How to Use subminimum in a Sentence

subminimum

adjective

• The very idea of a subminimum wage is a racist holdover from the era of slavery.
  — Adrian Boafo, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2024
• If the subminimum wage is low, your tip will help the employee make a livable wage.
  — Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
• Instead, they’re only required to pay subminimum wage, which varies from state to state.
  — Emma Janssen, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2024
• The plan also would eliminate a youth subminimum wage that allows businesses to pay teens less during the first 90 days of work.
  — Allison Prang, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2021
• That clause would allow Florida to set a subminimum wage as low as $4.25 an hour, the same as the federal youth minimum wage.
  — Caroline Glenn, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Nov. 2021
• Recently, the city of Chicago raised its minimum wage to $15 an hour and its subminimum wage to $9 an hour, the latter a win for restauranteurs like Williams.
  — Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 3 July 2021
• Workers are no longer willing to work for subminimum wages, and hundreds of employers have raised wages to recruit staff.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2021
• Part of the reason that tipped workers are paid so poorly is that the federal government only guarantees them a subminimum wage of $2.13 per hour.
  — Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 13 Aug. 2024
• Seven states have already fully done, with more in the process of increasing or entirely phasing out their subminimum wages.
  — Kate Bahn, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• These bills include proposals to raise kids’ wages above the subminimum wage, restrict working hours, and ban work in some hazardous environments.
  — Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 1 July 2024
• Advocates for low-wage earners have been fighting to get rid of this subminimum wage — with some success at the state level, where a handful of states and Washington, D.C., have eliminated it.
  — Emily Peck, Axios, 25 July 2024
• The association has spent decades fighting increases to the minimum wage at the federal and state levels, as well as the subminimum wage paid to tipped workers like waiters.
  — Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• The solution is not to continue allowing a subminimum wage but to build a business model that does not make the exploitation of employees central to its success.
  — Elena Soderblom, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
• What's more, federal law still allows US employers to pay subminimum wages to nearly a million workers.
  — Gina Cummings For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• However, none of these efforts are influenced by the existence of subminimum wage.
  — Star Tribune, 31 July 2021
• The rising gap between executive pay and employees’ wages is a good place to start, particularly in one of the few industries where subminimum wages are allowed.
  — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 15 Dec. 2022
• At least 14 states have banned subminimum wages, and advocates are ramping up pressure on the federal government to repeal the more than 80-year-old law authorizing them nationwide.
  — Madison Hopkins, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2022
• Forty-eight of her bills have passed, including those that require a review of every suspicious child death, ban subminimum wages for people with disabilities, and require the state to come up with a plan to deal with increasing cases of dementia.
  — Jeffrey Collins, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2024
• That can be difficult to find, as the U.S. Department of Labor allows businesses to pay subminimum wage to employees with disabilities.
  — Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2023
• Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, which advocates to end subminimum wage policies, encourages customers to tip.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 17 Dec. 2022
• According to law, establishments that pay a subminimum wage must make up the difference between an employee’s earnings — wage plus tips — and the state’s regular minimum wage.
  — Tara Nurin, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• This includes youth workers and workers with disabilities who currently make subminimum wage.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
• At least 16 states have eliminated the subminimum wage, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2024
• But, in their determination to prepare students for employment, many schools, like other institutions at the time, came to resemble sweatshops, making blind children spin wool and grind tobacco for subminimum wages.
  — Andrew Leland, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
• Missouri, however, does little to help sheltered workshop employees make that move — even though getting disabled workers ready for the regular workforce is the goal behind the federal law authorizing subminimum wages.
  — Madison Hopkins, ProPublica, 19 Nov. 2022
• That subminimum wage remains in effect, and continues to be a source of economic discrimination against disabled workers employed by corporations like Goodwill, Walmart, and others.
  — Kim Kelly, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
• Although, her plan would also see the federal government eliminating subminimum wages.
  — William Gavin, Quartz, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024