minimum wage
noun
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: the lowest wage paid or permitted to be paid
specifically
: a wage fixed by legal authority or by contract as the least that may be paid either to employed persons generally or to a particular category of employed persons
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Congress will vote on a bill to raise the minimum wage.
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Cockburn said Saudi Arabia would need a vast number of migrant workers to deliver its World Cup ambitions in a country which has neither established a minimum wage for non-citizens nor introduced measures to prevent worker deaths.
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Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
Sign up Other tax rises include a rise in capital gains tax from 10% to 18% for basic rate taxpayers and 20% to 24% for higher earners, as well as a national insurance hike for employers and a higher national minimum wage.
—Marc Shoffman, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Voters in Orange County weighed in on several key races that ended with the close of polls Tuesday, Nov. 5, from a statewide ballot measure about the minimum wage to congressional races that could determine control of the House of Representatives to local races throughout the county.
—Staff Report, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024
Early results showed Glendale voters widely rejecting Proposition 499, which sought to give hospitality workers a $20-an-hour minimum wage.
—Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
Sign up Other tax rises include a rise in capital gains tax from 10% to 18% for basic rate taxpayers and 20% to 24% for higher earners, as well as a national insurance hike for employers and a higher national minimum wage.
—Marc Shoffman, theweek, 6 Nov. 2024
Voters in Orange County weighed in on several key races that ended with the close of polls Tuesday, Nov. 5, from a statewide ballot measure about the minimum wage to congressional races that could determine control of the House of Representatives to local races throughout the county.
—Staff Report, Orange County Register, 5 Nov. 2024
Early results showed Glendale voters widely rejecting Proposition 499, which sought to give hospitality workers a $20-an-hour minimum wage.
—Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Minimum wage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minimum%20wage. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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