Another article takes a brief look at recent efforts by the Malaysian government to reverse an influx of migrants from Southeast Asia looking for low-wage work.
It's a proposal that would spur a more robust economic recovery, create jobs and start to address the widespread and growing problem of low-wage work in America.
An internship isn't a substitute for minimum-wage work.
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The truth is that most drivers barely make minimum wage and work twelve hour shifts to do so.
Part and parcel of this has been the offshoring of low wage assembly work like the electronics to China, textiles to Bangladesh and Cambodia.
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The government has fixed a minimum wage for temporary work, to stop eastern undercutting.
Under 5% of the US wage earners make the minimum wage or less, which means that since wage earners only represent a bit over half the total work force (the rest are paid a fixed salary), those who earn the minimum wage make up less than 3% of the total work force.
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The future is already here and it brings with it low-wage temporary or contract work as a way of life.
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While ruling out "a complete free-for-all" on public sector pay, the authors claim greater flexibility in wage rates would improve work standards.
Often they do that in a shadow economy -- a place where employers may offer them less than the minimum wage or make them work overtime without extra pay.
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Even if we restrict ourselves only to those US based workers there are a quarter of a million people who are unemployed at minimum wage but who are entirely happy, eager even, to work for less than minimum wage.
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Forcible interventions into immigration were really just forcible interventions into the labor market designed to restrict wage competition, just like unionism, just like mandated 30-hour work weeks or forced retirement or wage floors.
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This particular forum highlighted the unique flexibility needs of low wage workers to manage their work and life.
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Again, no one is doing that sort of work for minimum wage without there being a commission system on top.
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So, in effect, at the incomes - if they work in minimum wage or near minimum wage - they're in effect uninsured, even though they have insurance.
On both sides of the Atlantic, I know plenty of people who are in my position - successful wage earners thrown out of work for the apostasy of turning 50.
Social Security makes assumptions based on your continuing to work at your current wage level.
Rival firms will, after all, struggle to tempt a worker earning 80% of a full-time wage for 50% of the work.
Demand Three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment and a twenty dollar hourly minimum wage for those who choose to work.
Some 42m poor households toil for a government scheme that guarantees them up to 100 days of work at the minimum wage each year.
Her teachers work at a starting wage of 500 yuan per month, and the pupils pay 300 yuan per term, if they can afford to.
Dennis Phillips, the academy's welfare manager, said all prisoners eligible for paid work received the minimum wage, with bonuses, while others received the weekly prison wage.
His proposals made sense: a commission on voting rights, protection of military families gay and straight, gun control measures, equal pay for equal work, increased minimum wage, and immigration reform.
In areas where New Labour has nodded in Old Labour directions, such as fairness at work and the minimum wage, he has upset the unions by minimising any impact on the freedom of bosses to hire and fire.
No, really: if you work 25 hours a week on the minimum wage then your marginal tax rate is, without even considering any reduction in in work benefits, over 40% when you include both income tax and national insurance.
On the issue of the janitors, it is -- if you work for an hourly wage, and you earn overtime, and you depend on that overtime to make ends meet, it is simply a fact that a reduction in overtime is a reduction in your pay.
She said anyone with queries about the national minimum wage could call a free pay and work rights helpline.
It helped lay the cornerstones of middle class security, from the 40-hour work week and the minimum wage to family leave and pensions.
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