You may recall the minimum wage study commission convened by President Carter.
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In 1977 Congress established the Minimum Wage Study Commission.
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The campaign said that in the same way that the Low Pay Commission was set up in 1997 to advise on the minimum wage, a High Pay Commission was needed to introduce "a wide-ranging review" of pay at the top and bring in new measures to curb excessive remuneration.
Again, no one is doing that sort of work for minimum wage without there being a commission system on top.
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Firms may be reluctant to create jobs by recruiting inexperienced staff because they are put off by the increased wage bill, the Low Pay Commission has suggested.
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This year, the commission recommended a substantial wage increase amounting to some 110 billion rupees, but also decided to slash the size of the bureaucracy by 30% in stages: some 350, 000 posts currently vacant would be immediately abolished, overtime would cease, the working week would increase from five to six days, and casual leave would be cut from 12 days a year to eight.
The task is to make the minimum wage "part of the furniture" in the UK. The Low Pay Commission should consider when it would be right to recommend an uprating in the minimum wage to ensure that it retains its value.
The latest setting for minimum wage levels mirrors recommendations from the Low Pay Commission.
One noted by the Low Pay Commission in the UK (the body that actually sets the UK minimum wage) estimated 30, 000 jobs lost as a result.
The rebels agreed to back the measure only after the government promised to ask a new commission on health and pension reform to extend its recommendations to ways of bringing down non-wage labour costs.
Chairman of the Low Pay Commission Adair Turner said employment had continued to increase in most of those sectors most affected by the minimum wage.
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