaining. |
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| In a stunning non sequitur, he then proposes a set of reforms aimed at raising the absolute position of unskilled workers, such as a higher minimum wage. |
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| However, many countries have minimum wage laws and minimum safety standards. |
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| According to the International Monetary Fund, Denmark has the world's highest minimum wage. |
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| As Denmark has no minimum wage legislation, the high wage floor has been attributed to the power of trade unions. |
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| Talk resumed in the 1970s, but in the 1980s the Thatcher administration made it clear it would not accept a national minimum wage. |
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| Singapore does not have a minimum wage, believing that it would lower its competitiveness. |
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| In February 1997 it told Sir Edward Heath MP to stand down for supporting a national minimum wage. |
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| The Central Valley is the most impoverished, with migrant farm workers making less than minimum wage. |
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| Florida's constitution establishes a state minimum wage that is adjusted for inflation annually. |
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| Perceptions of the government's relief effort as inadequate were aggravated by its refusal to legalize labour unions or introduce a minimum wage. |
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| Nicaragua's minimum wage is among the lowest in the Americas and in the world. |
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| The fair rate is the amount that allows an average worker to be paid the minimum wage per hour if they work at an average rate. |
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| In the United States, the Fair Labor Standards Act requires that all employees, including piece work employees, earn at least the minimum wage. |
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| If a worker earns less than the minimum wage, the employer has to pay the difference. |
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| Meanwhile, several states and cities have jacked up the minimum wage. |
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| Among these he includes minimum wage laws, employers liability laws, the Insurance Act, and compulsory arbitration. |
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| A new provision increased the tip credit and raised the minimum wage for bartenders and waitpersons. |
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| Decent Work for All campaigners say many young workers are caught in a 'vicious circle' of minimum wage and zero hour contract jobs. |
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| The doomsayers claiming jobs will be lost are the same scaremongers who falsely claimed the minimum wage would price workers out of jobs. |
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| A minimum wage is consistent with conservative ideals, for four reasons. |
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| A step forward for the minimum wage increase this afternoon, as the Senate cleared the logjam of the Republican filibuster. |
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| The opposition SDSM political party proposed that the minimum wage in Macedonia should be 11,000 denars. |
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| One agency worker, Ewa Pulik, told us she had worked for the minimum wage in warehouses for department stores. |
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| The information on the prefectural minimum wage was obtained from the Pandect of Minimum Wage Determination, which is published every year. |
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| But the report estimates that at least 250,000 workers are not being paid the legal minimum wage. |
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| Some have also claimed, Emma Rothschild among them, that Smith would have supported a minimum wage, although there is no direct textual evidence supporting the claim. |
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| Wages may be too high because of minimum wage laws or union activity. |
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| Commonly used arguments supporting increases to the minimum wage follow. |
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| Those Burmese lucky enough to have official work registration are still paid as little as half the already depressed official minimum wage in Thailand. |
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| Changes to the minimum wage are based on the nationwide Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers for the 12 months ending each Aug. |
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| But for these advocates, the wins could mean sending a message to state lawmakers who have been unable to garner enough support to raise the minimum wage statewide. |
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| It was the voters who gave Oregon its current minimum wage law. |
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| Alaska's minimum wage was last increased on January 1, 2010 due to June 2009 legislation that called for a wage 50 cents above the federal minimum wage. |
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| Significant drivers of low pay include insecure and precarious work, casualisation, a minimum wage that is not a living wage and a significant pay gap between women and men. |
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| One way to address this two-sided question is to consider how regional differences in prices and wages interact with minimum wage laws in various states. |
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| Four states have minimum wages below the federal level, and five others have set none at all, meaning in all cases that the federal minimum wage applies. |
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| Working for a piece rate does not mean that employers are exempt from paying minimum wage or overtime requirements, which vary among nations and states. |
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| It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage. |
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| Domestic workers often suffer extreme hardship and human rights violations, including payment below the statutory minimum wage with no overtime pay or rest days. |
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| Not paying them the full minimum wage will demotivate younger adults. |
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| In the lawsuit, Bertram alleged that Visions misclassified the exotic dancers as independent contractors so it wouldn't have to pay them minimum wage. |
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| Under the plan, the AFL-CIO and network will pursue minimum wage campaigns, safety at construction sites and legislation to criminalize employers who stiff day laborers. |
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