Not that that has stopped opponents from railing against the minimum wage for decades.
The bag eats encase, is salary OK under minimum wage standard?
Many employers seem to think that by calling a job an internship they may ignore the national minimum wage.
Since Democrats took charge of Congress one year ago, Congresswoman Gillibrand says, they have increased automobile fuel economy standards and raised the minimum wage.
The good and honest things that have traditionally occupied women — like rearing children and keeping husbands in clean shirts — are valued in the open market at somewhere near the minimum wage.
Lower taxes should stimulate the wisest response to high unemployment is to deregulate Labour markets and eschew minimum wages.
Abolish the minimum wage?
Earning only minimum wage, Tom can hardly get by.
IT has been mooted since 1932, but Hong Kong has never had a minimum wage.
Now, wages in Guangdong have started growing again. This month the province raised minimum wage levels by more than 20%.
Before we finish with the topic I should perhaps mention another argument sometimes put forward for fixing a minimum wage rate by statute.
As for such proposals as an eight-hour day, a minimum wage, the right to work, and municipal houses, any serious mention of such classed a man as a fool.
A higher minimum wage!
The minimum wage is going up, adding to the costs of production.
And what we've learned is that in this time of austerity, nothing is sacred including a minimum wage.
These include a substantial hike in the minimum wage, the promotion of stem-cell research (anathema to Mr Bush and the Christian right) and the cutting of subsidies to the oil industry (see article).
Today's consensus, insofar as there is one, seems to be that raising minimum wages has minor negative effects at worst.
From the absolute number of minimum wage standard, the monthly minimum wage standard is the highest in Shanghai, reached 1620 yuan;
In Hangzhou, project internship participants get 672 yuan a month, which is 70 percent of the city's minimum wage, and accident insurance.
Sceptics say Mr Chavez will use the cash on social programmes and on raising the minimum wage so as to shore up his public support ahead of a legislative election in September.
This ruling cancels all state minimum wage laws.
Most threaders, who typically earn minimum wage plus tips at Shapes Brow Bar, learned their craft from family or friends, not formal training programs.
But the Labour market is too rigid: minimum wages are too high and do not allow enough regional variation, and temporary Labour contracts are discouraged.
We will establish a sound mechanism of regular pay raises for workers and strictly enforce the minimum wage system.
What's the minimum wage in this country?
She no longer believes in lining up outside shops for most drops, calculating that the resale profit is often no more than the minimum wage per hour of waiting.
Its goal is to limit working hours, guarantee weekly days off, ensure a minimum wage and protect domestic workers from violent employers.
Wages paid to labourers by the employing unit shall not be lower than the local standards on minimum wages.
This could include wage subsidies for people being trained, a minimum wage differentiated by age, and extended periods of probation for young workers.
This paper explores the impact of the minimum wage on enrollments between 1950 and 2003.
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