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

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 Living Wage Foundation said wage was worth £2,262 more per year in the UK than the legal minimum pay, and £4,700 more in London.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

It enables wages boards to establish a legal minimum wage in scheduled industries which will undoubtedly grow in number.

From Liberalism by Hobhouse, L. T. (Leonard Trelawny)