Because the relationship between being a low-wage worker and living in a poor family is remarkably weak.
In fact, every dollar a minimum wage worker receives comes out of the pocket of a customer in the same area, so there is no gain in spending potential.
In addition, when deciding which low-wage worker to retain following a minimum wage increase, employers may opt for a teenager, who may have high potential, over an adult who, because he still earns a low wage, likely has much lower potential.
We instituted a minimum wage and worker safety laws -- together.
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Bangladesh last increased its minimum garment-worker wage in late 2010, almost doubling the lowest pay.
The campaign is pushing car-wash owners to sign accords that guarantee minimum wage, ensure worker safety and give meal and rest breaks.
The government can promise a higher wage rate, but if a worker loses her job, her income (hourly wage x hours worked) will be zero.
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Interestingly, unemployment is a category where rich countries, with their high levels of wage insurance and stronger worker protections, tend to experience larger problems after financial crises than do emerging markets.
Raising the minimum wage raises the hurdle a worker must cross to justify being hired.
And then they'll come in and when they're here, they're promised a wage, which is minimum wage because under the guest worker program you have to meet that.
While the homes Pulte is building are some of the least expensive in Latin America, buyers still, he says, need a mortgage if they are to afford them on a worker's wage.
Many cases come down to one tiny detail with huge consequences: whether the worker is exempt from wage and hour laws or non-exempt.
By limiting the subsidy to a quarter of the drop in a worker's hourly wage, Mr Kling makes sure no one is rewarded for simply putting in fewer hours.
And if you're a small business that's willing to make the investment in hiring a new worker or expanding your wage base, you'll benefit from the tax cut that the President is pushing Congress to pass this week.
They achieved important social gains in terms of worker health and safety, wage equity and skills development.
In the summer of 2001, a few members of the non-unionized workforce asked management for information about the wage per hour earned by the average worker.
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At the time, the average female worker earned just 60 percent of the wage compared to their male co-workers.
Its collapse has heightened criticism that Western retailers, which have flocked to Bangladesh for its low-wage apparel industry, should do more to monitor worker safety in plants that manufacture their brands.
The minimum wage has put a sense of equality back into a worker's relationship with their employer.
You will be required to post a notice for 10 business days in a conspicuous place at the job site listing the offered wage and your intention to hire a H-1B worker.
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An employed, low-skilled worker who keeps his job earns a slightly higher wage.
Rival firms will, after all, struggle to tempt a worker earning 80% of a full-time wage for 50% of the work.
In the next few years, wage and benefits will increase 15% to 20% per worker at the average Chinese factory, according to the research.
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"We've had discussions about what we could do to deal with that, to ensure that no foreign worker should take a job at less than minimum wage and be exploited and force down people's wages".
You will be required to maintain a Public Access File, to be produced upon request to the USDOL or any interested person, containing information including how you determined the offered wage and what benefits will be offered to the H-1B worker.
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Second, this wage figure ignores the rise over the past few decades in the portion of worker pay taken as (nontaxable) fringe benefits.
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However, one 23-year-old care worker told the BBC News website that life was tough financially - even when on the living wage.
Ford was able to afford this higher wage not because he was less greedy but because he figured out how to get more output from each worker.
The U.S. employer must pay the H-1B worker the greater of the actual compensation paid other employees in the same job or the prevailing wage for that occupation.
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