wage legislation

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• wage and salary — ▪ economics Introduction       income derived from human labour. Technically, wages and salaries cover all compensation made to employees for either physical or mental work, but they do not represent the income of the self employed. Labour costs… …   Universalium

• Wage slavery — is a term first coined by the Lowell Mill Girls in 1836, [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=YXT kSv1btIC pg=PA87 lpg=PA87 dq=lowell+%22wage+slavery%22 source=web ots=WsT3bkI 0G sig=w7N0JGBskFiUHReS 00amVMNaPY hl=en Artisans Into Workers: Labor… …   Wikipedia

• Wage — Wage, n. [OF. wage, gage, guarantee, engagement. See {Wage}, v. t. ] [1913 Webster] 1. That which is staked or ventured; that for which one incurs risk or danger; prize; gage. [Obs.] That warlike wage. Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. That for which… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• legislation — le‧gis‧la‧tion [ˌledʒˈsleɪʆn] noun [uncountable] LAW 1. a law or set of laws: • Under the new legislation, employers will be required to offer up to 12 weeks of paid sick leave per year. • He introduced legislation to increase the minimum wage …   Financial and business terms

• wage theory — ▪ economics       portion of economic theory that attempts to explain the determination of the payment of labour.       A brief treatment of wage theory follows. For full treatment, see wage and salary.       The subsistence theory of wages,… …   Universalium

• 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 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 — the lowest wage payable to employees in general or to designated employees as fixed by law or by union agreement. [1855 60] * * * Wage rate established by collective bargaining or by government regulation, specifying the lowest rate at which… …   Universalium

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

• Labour and Labour Legislation — • Labour is work done by mind or body either partly or wholly for the purpose of producing utilities Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Labour and Labour Legislation     Labour and Labour Legislation …   Catholic encyclopedia

• 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