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

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

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

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