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 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

He cited a rise to the legal minimum wage, announced at October's Budget, as an example of how ministers were boosting living standards.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024

For example, the Dutch legal minimum wage holds for fulltimers, but does not hold for parttimers.

From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Colignatus, Thomas