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Minimum wage

Three other possible reasons minimum wages do not affect employment were suggested by Alan Blinder: higher wages may reduce turnover, and hence training costs; raising the minimum wage may "render moot" the potential problem of recruiting workers at a higher wage than current workers; and minimum wage workers might represent such a small proportion of a business's cost that the increase is too small to matter.


Club de l'Horloge

Since 1990, the Club de l'Horloge awards each year the "Lysenko Prize" to an author or person who "has contributed the most to scientific and historical misinformation, using ideological methods and arguments." Daniel Cohn-Bendit won the prize in 2002 "for his exceptional contribution to the euro campaign," the late John Kenneth Galbraith in 1994 for "his defense of the minimum wage and socialist fight against unemployment."

Fish, Food and Allied Workers Union

It was organized in 1970 as the Fishermen's Union by Father Desmond McGrath and Richard Cashin in order to organize fishplant workers who, at the time, were exempt from the province's minimum wage and were thus paid sub-minimum wages.

Ngwane National Liberatory Congress

Golden Highlanders were sent by the British Army in the early sixties due to pressure of the party’s protest actions in demanding political reforms for an Independent state and class struggle for a minimum wage.

Polly Toynbee

Following in the footsteps of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed (2001), she published in 2003 Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain about an experimental period voluntarily living on the minimum wage, which was £4.10 per hour at the time.

Three O'Clock Lobby

Since free space was available to the group in the OJJS offices in Lansing, the amount proved to be excessive, even though staff were always paid ten cents an hour over the minimum wage.

Trade Boards Act 1918

The Trade Boards Act 1918 (c 32) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that heavily shaped the post-World War I system of UK labour law, particularly regarding collective bargaining and the establishment of minimum wages.

United States Senate election in New Jersey, 1996

Like other Democratic candidates around the country, Torricelli tried to portray "Zig-Zag Zimmer" as a clone of House Speaker Newt Gingrich and flip flopping on his positions on issues like Medicare, gun control and an increase in the minimum wage during the campaign.


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Anne Begg

In June 2011, Begg crossed swords with Philip Davies, Conservative MP for Shipley, over the issue of disabled people being allowed to work for less than minimum wage if they so choose in order to establish themselves in employment.

Fair Labor Standards Act

However, the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 (PL 104-188), which provided the minimum-wage increase, also detached tipped employees from future minimum-wage increases.

Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007

The minimum wage was passed by the House and the Senate on May 24, 2007 as part of HR 2206, the supplemental aid to the Iraq War.

Manitoba Liberal Party

The Norris Liberals introduced temperance laws, votes for women, workers compensation, and the minimum wage.

Minimum wage in the United States

Minimum wage indexing also takes place each year in Florida, San Francisco, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Nanhai District

In May 2010, 2,000 workers at a Honda transmission plant went on strike in the Nanhai district.The trigger was a rise of the legal local minimum wage from $123 to $147, announced by the city government May 1 in response to rapidly rising costs of living.

Norwegian Long Haul

The airline claims the average salary is 15000 NOK a month but on the other hand, a neutral source, the public service broadcaster NRK have calculated it to be about 9800 NOK a month, which still is far lower than the minimum wage in Norway.

The Servile State

Among these he includes minimum wage laws, employers liability laws, the Insurance Act, and compulsory arbitration.

Un Dia De Octubre

The group has visited several municipalities, at the opening concert for the Rock for Peace Festival, as well as at bars and private parties in Albuquerque and El Paso, Texas, the anniversary of Burger King in Phoenix, also appearing at the Hard Rock Cafe in Guadalajara, as well as the Pemex Pyramid Ska Festival (sharing the stage with minimum wage and Panteón Rococó) in Mexico City).