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 Living Wage Foundation says the rate is worth £2,418 more per year than the legal minimum wage in the UK, and £5,050 more in London.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

But 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. 27, 2026

The meeting was scheduled with 24 hours advance notice — the legal minimum.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 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