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
In 2024, the firm faced a backlash after revealing it would no longer hire new staff on the real living wage, instead paying the lower legal minimum wage.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
Mrs Willgoose said she was glad the killer's minimum term had been raised above the legal minimum, which would have been 15 years.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025
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
