legal minimum

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For hourly workers, employees and employers could agree to reduce the worker’s base wage to their state’s legal minimum and make up any difference in compensation through extra hours of fake “overtime.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

In the interim, the state and local governments must act decisively to enforce the existing wage floor, ensuring employers cannot use expanded housing deductions to push workers’ pay below the legal minimum.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

The placements will be rolled out in six parts of the UK with high youth unemployment and will be "fully subsidised" for 25 hours a week, paid at the legal minimum wage.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2025

The legal minimum wage for over-21s is to rise 4.1% in April, from £12.21 to £12.71 per hour, with the wage for 18 to 20-year-olds rising from £10 to £10.85.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

It enables wages boards to establish a legal minimum wage in scheduled industries which will undoubtedly grow in number.

From Liberalism by Hobhouse, L. T. (Leonard Trelawny)