legal minimum
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Stodden, 31, is currently campaigning for California to pass a bill that would ban child marriage by making the legal minimum age 18 years old.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
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
It is considering whether to introduce a legal minimum age for social media, alongside limits on features such as autoplay and infinite scrolling, and stronger age checks.
From BBC ● May 29, 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
For example in Holland collective bargaining results into industry minimum wages that are on average at least 10% higher than the legal minimum wage.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus
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