minimum wage rate

To find out the current minimum wage rates follow the link below.

It is also one of the most complicated systems with more than 1200 minimum wage rates.

See our regulation update: increase in the national minimum wage rate.

The minimum wage rate may be increased annually based upon changes in the cost of living index increase.

Fourteen states and a number of cities have set their own minimum wage rates that are higher than the federal level.

Instead the state adopts the Federal minimum wage rate by reference.

There are different minimum wage rates for workers in different age groups.

Puerto Rico also has minimum wage rates that vary according to the industry.

Unemployed men wait on the streets in the hope of casual labour, paid below minimum wage rates.

Minimum wage rates were considered sufficient to provide a worker and family with a decent standard of living.

Payment of wages below the minimum wage rate amounts to forced labour.

Farming: the various agricultural minimum wage rates will increase.

Note: Where Federal and state law have different minimum wage rates, the higher standard applies.

The submininum would be $3.35 an hour beginning next April 1, and 85 percent of the regular minimum wage rate thereafter.

Minimum wage rates enacted in this country were originally higher for men than for women.

Barceló helped to establish the minimum wage rate, workers' compensation and limited working hours.

Instead the state law authorizes the adoption of the Federal minimum wage rate via administrative action.

The state minimum wage rate requirements, or lack thereof, are controlled by legislative activities within the individual states.

Hence, there is no single uniform minimum wage rate across the country and the structure has become overtly complex.

These two factors combined give the employer the capacity to offer employment at wages below the minimum wage rate.

The minimum wage rates are reviewed every year.

For example, suppose one wishes to find if the minimum wage rate affects firms' decisions on how much labor to hire.

The Labour Department decides to make revisions in minimum wage rates mandatory within 3 years.

For apprentices, see the page in this guide on apprentices' entitlement to the national minimum wage rate.

American Samoa has special minimum wage rates.