Minimum wage laws prevent employers from taking advantage of low-quality labor at low prices.
For example, labor unions typically oppose immigration, while supporting minimum wage laws, which exacerbate minority unemployment.
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Many countries have minimum wage laws, and some have historically relied on binding collective bargaining, rather than legislation.
Most of these blue states also have super-minimum wage laws that price low-income workers out of the job market.
Minimum wage laws harm the very workers they are intended to help.
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It can be beneficial to understand the origins of minimum wage laws.
Federal minimum wage laws have been around for over a hundred years.
It amazes and disgusts me how unscrupulous and unethical companies are able to get around the minimum wage laws by paying piecework like this.
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We have an abundance of laws on discrimination, hiring, union rules, minimum wage laws, and now health care which penalize and put a real and potential cost on every new hire.
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More to the point, if the employers are able to negotiate to hire more workers at a lower salary that will be more expansionary than if union contracts, minimum wage laws or social convention leads them to hire fewer workers at higher salaries.
The high rate of unemployment in the United States is due primarily to structural problems, high marginal tax rates, minimum wage laws, the extension of unemployment benefits, the high cost of employer-provided health benefits, and uncertainty regarding future fiscal rules and regulations.
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Along with repealing minimum-wage laws Congress can lighten the load by repealing all payroll taxes on both employees and employers for anyone making less than the current minimum wage.
But stiff minimum-wage laws and other regulations have been chopping off the bottom rungs of the ladder and U.S. unemployment seems stuck at a high level, so American mobility may also take a hit.
Finally, what of the argument that the new global economy makes it impossible for governments to mandate social protection, such as minimum-wage laws, rules on working hours, health-and-safety standards in the workplace, and so forth.
In 1938, when Congress enacted the original minimum wage and overtime laws, they excluded domestic workers.
That's how we've made possible scientific research that has led to medical breakthroughs like the vaccine for Hepatitis B, and technological wonders like GPS. That's how we have Social Security and a minimum wage, and laws to protect the food we eat and the water we drink and the air that we breathe.
We instituted a minimum wage and worker safety laws -- together.
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It recently passed laws raising the minimum wage and requiring large employers such as Wal-Mart to pay higher employee health care insurance costs.
Thailand, and Singapore approved measures to give domestic workers a weekly day off, while Venezuela and the Philippines adopted broad laws for domestic workers ensuring a minimum wage, paid holidays, and limits to their working hours.
So many things we take for granted came about because of the union movement -- minimum wage, 40-hour workweek, child labor laws -- you name it -- weekends -- a lot of these things came about because people were fighting for them.
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The rare Republican rebellion Tuesday coincides with a notable shift to the left by Mr. Cuomo, who is advocating a minimum-wage increase and a package of women's rights laws this year in addition to the new firearms restrictions passed last month.
He used the phrase "common ground" repeatedly, speaking of potential agreement on a higher minimum wage (if paired with tax cuts for small businesses) and seeing prospects for sweeping change in immigration laws and the management of Social Security.
One of the highest priorities at the U.S. Labor Department is to identify situations in which workers are erroneously considered not to be employees or other covered individuals for purposes of complying with minimum-wage, overtime, and recordkeeping requirements and child-labor restrictions of the FLSA and similar federal wage laws it enforces.
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