By minimum wage is to be understood, according to its advocates, not the wage that will support a single man, but one that will support a man, wife, and three or four children.
The compulsory payment of a minimum wage to be fixed by a Minimum Wage Commission at an amount which will insure to the working woman a proper standard of health, comfort and efficiency.
Applying these principles to the labour situation, we find that among the remedies proposed the primacy must be accorded to a minimum wage.
While he looks with some sympathy upon the demand for a minimum wage of two dollars per day, he contends that unless the labourer really earns that amount, some other man will be paid less than he earns, "which would be unjust.
Fixing a minimum wage in accordance with the rules of the labor unions; formation of public loan and credit system; eight-hour day.
Fixing of a minimum wage by the public authorities on the proposition of the Agricultural Courts.
Scales of rates forming a minimum wage to be fixed by agreement between municipalities and the working-class corporations of industry, commerce, and agriculture.
Collier, "Minimum Wage Legislation in Australasia," Fourth Report of the Factory Investigation Commission, N.
It represents the desire to do away with the great variety of wage rates for the same work which frequently exists, and the substitution therefor of a minimum wage rate.
The health of our economy and its maintenance at high levels further require that the minimum wage fixed by law should be raised to at least 75 cents an hour.
Minimum Wage The goal of building the middle class and shrinking the underclass is also why I believe that you should raise the minimum wage.
I also recommend that many others, at present excluded, be given the protection of a minimum wage.
At the present time the Fair Labor Standards Act prescribes a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour for those workers who are covered by the act.
In spite of the rapid spread of minimum wage legislation in this country, the principle has met with considerable opposition.
A minimum wagelaw is one which specifies that in certain occupations laborers may not be paid less than a stipulated wage.
A national movement was expected for a minimum wage and an eight hours' day for surface workers about mines, which might lead to local strikes, and ultimately to a general stoppage.
Independent attempts were made to set up a minimum wage, directly and through wages-boards (Nos.
Report of the Massachusetts Commission on Minimum Wage Boards.
In this relation the establishment of a minimum wage is analogous to the restriction of hours or the provision for safety and health secured by Factory Legislation, and carries forward the provision for a minimum standard of life.
In the explanation sent out it was shown that each scale would carry a minimum wage.
Immediately they decided to ask for a scale with a minimum wage, and that the variations should be two and one and a half per cent.
Throughout all the Ford industries we now have a minimum wage of six dollars a day; we used to have a minimum of five dollars; before that we paid whatever it was necessary to pay.
We now have a minimum wage of six dollars a day paid without reservation.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minimum wage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
