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
The legal minimum wage will rise to £12.71 an hour in April 2026.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
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
In Indonesian law, the legal minimum age for marriage is 19 — but many religious unions escape government scrutiny and involve underage brides.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024
Among minor differences between the two houses ordained by the constitution was the legal minimum age of their members, that of senators being forty and of deputies twenty-five.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
