to work for a minimum wage

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• Minimum wage law — is the body of law which prohibits employers from hiring employees or workers for less than a given hourly, daily or monthly minimum wage. More than 90% of all countries have some kind of minimum wage legislation.[1] Until recently, minimum wage… …   Wikipedia

• Minimum wage — A minimum wage is the lowest hourly, daily or monthly remuneration that employers may legally pay to workers. Equivalently, it is the lowest wage at which workers may sell their labour. Although minimum wage laws are in effect in a great many… …   Wikipedia

• Minimum wage history — The history of minimum wage is about the attempts and measures governments have made to introduce a standard amount of periodic pay below which employers could not let their workers fall.In 1824 in Victoria, Australia, an amendment to the… …   Wikipedia

• Minimum wage in Hong Kong — The Legislative Council voted to introduce a minimum wage in Hong Kong in July 2010.[1] The executive branch proposed a minimum wage of HK$28 ( US$3.60) per hour in November 2010, which the Legislative Council voted to accept after much debate in …   Wikipedia

• Minimum wage in the United States — History of the federal minimum wage in real and nominal dollars. As of July 24, 2009 (2009 07 24) …   Wikipedia

• minimum wage laws — Statutes establishing a minimum for the amount of wages to be paid employees in certain industries and lines of work. 31 Am J Rev ed Lab §§ 813 et seq …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• National Minimum Wage Act 1998 — Parliament of the United Kingdom Long title ... Statute book chapter 1998 …   Wikipedia

• Wage — For other uses, see WAGE (disambiguation). A wage is a compensation, usually financial, received by workers in exchange for their labor. Compensation in terms of wages is given to workers and compensation in terms of salary is given to employees …   Wikipedia

• wage — [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 …   Financial and business terms

• Wage 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 …   Wikipedia

• wage — 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… …   Law dictionary