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| The Low-Wage Labor Market: Challenges and Opportunities for Economic Self-Sufficiency By Mark D. Turner The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that mandated a federal minimum wage was adopted; by the Congress in 1938. Since then, the federal minimum wage has been increased 19 times, from .25 cents per hour in 1938 to $5.15 in 1997. No employer may legally pay, in industries and occupations the FLSA currently covers, less than $5.15 per hour. In 1996, 79.4 million wage and salary workers, 64.9 percent of all workers, were covered by the FLSA. Minimum Wage |
| MINIMUM WAGE *************************************************** Minimum Wage: The minimum dollar amount that an employer who deals in inter state trade has to pay its employee's by law through the Federal Wage and Earning Act. |
| Minimum Wage And Overtime Compensation Law: A Primer On Federal And State Requirements May 2, 2000 By Virginia M. McInerney Understanding minimum wage laws can be challenging. Confusion results because both federal and state laws govern. People often confuse minimum wage laws with other provisions that govern or influence working conditions. For Example, child labor laws restrict the number of hours minors may work and require employers to give minors breaks. However, many employers have adopted the common practice of allowing all employees to take breaks. These practices lead people to assume there must be a law that restricts work hours and requires breaks for all employees generally. But contrary to this common perception, the minimum wage law does not restrict work hours or require breaks for adult employees. MinimumWage |
| Minimum Wage & The Impoverished Masses By Natalie J. Purcell for Demockery.org In our quest to standup for the oppressed or to trumpet the views of the left, do we sometimes allow emotion to cloud out fact? Are the solutions that we propose the best solutions? What can we learn from the works of our opponents? The topic of minimum wage legislation -- long championed by the heroes of the workingman -- may be one area in which bias creeps into our preception. How many of us, knowing little about economics, nonetheless whol-heartedly believe that governmentally mandated minimum wages are good for the poor? To what degree can they be impoved? This essay seeks to tackle a few of these questions. Demockery.org |
| Minimum Wage Law Requirements The federal Fair Labor Standards Act Requires, among other things, that a minimum wage be established, and that all nonexempt employees be paid that minimum wage. As of October 1, 1997, the minimum wage is $5.15 per hour (previously the minimum was $4.75 per hour). This rate be paid to all nonexempt employees for each hour worked up to and including 40 hours in a colander workweek. Any time be yond 40 hours must be paid as time-and-a half overtime, which works or to a current minimum of $7.75 per hour. amsouth.com |
| The Minimum Wage Once Again By Walter Block There is a great cognitive dissonance between what is commonly taught in economics and what passes for sound public policy analysis within the beltway of Washington D.C. Nowhere is a more stark example of this to be found than in the case of the minimum wage law. Many students know that a minimum wage law exacerbates unemployment, particularly for low skilled, youthful, and minority males. Card and Krueger (1994, p. 792) even characterize this claim as "the central prediction of the textbook model of the minimum wage," but attempt to undermine it their article. Minimum Wage |
| U.S. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration Wage and Hour Division Minimum Wage Laws in The States dol.gov |
| Minimum Wage Minimum Wage Rates and Requirements The minimum wage was enacted in 1938 as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The first minimum wage was .25 and hour. This has increased over the years and the current federal minimum wage is $5.15 an hour. Despite the increases, the Coalition on Human Needs notes that the buying power of the federal minimum wage has declined by nearly 25 percent over the last 20 years. Jobsearch.about.com |
| Why the Minimum Wage Law Causes Unemployment A wage is simply a special type of price, specifically the price of labor services. The most universally accepted proposition in economics is the Law of Demand. When other things are held constant, if prices go up, buyers will buy less. Thus labor becomes more expensive, employers will hire fewer workers. That is because some workers who would have been profitable to hire become unprofitable. |
| 50 Years of research on the Minimum Wage For many years it has been a matter of conventional wisdom among economists that the minimum wage causes fewer jobs to exist than would be the case without it. This is simply a matter of price theory, taught in every economics textbook, requiring no elaborate analysis to justify. Were this not the case, there would be no logical reason why the minimum wage could not be set at $10, $100, or $1 million per hour. JointEconomicCommittee |
| Bad Solution for the Wrong Problem... How Forcing up the Minimum Wage Hurts Those Who Need Help Most My name is Herman Cain. I am President of Godfather's Pizza, Inc., a 525-unit pizza restaurant chain headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. I am also President of the National Restaurant Association. There are nearly 740,000 food service units in this country, including everything from fast-food chains to fine-dining restaurants. We are an industry dominated by small businesses, and we employ a diverse workforce of over nine million people. Our employees are white, African-American, Hispanic American, Asian American, and more. We expect to employ 12.5 million by the year 2005, with the fastest growth coming in the category of food service managers. More than 30 Percent of Americans under age 35 had their first job in the restaurant industry. Restaurants offer an important boost into the job market for millions, as well as a clearly defined career path for those willing to work hard and stay in the business. TheAmericanEnterprise.org |
| Minimum Wage & Overtime Pay Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (29 USC 201 et seq. 29 CFR 510-794) Who is covered: The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes standards for minimum wages, overtime pay, record-keeping, child labor. These standards affect more than 100 million workers, both full-time and part-time, in the public sectors. U.S. DepartmentofLabor |
| Real-Life Stakes of Boosting America’s Minimum Wage by Ann Scott Tyson November 8, 1999 In a dim Washington restaurant lit by hanging sombrero lamps, Ramon Moz waits tables for up to 12 hours a day for a wage of $2.77 an hour plus tips. When customers crowd in, Mr. Moz can earn enough to help put food on the table of his parents, impoverished corn farmers in El Salvador, and foot some school bills for his eight siblings. TheChristianScrienceMonitor |
| Without Regular Increases the Value of the Minimum Wage Falls Sometimes a picture says a thousands words. Check out these charts to learn more about the Minimum wage. AFL-CIO |
| U.S. Department of Labor Minimum Wage Laws in the States DOL.gov |
| Who Really Benefits From A Minimum Wage Hike? The average family income of Missouri employees who would 'benefit' from Senator Kennedy’s proposed minimum wage hike: $45,416. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, fully 92% of Missouri employees whose wages would be increased by the proposed minimum wage hike either live with their parents or another relative, live alone, or have a working spouse. Just 8% are sole earners in families with children, and each of these sole earners has access to supplemental income through Earned Income Tax Credit. EmploymentPolicesInstitute |
| Wishing for a Raise April 22, 2003 Not too long ago, my mountain-town newspaper editorialized that, since all serious economists have dropped their objections to government-mandated minimum wages, Congress ought to go ahead and add a dollar or two to the hourly take-home pay of bag boys and burger-flippers. I did a double take, wondering if I'd dozed through the repeal of a few fundamental laws of economics. Had legislating prosperity really turned out to be so easy after all? FreeMarketnet |
| Employment Relationship Checklists The following checklists are designed to assist organizers and workers when confronted with a minimum wage or overtime violation in a sub contraction or independent contractor employment situation. In these instances it is sometimes unclear who employs the worker, and it is sometimes unclear whether the worker is an employee. National Employment Law Project |
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