legal minimum
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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
Mrs Willgoose said she was glad the killer's minimum term had been raised above the legal minimum, which would have been 15 years.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025
He cited a rise to the legal minimum wage, announced at October's Budget, as an example of how ministers were boosting living standards.
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024
The meeting was scheduled with 24 hours’ advance notice — the legal minimum.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024
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
