Under a mark-to-market concept, police would be ticketing these slow drivers for going below the minimum speed.
In short order, we were pulled over again and told that we were driving below the minimum speed.
Mr Phiri earns below the minimum wage and the couple often don't have enough money to buy clothes.
Credit card rates can be increased for future purchases if you pay late or below the minimum required payment.
This would mean hundreds more schools being brought below the minimum level.
Ally Financial was the only bank to fall below the minimum capital hurdle of a 5% capital buffer required to pass the test.
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They work hard, and they can be paid at or below the minimum wage, especially if they are undocumented, as many may be.
If you pay below the minimum plateau, the credit card company will treat you as if you paid nothing and apply penalties and delinquency.
The altitude at which the co-pilot handed control of the plane to his colleague was below the minimum altitude considered safe to continue final descent.
Thirty people fell off the list, either because their net worth dropped below the minimum or because their fortunes were reclassified as belonging to families.
This is not without risk either, as a stock could fall below the minimum price you want to sell at without your order being executed.
The Department of Labor concluded that the first minimum wage, 25 cents per hour in 1938, cost the jobs of 30, 000 to 50, 000 of the 300, 000 workers who were covered and had previously earned below the minimum.
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It is estimated that less than 15% of the total increase in wages resulting from an increase in the minimum will go to people below the poverty line and less than a third of those receiving the minimum wage are families below the poverty line.
Together, these 3.8 million workers with wages at or below the Federal minimum made up 5.2 percent of all the hourly-paid workers who comprise 59.1 percent of the entire wage and salary workforce.
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The best argument for a small disincentive impact is that the present minimum is below the prevailing market wage for most workers.
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One example often brought up is Links Island, a maritime company whose stock the Singapore Exchange said had been "cornered" (reducing the free float below the required 10% minimum) during a period when the value of the stock rose fourfold in four months after its IPO in April 2000.
Other elements central to the negotiation that would impact middle income earners, mainly the extension of Bush era tax cuts for incomes below the border, patching the alternative minimum tax, and the potential loss in the payroll tax cut, suggest that the economic situation of the middle class as a result of the fiscal reorganization will remain the status quo at best.
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Even with the tax relief we put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line.
The SEC will consider whistleblower culpability in decreasing the amount of any award, and may seek to negotiate awards below the 10% statutory minimum in settling any enforcement action against a whistleblower.
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The UKNC has set a UK deadline for applying for each of the UNESCO accolades listed below that is a minimum of three weeks prior to the official UNESCO deadline.
The fact that their benchmark rates are well below their minimum payout has been viewed as a negative and thus, the market is pricing them to provide yields comparable to fixed rate issues.
The People, Companies and Organizations below, have agreed to offer no less than the minimum state wages to all their employees and to abide by the laws set forth by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Below is a plot of the historic minimum wage and the percent of all 16-19 year old individuals in the population that have a job.
That of course refers to the old minimum wage of course: but there were about 1.9 million workers, or about 2.5 % of all hourly paid workers, who got the minimum wage or below.
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Under the scheme, if a bank's capital falls below 8% of its risk assets, the recommended minimum for institutions doing business abroad, the state would either lend money to it, buy its shares - or nationalize it.
The WMO reported that the seasonal minimum, reached on September 9, was 35% below the 1979-2000 average and the second-lowest on record with both the Northwest and Northeast passages ice free for periods during the summer.
Until recently, there was no national minimum wage in China, and local minimum wages were typically below the prevailing market wage so as not to destroy jobs and growth.
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Today, a family with two kids that works hard and relies on a minimum wage salary still lives below the poverty line.
The report said there was "a good standard in most areas", although "sometimes the prison was operating at or below minimum staffing levels".
In a stressed scenario, Morgan Stanley ( MS) and Goldman Sachs ( GS) would have capital ratios below 6.0%, but above the minimum 5.0% threshold.
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