"wage" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There is evidence that living wage ordinances modestly reduce the poverty rates in locations in which these ordinances are enacted.
- As of 2003, there are 122 living wage ordinances in American cities and an additional 75 under discussion.
- Closing loopholes in San Francisco's prevailing wage ordinance for low-paid workers like janitors.
- Mayor Riordan said, however, that he agreed with supporters of the wage ordinance that income inequality had increased in part because of the decline in union bargaining power.
- And most of the wage ordinances of the past decade specifically trace their origins back to Baltimore, in 1995.
- Fifty cities and counties have already passed living wage ordinances.
- A state district judge approved a new wage ordinance for workers in Santa Fe.
- When the San Jose City Council was debating the wage ordinance Ms. Dean, all 5-feet-3 of her, came on like a petite field marshal.
- Living wage ordinances require private businesses that do business with the government to pay their workers a wage that enables them to afford basic necessities.
- Another device to increase wages, living wage ordinances, generally apply only to businesses that are under contract to the local government itself.
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