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Minimum wage   /mˈɪnəməm weɪdʒ/   Listen
Minimum wage

noun
1.
The lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law.





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"Minimum wage" Quotes from Famous Books



... wholesome kinds of people, and that it is oppressive and likely to rob the State of good citizens to render parentage burthensome, and to surround it with penalties. But that directs our attention to a second scheme of expedients which have crystallized about the expression, the Minimum Wage. The cardinal idea of this group of expedients is this, that it is unjust and cruel in the present and detrimental to the future of the world to let any one be fully employed at a rate of payment at which a wholesome, healthy, and, ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells
... stop? The first thing you know, the members of the Metropolitan Club will be going on strike for a minimum of six hundred sturgeon eggs in a ten-dollar portion of fresh Astrakhan caviar, and the Amalgamated Bank Presidents of America, New York Local No. 1, will be walking out in a body for a minimum wage of fifty thousand dollars a year, with a maximum working year ...
— Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things • Montague Glass
... will find all your pet reforms depend upon it, when you come to work them out," he said. "You can't have a minimum wage ...
— All Roads Lead to Calvary • Jerome K. Jerome
... not have tried to do this. Since then, in whatever field of social work I have been I have found this ability valuable, and I developed enough skill at it to handle the investigation into wages of the Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission without other training. I am very grateful to you for this bit of technical training for which I would never have taken ...
— The Story of Wellesley • Florence Converse
... indifference has prevented my studying—except in the most superficial manner—the single tax, free trade and protection, the minimum wage, the recall, referendum, or any other of the present much-mooted questions. How is this possible? The only answer I can give is that I have confined my mental activities entirely to making my legal practice as lucrative as possible. I have taken things as I found them and put ...
— The "Goldfish" • Arthur Train


Words linked to "Minimum wage" :   earnings, wage, pay, salary, remuneration


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