Article: Minimum wage gets welcome; New law comes into force today.(News)

Article: SEN. KLOBUCHAR ISSUES STATEMENT ON MINIMUM WAGE AS ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 24, 2007 ;     342 words ... ... Celebrating the Democratic Congress' achievement of increasing the minimum wage, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) joined over - House members ... the following statement following today's event: "The minimum wage is about helping working families - it is fair, it is smart ...

Article: Minimum wage on the cards for hospitality staff; ...
Cape Argus (South Africa);  May 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Labour is introducing a minimum wage for the hospitality industry ... pay their employees a minimum wage of R1 400 a month while ... month higher than the minimum wage for domestic workers ... unemployment. As to how the new law pertained to waiters ...

Article: Staying legal in '06: new law adds flex time for ...
Los Angeles Business Journal;  January 2, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... There's also a new law requiting cosmetics ... as increasing the minimum wage or new health care ... to increase the minimum wage. Labor groups are readying a minimum wage initiative to negate ... Schwarzenegger veto. The new law with arguably the ...

Article: NOT MANY TAKERS ON NEW LAW FEW FIRMS PAY LESS THAN ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  December 31, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... teenagers at less than the federal minimum wage of $3.80 an hour, few companies ... President Bush attached to the sub- minimum wage. When Congress passed a bill last year that raised the minimum wage to $3.80 on April 1, 1990, and ...

Article: SUIT CONTESTS CITY'S MINIMUM WAGE COALITION OF ...
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  December 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Friday seeking to overturn Madison's new minimum wage law. The lawsuit filed in Dane County Circuit ... municipality, has the authority to set the minimum wage. "The Madison minimum wage is illegal," said James Buchen, vice president ...

Article: MINIMUM WAGE PLAN FOR WELFARE DRAWS FIRE GOVERNORS ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 17, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... by requiring them to pay the federal minimum wage to aid recipients forced into public ... Standards Act and are entitled to a federal minimum wage of $4.75 per hour. ``Work should ... enrolled in such workfare programs from the minimum wage, but last's year measure did not ...

Article: Minimum wage - does anyone care anymore?
The Mississippi Business Journal;  June 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... the impact of increasing the minimum wage in Mississippi back in 2006 ... Mississippians were paid at or below minimum wage before the new law was enacted. Numbers from the ... steady (2.6 percent below minimum wage; 0.4 percent at minimum wage ...