wage floor

And she may now be convinced that a wage floor will not cost jobs.

Here's one way to start: Let's raise the wage floor.

The wage floor seems not to have cost jobs.

They want the focus to be on improving skills and are worried that a higher wages floor would cost jobs.

Meanwhile, the chancellor plans to cut the tax credit bill even more as the new wage floor takes effect.

Adjusting for inflation, the federal wage floor was highest in 1968.

If there was no repression, we wouldn't need a minimum wage floor or labor laws.

But Democrats were determined to raise the wage floor with no strings attached.

As a result, some labor unions say they want a wage floor incorporated into the immigration reforms.

Yet economic theory allows for the possibility that wage floors can boost both employment and pay.

There have also been cases where workers are paid wages below the minimum wage floor in government funded road and construction projects.

The wage floor of day labor was lowered.

Wage floors prop up the pay of unskilled workers and make services expensive to supply.

Wage floors in America are low by European standards.

Might a wage floor furnish a new foundation?

Academic supporters of wage floors, mainly economists on the left, appealed to this logic.

Legislation to raise the wage floor died last year in Congress, partly because of a dispute over the training wage.

The only rationale for public employees unions to exist is to create wage floors for such workers.

A companion measure for a wage floor of $4.65 an hour over several years is now before the Senate Labor Committee.

For example, they felt that state laws that put in place wage floors and hour ceilings benefited women.

Raise the basic wage floor by setting provincial minimum wages at levels to ensure full time work provides earnings above the poverty line.

Pattern wage floors have constantly been eroding in the airline and meatpacking industries.

Clearly, Oregonians have made the connection between a higher legislated wage floor and the goal of "making work pay" for low-wage workers.

The President wants a lower wage floor and a subminimum training wage unacceptable to Democrats.

The authors said that the challenge for politicians would be how to raise the legal wage floor without harming the UK economy or unemployment.