minimum wage
41Life Stories for Minimum Wage — Infobox Album | Name = Life Stories for Minimum Wage Type = Album Artist = Cuff the Duke Released = 2002 Recorded = Unknown Genre = Indie Rock/Alt Country Length = 38:29 Label = Hardwood Records Producer = Steve Kreckle and Lorne Hounsell Reviews …
42Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act 1912 — The Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act 1912[1] was an Act of Parliament which gave minimum wage protection to Miners. It was passed in response to strikes over pay which occurred in the same year.[2] See also Liberal reforms References ^ h …
43Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 — An act that raised the federally mandated minimum wage in three increments, eventually fixing the rate at $7.25 per hour in July 2009. The Act amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Category: Employment Law & HR → Employee Rights → Your… …
44national minimum wage — (NMW) A minimum hourly rate of pay set by government, which applies to all workers. The rates set are based on the recommendations of the independent Low Pay Commission. There are three rates; an adult rate for workers aged 22 and over, a… …
45national minimum wage — UK US noun [C] (ABBREVIATION NMW) ECONOMICS ► the lowest amount that employers can legally pay employees in a particular country: »The new national minimum wage aims to lift 300,000 workers and their children out of poverty …
46the federal minimum wage — UK US noun [S] GOVERNMENT, HR ► the lowest amount of money that an employee can earn an hour according to US government laws: »From July 24, 2009 the federal minimum wage increased to $7.25 per hour …
47wage — [weɪdʒ] noun [countable] also wages HUMAN RESOURCES money that someone earns according to the number of hours, days, or weeks that they work, especially money that is paid each week: • The average hourly wage in the industry is $8. • Workers were …
48Wage regulation — refers to attempts by a government to regulate wages paid to citizens.Minimum wageMinimum wage regulation attempts to set an hourly, or other periodic monetary standard for pay at work. A recent example was the U.K. National Minimum Wage Act 1998 …
49wage — n 1: a payment usu. of money for labor or services usu. according to a contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis often used in pl. 2 pl: the share of the national product attributable to labor as a factor in production Merriam… …
50wage level — ➔ level1 * * * wage level UK US noun [C] ECONOMICS ► the amount of money that a particular type of worker or group of people usually earns: »The market dictates what wage levels for various occupations should be. »The state of New Mexico is… …
