NOUN
- the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay; determined by contract or by law
How To Use minimum wage In A Sentence
- Employers and business groups contend that a higher minimum wage would saddle them with higher labor costs.
- They will block further tax cuts, except modest breaks for small businesses to ease the burden of a minimum wage increase.
- There are no jobs hiding away in corners, and what jobs there are when you've got little experience and no qualifications are short term minimum wage jobs that may well see you off the dole for a few months before being dumped back. The Guardian World News
- The reason that the minimum wage is problematic is that it is also self-limiting, only because companies can't pay employees less than the minimum wage, what generally gets limited is the number of jobs.
- The minimum wage is nowhere near enough. Times, Sunday Times
- Think of the good done - the minimum wages, the new deals and other sops to middle class consciences, they plead.
- As an international vulgate institution of labor and social security, minimum wage is disputed after its birth.
- All local governments should conduct a general survey of compliance with the minimum wage system and minimum wage standards for part-time workers.
- Once you were hired as a part time minimum wage earner, that is where you stayed. Power Line on the Minimum Wage
- Politically, raising the minimum wage is good for the Democrats.
