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
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 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
Regard the legal minimum wage and note that people are not allowed to work below that minimum.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus
