Article: Minimum Wage Fairness Act Introduced in House by Rep. Issa

Article: SEN. ISAKSON VOICES DISAPPOINTMENT AT SENATE'S FAILURE TO ADDRESS ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 22, 2006 ;     452 words ... ... they utilize H-2A workers the higher of the applicable minimum wage rate, the prevailing wage rate or the adverse effect wage ... workers in agriculture be paid the higher of the applicable minimum wage and the prevailing wage rate, as determined by the Department ...

Article: SEN. CHAMBLISS AMENDMENT ADDRESSES WAGE FAIRNESS ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 22, 2006 ;     634 words ... ... to use that same workforce, which is legalized through the immigration reform bill, will only be bound by the applicable minimum wage. The Chambliss wage amendment will provide additional worker protections for all agricultural workers, including those ...

Article: NDP Key Commitment: Raise Minimum Wage, Roll Back ...
CCNMatthews Newswire;  September 13, 2007 ;     468 words ... ... commitment is raising the minimum wage to $10 an hour and ... McGuinty's unfair minimum wage of $8 an hour continues ... At the current minimum wage, a woman living in ... will keep fighting for wage fairness for working families ...

Article: REP. WELDON: PELOSI EARMARK HIDDEN IN MINIMUM WAGE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 11, 2007 ;     456 words ... ... reports today that the minimum wage bill approved by the ... call for universal wage fairness, their bill exempted ... to pay the federal minimum wage, but it also gets ... and * H.R. 2, the minimum wage bill, we now know ...

Article: Minimum wage hike proposed
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Bergen County, NJ) 12-22-2007 Minimum wage hike proposed -- Rate of $8.25 would ... Editions New Jersey would have the highest minimum wage in the nation if the $1.10 increase ... authorized study commission becomes law. The Minimum Wage Advisory Commission released a report ...

Article: Minimum wage increase gains strength nationally
Call & Post;  July 27, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Advocates for an increase in the Ohio minimum wage now have a little more than two weeks ... finding the signatures to raise Ohio's minimum wage to $6.85 per hour, and index it ... alone, eight states have raised the minimum wage. Some are not surprising, such as ...

Article: Minimum wage - does anyone care anymore?
The Mississippi Business Journal;  June 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... President George W. Bush signed the Fair Minimum Wage Act, which amended the Fair Labor Standards ... incremental increase in the national minimum wage, emotions ran high. Some Mississippians ... took up the debate of crafting a state minimum wage law. The national minimum ...