legal minimum
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While there is no legal minimum temperature, the National Education Union says classrooms should be kept above 18C.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
A test case before a German court could have implications for hundreds of thousands of disabled people in the country who currently work for less than the legal minimum wage.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
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
Among minor differences between the two houses ordained by the constitution was the legal minimum age of their members, that of senators being forty and of deputies twenty-five.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" by Various
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