Indeed, apprentices should be compensated at least at the minimum wage rate in a given occupation.

Minimum Wage or Living Income?

For calculating the annual wage, the lowest general minimum wage was used.

For Americans earning minimum wage ( 7.25 per hour), time spent driving at a rate of 30 miles (48 kilometers) per hour costs 0.24 per mile.

Determination of the minimum wage is not connected to the value of the consumer's shopping basket, which, to our knowledge, is much higher than the minimum wage.

Unfortunately, harmonization would probably apply to wage replacement payments, implying uniform minimum wage constraints for EU countries.

ABR Available bit rate a minimum guaranteed rate is specified.

But Bangladesh s government is considering an increase in the minimum wage.

The first option is to defend the wages of the low skilled through minimum wage laws or paying social replacement incomes which imply minimum wage demands against the private economy.

It was below the minimum wage, OK? And this is well documented.

Beijing s municipal authorities have preemptively boosted the city s minimum wage by 20 .

China s government introduced tough labor laws and a minimum wage in 2008.

Since June 2011, the minimum wage in Croatia is 2,814 kuna ( 380 euro).

Its measures, which include a decrease of the hourly minimum wage to US 4.24 (about 3 less than the US federal minimum wage), have galvanized people to organize daily civil disobedience events and camps.

At the same time, there have been efforts to raise the level of earned income by setting minimum wage legislation. But the minimum wage has never reached the floor set for a living income and has not, therefore, appreciably reduced the bill for wage subsidies.

For the less qualified in Western Europe, a decrease in employment will be inevitable, because the scope for wage fluctuation is limited by collective agreements and by the minimum wage levels that the welfare state sets through wage replacement benefits and legal minimum wages.

Shenzhen, to head off trouble, has announced a 16 increase in the minimum wage.

It is estimated that in 2005, about 21,900 Nova Scotians work for minimum wage.

It was not enough to raise the national minimum wage periodically a reformulation of the wage structures in female dominated professions was needed.

While the previous minimum wage differed for youth under 16 years of age and workers in off road communities, the new minimum wage is the same for everyone regardless of their age or location of work.

(f) A minimum assessment rate of 0.001 per cent

(f) A minimum assessment rate of 0.001 per cent

In June 2004, the minimum wage in Nova Scotia was increased to 6.50 per hour.

The minimum wage in the Northwest Territories increased, in December 2003, from  6.50 to 8.25.

In 2004 half of the minimum monthly wage established by the Government was 1240 EEK.

This includes changing the informal nature of the work and ensuring a minimum wage payment.

Noting that section 106 occurs in a section of the Labour Act entitled Minimum wage , the Committee also asked the Government to confirm that section 106 covered not only the minimum wage but any wages earned by workers.

But the minimum wage is normally much lower than the effective wage, and thus has not changed the fundamental relationship between wages and labor productivity.

To hire and retain skilled workers, many foreign invested enterprises routinely pay above the minimum wage.

According to the 12th Five Year Plan, the minimum wage should grow by 13 per year.

The hurdle rate is the minimum acceptable return on an investment i.e., the project appropriate discount rate.

Minimum wage laws and labor agreements often make the least productive workers unaffordable to law abiding employers.

In Europe, they are excluded from employment by labor agreements and in some cases by minimum wage laws.

The Human Province asks how an issue like raising the minimum wage should become an excuse for street fight

Most do not ask for their legal working hours, work extreme hours and are paid below the minimum wage.

The Committee urges the State party to continue to take necessary measures to ensure that the minimum wage enables workers and their families to enjoy an adequate standard of living and that the minimum wage standard is effectively enforced, particularly in rural areas and in western areas.

Middle income, low price wage countries would grow faster with a higher inflation rate.

The minimum number of school days was once 170, but after a new teachers' wage contract, it increased to 180.

The centrepiece of the budget was an increase in the official minimum monthly wage to CFP110,000 (around 1,200) from CFP100,000.

On 2 May, Cairo was set to witness a nationwide workers strike to demand an increase in the national minimum wage.

In many cases, employers in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not able to pay even the minimum wage, i.e. the guaranteed salary.

Eighty per cent of detainees were being paid close to the minimum wage for doing useful work while serving their sentences.

In 2003, the government introduced an initiative to raise the general minimum wage from  6.75 to 8.00 per hour over four years.

Further increases will take effect in February 2006 and 2007, raising the general minimum wage to 7.75 and 8.00 per hour respectively.

When employing full time an unemployed pregnant woman or a person raising a child under six years old, the employer has the right to a labour market subsidy in the amount of the minimum monthly wage in the first six months, and half of the minimum monthly wage in the following six months.