The federal minimum-wage law has always served a symbolic purpose beyond setting a specific number.
If there had never been a minimum-wage law passed -- if, as in the years before 1938, Americans today could be paid as little as employers could get away with -- and if, in 2013, someone in Congress proposed the first law ever that would guarantee workers a minimum wage.
Knowing financial markets might tumble on the news, the Senate reassured them by approving a much-needed new bankruptcy law on the same day as the minimum-wage vote.
When Chairwoman Mary Schaprio hopped from the industry to the SEC, she submitted to the bare-bones minimum disclosure required by law.
The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) wants to create a by-law to set a minimum price.
At a minimum, said Southwestern Law School mass-torts expert Byron Stier, his pay and method of calculating it should be disclosed.
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The law mandated a minimum 25-cent-per-hour wage, in addition to setting the maximum amount of hours most employees could work per week at 44.
In another case, some commissioners wanted to give judges greater discretion in sentencing for residential burglary, which under Illinois law carries a four-year minimum sentence.
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When are we going to get a change in the law so that rent-paying, law-abiding tenants get reasonable notice following repossession (e.g. a minimum of 2 months notice, the same as under Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988)?
At a minimum, both seemed to agree, a new local-government law must be passed so as to give municipalities (including Albanian-dominated ones) the power to raise and spend money freely.
But the United States was built by workers who were guaranteed no minimum wage -- in a country that, until the 1938 law, let the marketplace determine how much anyone was paid.
Basel I was reached in 1988, set minimum capital requirements for banks and is enforced by law in the G-10 countries.
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The 1, 200-page law will include a new provision in the alternative minimum tax, to penalize any investor who claims the dividend benefit.
And in August Mr Sarkozy pushed through a law obliging public-transport workers to negotiate some form of minimum service during a strike.
Congress's foot-dragging last year put many would-be donors in a difficult position: The law required them to take a minimum IRA withdrawal, but they didn't know whether direct donations from an IRA would be allowed for 2012.
The federal minimum wage was last increased in 2009 as part of a three-step phase-in that became law in 2007.
The new anti-corruption law will levy fines ranging from 10 thousand pesos to 2 million pesos in minimum salaries to foreigners or Mexican citizens that engage in corruption or bribes linked to public work contracts.
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Look at what happens in 2015 under current law (that is, assuming all the Bush-era tax cuts and the Alternative Minimum Tax patch expire).
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Those commitments are a beginning, HRW says, but it wants additional steps, including minimum employee standards in line with Qatari law and international labor standards for private contractors involved in World Cup-related construction.
Under the law, firms with 50 or more full-time-equivalent employees will have to provide "minimum essential" and "affordable" coverage, or pay a penalty for each employee in excess of 30 full-time employees.
All Apple hardware comes with a one-year limited commercial warranty, but the company is required under EU law to protect buyers with a minimum of two years protection on all consumer electronics, which includes its iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and iPod devices.
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